California School Employees Assn. v. Azusa Unified School Dist

In California School Employees Assn. v. Azusa Unified School Dist. (1984) 152 Cal.App.3d 580, the school district designated six days as either "local holidays for students" or "professional/conference days." Teachers were required to work on those days and were paid for working. Division Two of this court held that classified employees who did not work on those six days were entitled to be paid regular wages pursuant to section 45203. (Azusa, supra, 152 Cal.App.3d at pp. 593-595.) The Azusa court did not consider the context of the disputed language of section 45203, that is, that the statute relates to paid holidays for classified employees. The court also did not address whether local holidays for students and professional/conference days were in lieu of student instruction days, or consider much of the legislative history that we have reviewed.