Waiting time period for civil service employees

[Chajoy1978]

California: I was recently terminated and was not given my final pay/accrued vacation, at the time of release. I just called the administrative office and was told civil service does not have a time frame and only has to pay final wages when administratively possible. I cannot find anything that states this. Is it true? Or do they still have to follow the Labor Law to pay at time of termination? This is all I could find: "The waiting time penalty applies to all employees regardless of status, exempt, nonexempt, full-time, part-time, temporary, probationary, or otherwise. The penalty does not apply to independent contractors or volunteers, as they are not "employees." I was not an independent contractor or volunteer. Thank you.

 

[LdiJ]

California: I was recently terminated and was not given my final pay/accrued vacation, at the time of release. I just called the administrative office and was told civil service does not have a time frame and only has to pay final wages when administratively possible. I cannot find anything that states this. Is it true? Or do they still have to follow the Labor Law to pay at time of termination? This is all I could find: "The waiting time penalty applies to all employees regardless of status, exempt, nonexempt, full-time, part-time, temporary, probationary, or otherwise. The penalty does not apply to independent contractors or volunteers, as they are not "employees." I was not an independent contractor or volunteer. Thank you.

I suspect that its the bureaucracy of the civil service system that makes it impossible for them to just cut a check.

 

[eerelations]

I suspect that its the bureaucracy of the civil service system that makes it impossible for them to just cut a check.

Agree. I was laid off from the civil service 30 years ago and they couldn't give me my final pay for 2.5 months after my last day of work. I could have filed a wage claim, however, that would have taken six months to process it's way through the system.