Roberti Named to State Jobless Insurance Panel
Recently retired state Sen. David A. Roberti (D-Van Nuys) has been appointed by the Senate Rules Committee to a four-year term on the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board at an annual salary of $97,000.
The committee met in private Monday to make the appointment of the veteran lawmaker.
Chairman Bill Lockyer (D-Hayward), who succeeded Roberti as Senate leader this year, said the vote was 4 to 0. Newly appointed committee member Sen. John Lewis (R-Orange) said he abstained because he did not have time to discuss the Roberti appointment with fellow Republicans.
It became known last week that Roberti was in line for appointment to the insurance panel, which hears appeals from workers who maintain that they were wrongfully denied unemployment benefits.
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