Lars T. Reed

Our short Public Safety Video Briefings will tackle cutting-edge issues and core principles relevant to public safety employers. We hope you find these videos useful and thought-provoking.

We are excited to continue our video series – Wage & Hour Issues in the Workplace. In these videos, members of LCW’s Wage & Hour practice group will provide various tips that can be implemented in your workplace. We hope that you will find these clips informative and helpful!
 

On September 30, 2021, Governor Newsom signed into law a number of major legislative bills intended to enact state-wide policing reforms.
Of these bills, Senate Bill 2, which creates a state-wide system for investigating and decertifying peace officers for serious misconduct, has attracted the...

On September 30, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 2 (“SB 2”), a bill that will significantly affect law enforcement agencies across the state. The bill’s stated intent is to increase accountability for misconduct by peace officers and makes five significant changes:

It will...

The present is a uniquely challenging time for law enforcement agencies.  Public discourse, which can tend to be demoralizing, is consistently critical of police.  In turn, legislators have set their sights on reform.  By the end of the 2020 legislative session, the California Legislature had...

The number of individuals who publicly do not identify exclusively as either male or female has increased. Exactly how much is difficult to estimate, but a 2017 survey by GLAAD showed that 12 percent of millennials (i.e., adults who were then between the ages of 18 and 34) identified as something...

On September 17, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two COVID-19 related bills – Senate Bill (“SB”) 1159 and Assembly Bill (“AB”) 685.  SB 1159 is an urgency bill that is now effective immediately, and sets forth rebuttable presumption standards to establish workers’ compensation coverage...

In a unanimous decision issued May 28, 2020, the California Supreme Court ruled that the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”) does not permit public agencies to recover from the requesting party the cost of redacting information from electronic records in response to a request for electronically...

There’s been increasing recognition of individuals who do not identify exclusively as either male or female. Employers need to implement practices for creating a non-discriminatory and accommodating workplace.
These individuals—often described as “non-binary” or “gender non-conforming”—are not a...

Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, employers are required to pay overtime to non-exempt employees at one-and-one-half times the employee’s “regular rate of pay” for all time worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. The regular rate is not necessarily the same as the employee’s normal...

In 2011, after the Great Recession left California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) only 61 percent funded, the Little Hoover Commission gave a dire warning: “California’s pension plans are dangerously underfunded, the result of overly generous benefit promises, wishful thinking and an...

This article discusses how California’s pensions plans are dangerously underfunded and the aggressive reforms that are needed to save counties and cities from reverting to layoffs and reduced services. With the fear of another recession looming, local governments and public agencies need to...

Today, September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a final rule modifying the weekly salary and annual compensation threshold levels for white collar exemptions to FLSA overtime requirements. The final rule will become effective on January 1, 2020.  It is critical for public...

Today, September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a final rule modifying the weekly salary and annual compensation threshold levels for white collar exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime requirements. The final rule will become effective on January 1,...