Judge Prevents Wilson’s Pay Cut for State Employees
A Superior Court judge issued a temporary stay Friday that will keep the Wilson Administration from unilaterally imposing 5% pay cuts on state employees.
Judge James T. Ford, ruling on a petition filed by lawyers for 4,800 California Highway Patrol officers and 1,800 state scientists, said the law appears to require Gov. Pete Wilson to get legislative approval before acting to cut the pay of the state workers.
The Administration, which had declared an impasse with the California Assn. of Highway Patrolmen and the California Assn. of Professional Scientists, had been operating on the assumption that the state’s collective bargaining law allowed it to act to cut the pay once bargaining procedures were exhausted.
Administration lawyers said they would continue to press for the authority to impose the cuts.
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