In the latest legal challenge to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s return-to-office mandate, the state engineers union has filed suit in Sacramento Superior Court saying the governor failed tonotify a subset of represented employees — supervisors and managers — in implementing the order.
The Professional Engineers in California Government sued the Governor’s Office and CalHR Wednesday, alleging both violated the Excluded Employee Bill of Rights, state labor law that applies to public workers who are not covered by the Ralph C. Dills Act.
By failing to meet and confer with the union over the impact of a return-to-office order on supervisors and managers in early March, Newsom violated state labor law, the union alleges…