California Court of Appeal

In a petition for a writ of administrative mandate brought by a teachers' union on behalf of certain of its members who were employed by the San Francisco Unified School District, contending that they had been provided reasonable assurance of continued employment in the fall of 2011 but were improperly denied unemployment benefits during the summer of 2011, the trail court's denial of the petition for benefits is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs are requesting the government to provide them with a full year's income because they have agreed to work and be paid for only 41 weeks of each year; and 2) the rationale for this limitation on benefits is that school employees can plan for those periods of unemployment and thus are not experiencing the suffering from unanticipated layoffs that the employment-security law was intended to alleviate.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/06/06

Judges

• DONDERO

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• California Court of Appeal

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