This ran Friday, but I'm just now seeing it:
“It wasn’t my idea,” he said in an email to the Chronicle. “Michael Burman and I were forced to retire due to a CalPERS rule, which doesn’t allow retired annuitants to work for any CalPERS facility.”
Conte is referring to a rule that limits retirees drawing a pension from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System — such as those working for public institutions like the College of San Mateo, which operates KCSM — to temporary positions only, with a cap of 960 hours per fiscal year.
Though Conte was working part time, KCSM determined that the DJs’ long-standing regular shows no longer met the criteria.
“It wasn’t my idea,” he said in an email to the Chronicle. “Michael Burman and I were forced to retire due to a CalPERS rule, which doesn’t allow retired annuitants to work for any CalPERS facility.”
Conte is referring to a rule that limits retirees drawing a pension from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System — such as those working for public institutions like the College of San Mateo, which operates KCSM — to temporary positions only, with a cap of 960 hours per fiscal year.
Though Conte was working part time, KCSM determined that the DJs’ long-standing regular shows no longer met the criteria.