State Compensation Insurance Fund

Rand Institute says: Reduce SCIF workforce

Local 1000 says they got it wrong

Updated March 12, 2010
The Rand Institute suggests that SCIF reduce its state workforce by over half its current size. In the document below, the Local 1000 Research Department examines how the analysis that lead to this conclusion was faulty, inconsistent, and stands in contradiction to existing data.

Read the Local 1000 report [PDF]

Read The Rand Institute report: California's Volatile Workers' Compensation Insurance Market
(this link will take you off of the Local 1000 site)

Fast Union News Developments

Updated March 2, 2010
Engagement Survey results

State Fund promises detailed, overall report for Committee come March meeting.
State Fund plans to repeat survey in 2011; use this information as baseline to confirm progress.
Union seeks ways to get deeper into information to provide fixes, even where focus groups might not identify problems.

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Final ruling: back pay, plus interest for our SCIF workers

Updated Sept. 24, 2009
Judge Charlotte Woolard of the San Francisco Superior Court issued a final ruling Thursday morning declaring that Local 1000-represented employees of the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) are entitled to back pay – plus interest.

Woolard agreed with Local 1000 attorneys on all points. She agreed that workers are due interest for lost wages from furloughs.

Private attorneys representing the governor did not show up at Thursday's hearing to contest the issue.

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Tentative ruling: back pay, plus interest for SCIF workers

Updated September 23, 2009
Judge Charlotte Woolard of the San Francisco Superior Court issued a tentative ruling Wednesday afternoon declaring that Local 1000-represented employees of the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), are entitled to back pay - plus interest.

In the brief tentative ruling on the San Francisco Superior Court Web site, Judge Charlotte Woolard writes: "Back pay is appropriate to make petitioners (SCIF workers) whole." The tentative ruling also states that the employees are entitled to interest "since damages are certain by calculation."

The ruling is not final and could be modified after a hearing scheduled at 9:30 a.m., Thursday in Woolard's courtroom, Dept. 302, at the Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco.

SCIF furloughs canceled effective immediately

Updated September 10, 2009
A legal victory by Local 1000 in San Francisco Superior Court has ended furloughs for Local 1000- represented SCIF employees. The order - an initial and binding decision signed by Judge Charlotte Woolard - is effective immediately.

The order also prohibits the Governor and DPA from arguing the order should be stayed pending appeal. This allows the State Controller’s Office to reprogram the payroll system to full pay for SCIF workers immediately.

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Judge nixes furloughs for 6,260 SCIF workers

Updated September 3, 2009
More than 6,000 State Fund (SCIF) employees will be exempt from furloughs following a court victory by Local 1000.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlotte Walter Woolard agreed with Local 1000 attorneys and on Sept. 1 declared the furloughs of SCIF employees illegal and ordered back pay plus interest for members who lost money as a result of the furloughs. Woolard is scheduled to issue her final ruling Sept. 10 and is expected to stop furloughs for SCIF employees at that time.

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Important Links

President Walkers
demand letter to
SCIF President