Calif. Sch. Employees Assn. v. Santee Sch. Dist.

California Court of Appeal Mar 16, 1982 No. 22394Published

Before: Cologne

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Holding. Classified school employees who are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding a holiday are entitled to compensation for that holiday, regardless of whether the holiday falls within their normal workweek.

Issues

Whether classified school employees are entitled to holiday pay if they are in a paid status on the day before or after the holiday but outside their normal workweek.
Whether the failure to file individual grievances bars the claims of classified school employees for holiday pay.

Disposition. reversed

Quotations verified verbatim against the opinion

“The language of this section is unambiguous and requires no search for legislative intent to tell us when the employee works the day immediately preceding or succeeding the holidays for pay, he or she is entitled to compensation for that holiday.”

129 Cal.App.3d 785 (1982) 181 Cal. Rptr. 1 CALIFORNIA SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and Appellant,

SANTEE SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant and Respondent.

Docket No. 22394. Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

March 16, 1982. [786] COUNSEL

Peter A. Janiak, Madalyn J. Frazzini, E. Luis Saenz, Maureen C. Whelan and Siona D. Windsor for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Donald L. Clark, County Counsel, and Anthony Albers, Chief Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

COLOGNE, J.

This action by California School Employees Association (CSEA) was instituted on behalf of certain classified school employees[1] for declaratory relief and to recover compensation for two holidays, Labor Day 1976 and Admission Day 1976. The superior court determined the defendant Santee School District was obliged to pay holiday pay for Admission Day 1977 but not for Labor Day or Admission Day 1976. CSEA appeals.

Labor Day was on Monday, September 6, 1976, and Admission Day was on September 9, 1976. The teachers at the Santee School District [787] officially reported for duty on Tuesday, September 7, 1976, to prepare for the opening of the regular school year the following Monday.

During the summer, the media center specialist resigned and the Prospect Avenue school was without media center assistants to check out materials to the teachers. Certain of the classified employees were requested, but not required, by the principal to perform their work of special "as needed" services in the school's media center. They were paid for this work. Two of the employees worked Tuesday, September 7, Wednesday, September 8, and Friday, September 10. Others worked on September 8 or September 10, or both days.

Calif. Sch. Employees Assn. v. Santee Sch. Dist.

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COLOGNE, J.

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