For nearly a year the California State Personnel Board (SPB) has been conducting an intensive overhaul of the format of the disciplinary appeals process. Those efforts finally came to fruition and were implemented in September ...

The SPB is heavily enforcing these new regulations as they receive approximately 2,600 appeals a year.  Generally 1 in 10 cases actually go to full admin trial.  5 in 10 settle at the PHSC and ...