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State workers bosses fired him over a medical test. Now taxpayers owe his widow $500,000
The court order that gave Jeff Schmeling his job back at San Quentin State Prison came too late for the veteran correctional officer.
He’d been dead for two years by the time a judge ruled in his favor, holding that state officials inappropriately fired him over a missed medical test.
The waiting continues for his widow.
Since 2015, the state has owed her five years’ worth of her late husband’s back wages. With interest, that’s about $505,000.
“It’s the difference between me keeping my home or not,” said Toraun Schmeling of Santa Cruz.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article164787272.html
