California School Employees Ass'n v. Tamalpais Union High School District

California School Employees Association (hereafter CSEA) petitioned the Superior Court of Marin County for a writ of mandate to compel Tamalpais Union High School District (hereafter the District) to pay its classified employees holiday pay for February 13, 1981, plus interest and attorney’s fees.

The court tentatively decided in favor of requiring appellant to pay the holiday rate plus interest but denied the prayer for attorney’s fees. The court *881 then entered judgment in favor of CSEA and issued a writ of mandate compelling the District to pay the appropriate wages plus interest. The District appeals.

The sole issue presented on appeal is whether the District, in giving its certificated employees February 13, 1981, off, had declared a holiday within the meaning of Education Code 1 section 37222, 2 which obligated it to give a holiday to its classified employees under section 45203. 3 Section 45203 then provided that all holidays given to certificated employees under section 1318 or section 37222 shall be given to classified employees, with certain exceptions.

February 13, 1981, Friday and the day after Lincoln’s birthday, was listed as a local holiday on the…