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PERB reversed ALJ’s decision to offset against four employees’ lost wages the CalPERS pension distributions they began receiving during the backpay period, as the employees had earned this deferred compensation entirely during their pre-layoff work for the employer. (See Miller v. State of California (1977) 18 Cal.3d 808, 814 [pensions “are deferred compensation earned immediately upon the performance of services”].) Pension distributions received during the backpay period offset an employee’s net backpay award only if an employee earned the pension via work during the backpay period. (United Enviro Systems, Inc. (1997) 323 NLRB 83, 84 [retirement income from an interim employer earned during the backpay period offsets losses].) In contrast, deferred compensation earned before the backpay period is not an offset against earnings lost during the backpay period. (Ibid.; Fresno County Office of Education (1996) PERB Decision No. 1171, adopting proposed decision at p. 8, fn. 9 [pension distributions, which employee earned before her layoff, did not offset lost earnings during the backpay period].)