California Supreme Court,
Labor/Employment
Dec. 6, 2018
Public employee pensions were unconstitutionally curtailed, attorney argues
In oral arguments, attorneys offered competing ideas of deferred compensation, vested contractual rights, and the power of lawmakers to alter state pensions.
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LOS ANGELES -- An attorney representing firefighters and their union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that his clients were unconstitutionally deprived by a state law of the ability to purchase extra pension service time.
The benefit allowed certain public employees, after five years of service, to purchase up to five years of "airtime" that would be counted toward their eventual pension.
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