About 7,900 state workers' compensation employees were furloughed illegally by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year and are entitled to $25 million in back pay, a state appeals court ruled Friday.
A state law that exempts employees of the State Compensation Insurance Fund from hiring freezes and staff cutbacks also prohibits Schwarzenegger from cutting their workweeks, said the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco.
The court endorsed a ruling in March by another appellate panel that found Schwarzenegger acted illegally when he furloughed about 500 lawyers and hearing officers employed by the same insurance fund. Friday's ruling applies to all the fund's employees.
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