California School Employees Ass'n v. Coachella Valley Unified School District
Opinion
Opinion
Morris, J.
Opinion (hereafter District), appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Riverside County, granting the application of respondent, California School Employees Association (hereafter Association), for a writ of mandate compelling the District to pay fringe benefits to all of its classified employees in an amount equal to the highest level then being paid by any one of five districts included in the unified District.
Appellants, Coachella Valley Unified School District, Board of Trustees, and Eugene Tucker, Superintendent of the District
The issue presented in this appeal is whether Education Code section 13584.3 imposes upon a newly unified school district a duty to raise the level of fringe benefits for all classified employees to the highest level being paid by any of the districts included in the unification.
The facts are not in dispute.
On July 1, 1973, Coachella Valley Unified School District became an operating entity as a result of the unification of the four elementary school districts of Coachella, Oasis, Mecca, and Thermal with the Coachella Joint Union High School District of Riverside and Imperial Counties.