What the panel ordered
The Petitions for Reconsideration were denied and the March 28, 2019 Findings of Fact and Order were affirmed.
Petitions for Reconsideration filed by multiple applicants were considered after the March 28, 2019 Findings of Fact and Order.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The Board found that the inmates were employees of the County of Fresno because they received extra visitation rights as consideration, which constituted sufficient consideration to support an employment relationship under existing case law.
From the decision · page 17In applying the compulsory test above using the Rowland factors, we conclude that applicants' work here were voluntary. Preliminarily, we note that the parties here have not offered into evidence, nor have we found, a county ordinance that addresses the employment status of county inmates. As such, following the court in Pruitt, supra, 261 Cal.App.2d at pp. 552-553, and Parsons, supra, 126 Cal.App.3d at pp. 638-639, above, we focus our analysis on the relationship between the inmates and the county.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.