Cal Fire Local 2881, and v. California Public Employees' Retirement System, and Respondent State of California…

Summary

Justice Kruger concurs in the majority's conclusion that the opportunity to purchase additional retirement service credits did not vest merely because an employee entered or continued public employment. She explains that pension benefits can vest through an implied unilateral contract because they constitute deferred compensation, but the purchase option was offered in exchange for payment of the statutory price rather than continued service. Justice Liu separately emphasizes that the employer's offer of employment subject to the statutory pension plan, rather than the statute itself, constitutes the contractual offer.