California School Employees Ass'n v. Santee School District

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…