Can a public employee have a vested contractual right to change the terms of their employment?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Kemmerer v. County of Fresno, 200 Cal.App.3d 1426, 246 Cal.Rptr. 609 (Cal. App. 1988):
"The public employee, thus, can have no vested contractual right in the terms of his or her employment, such terms being subject to change by the [200 Cal.App.3d 1433] proper statutory authority." (Hinchliffe v. City of San Diego (1985) 165 Cal.App.3d 722, 725, 211 Cal.Rptr. 560.)
In Valenzuela v. State of California, supra, 194 Cal.App.3d at p. 920, 240 Cal.Rptr. 45, the court stated:
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