Judge Rules State Fund Employees Exempt from Unpaid Furloughs

A San Francisco judge ruled Wednesday that State Compensation Insurance Fund employees are not subject to the two-day-per-month unpaid furloughs that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger imposed on state employees as a budget-balancing maneuver.“In a nutshell, what his ruling said is the Insurance Code precludes State Fund from being subject to staff cutbacks, that furloughs fall into that category and that was the legislative intent,” said State Fund spokeswoman Jennifer Vargen.Schwarzenegger last December ordered all state workers to take unpaid furloughs every other Friday, and later amen...