SACRAMENTO — When the state of California paid prison supervising dentist George Soohoo $1.2 million last year, it wasn’t for a job well done. It was for vacation never taken. Soohoo joined the rare ...

For a second year in a row, California canceled a program that allows state workers to cash out unused vacation time over budget concerns. Earlier this year, state leaders said California had managed ...

When 1,299 California Highway Patrol employees left their jobs in 2024, they collectively pocketed $67 million from unused vacation hours. The average payout from CHP was $52,000 per person. Payouts ...

When I first read a recent report about the hardest-working states in the U.S., the findings felt very unfair to our home state of California. We did badly on almost every criterion that they measured ...