January 16, 2010
Ruling halts California prison pay tied to furloughs
An appeals court handed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a furlough lawsuit win Friday over Controller John Chiang and the union representing the state's correctional officers – at least for now.
The ruling by San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal temporarily keeps Chiang from restoring the state's 30,000 prison officers and their immediate supervisors to full pay for the time that they work.
The controller had said he would eliminate a pay reduction imposed on the guards in keeping with an Alameda judge's decision in December that so-called "self-directed" furloughs at prisons violate labor law. Such furloughs allow the state to cut workers' pay but defer the time off…
LINK - SacBee.com
