Labor/Employment
May 2, 2014
Judge's ruling hands unions unexpected setback
According to a judge's ruling, certain pension practices that the unions sought to keep - such as counting vacation time as part of their last paycheck to drive up the value of their pensions - were never legal to begin with.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
When a group of Contra Costa County firefighters' and sheriff's deputies' unions sued to keep their pension system safe from Gov. Jerry Brown's reforms in 2012, they expected a certain kind of fight.
They planned to argue that AB 197 took away their guaranteed rights to higher pension payments. But the ensuing trial court case took them in a completely different direction. The attorne...
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