As you may have seen today, SEIU Local 1000 reached an agreement with the Brown Administration to settle lingering lawsuits challenging the furloughs imposed by former Governor Schwarzenegger on non-general fund agencies in 2009 and 2010.
The settlement affects only SEIU members in agencies that receive no appropriations from the state’s General Fund, specifically:
- First 5 California
- Prison Industry Authority
- California Earthquake Authority
- California Housing Finance Agency
- California State Lottery
The affected employees will receive back pay, with interest, for the days they were forced to take off without pay.
Now that precedent has been established, your ACSS will be petitioning DPA to provide a similar adjustment for the eligible excluded employees in the non-general fund agencies.
UPDATE: Though the Sacramento Bee initially reported that the impacted employees would receive back pay with interest, the Bee has since corrected their story, indicating that the agreement will not include interest.
UPDATE #2: The Sacramento Bee also stated that the Office of Administrative Hearings was one of the affected agencies. This is incorrect. The fifth impacted agency is California State Lottery.