Stanton v. State Personnel Board

Opinion

ZENOVICH, J.

Appellant appeals from an order denying a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel respondent to set aside a decision in which it imposed a 5 percent reduction in salary against appellant for a period of three months.

Appellant has been employed as a state psychiatric technician continuously from sometime in 1960. Prior to the punitive action taken by respondent, he had served in the position of senior psychiatric technician II for ward No. 22 at the Atascadero State Hospital. On April 12, 1977, he was served with a notice of punitive action charging that the alleged acts of…