Employees' Retirement System v. Martin

Sears, Justice.

This appeal and cross-appeal raise numerous issues concerning the retirement benefits that former employees of the Fulton County Department of Family & Children Services (“Fulton DFCS”) who transferred to state employment after July 1, 1982, are entitled to under the Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia (“ERS”). In the direct appeal, the ERS contends that the trial court erred in ruling that a retirement statute violated equal protection by providing significantly reduced retirement benefits to such employees compared to former employees of Fulton DFCS who transferred to…