Judge orders state employees back to work
Published: Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 11:31 am
Last Modified: Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 11:40 am
An Alameda County judge has ordered furloughed state employees in nearly 70 departments to return to a regular work schedule next month, but he spared the state from immediately paying hundreds of millions of dollars in back pay while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeals the ruling.
Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the state's largest civil service union, figures Roesch's decision affects about 53,000 of its 95,000 members.
Judge Frank Roesch's decision this morning underscored his Dec. 31 ruling that Schwarzenegger should not have furloughed
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