FRED ROWBOTHAM LDF Chairman The PORAC Legal Defense Fund is an ERISA trust. ERISA stands for the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. ERISA dates back to 1974 when it became federal law. ERISA provides mandates in regard to many facets of running a trust. If you take the time to […]
DAVID J. GARCIA Associate Labor Attorney Goyette & Associates After several days of arbitration, David J. Garcia of Goyette & Associates was successful in persuading hearing officer Robert Hirsch to order that Mariposa County Sheriff’s Detective Nicole Gilmore “be reinstated to her prior position with the Mariposa Sheriff’s Department.” On […]
HARRY S. STERN Principal Rains Lucia Stern, PC In yet another installment of the serial rebukes of the Oakland Police Department’s “leadership by punishment” philosophy, an arbitrator has overturned an eight-day suspension of veteran Officer Wendy Cross. As crime soars in the nation’s third most dangerous city, and resources disappear […]
BILL HADDEN Partner Silver, Hadden, Silver, Wexler & Levine “Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in!” — Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III And so it is with Hawthorne Police Officer Tom Kang, who thought his three-and-a-half-year nightmare was over on March […]
FRED ROWBOTHAM LDF Chairman Rate letters have been received by association leaders. Next year’s costs are being projected by those same leaders. Some are thankful for the savings their group will derive. Others are lamenting over their increase, wondering how to pass on the news to their members. This time […]