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Region's entertainment job market shows new strength
Hollywood's jobs picture has brightened considerably over the last two months. The film, television and music industries in Los Angeles County generated 131,600 jobs in March, up 7.9% from February and 12.6% from the same month a year ago, according...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Entertainment, Career and Workplace, Richard Verrier
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LaChasse on permanent Burbank police chief appointment: I'm 'delighted'
Scott LaChasse’s “three-year job interview” has come to an end. Burbank’s interim police chief — brought to the helm three years ago of a department plagued by allegations of excessive force, discrimination and sexual...
Tags: Politics, Google+, Employment Opportunities, Elections, Career and Workplace
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Employment picture for entertainment industry weakens in January
Like the sluggish box office, the jobs picture in Hollywood isn't looking pretty so far this year. Employment in the motion picture, television and sound recording category fell 7.3% to 114,700 jobs in January, compared with the same period a year ago,...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, Richard Verrier
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Pension law expected to save Glendale, Burbank money
Legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this week that would require new public employees to work longer before retiring with full benefits, while at the same time requiring them to eventually cover at least half of the contribution to their retirement...Tags: Jerry Brown, Employees, Labor Markets, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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Falcon Theatre comedy spoofs modern big business
If you’ve ever been put off by a job interview that was intimidating, demeaning or just plain strange, be thankful you weren’t among the candidates for a job at Burnham & Burnham, the fictional Fortune 500 company in “The Grönholm...
Tags: Politics, Arts and Culture, Employment Opportunities, Elections, Comedy (genre)
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Unemployment rate ticks up locally, down in state
The unemployment rate dipped statewide in June, but the tri-city area didn't see the benefit, according to the latest report from the state Employment Development Department. Glendale and Pasadena each saw unemployment rates rise 0.1%, to 9.7% and 8.5%,...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Unemployment, Labor Markets, Unemployment Benefits, Career and Workplace
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Schiff aims to stop employers from asking for Facebook passwords
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) helped introduce legislation last week to rein in the growing practice of employers who require job applicants or current employees to provide access to password-protected accounts, such as Facebook, as a condition of...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Adam Schiff, Labor Legislation, Facebook, Same-Sex Marriage
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Former Burbank officer wants records purged, retirement badge
Former Deputy Police Chief William Taylor, who was awarded nearly $1.3 million in a discrimination lawsuit, is asking a judge to force the city to purge his personnel records of any reference to wrongdoing and that he be issued a retirement badge...Tags: Justice System, Employment Opportunities, Judges, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice
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New police union contract disclosed
The City Council this week approved a new contract with the police union this week that includes a 6.5% salary increase for officers, but that will also require them to pay their full share of retirement contributions. Even with officers paying more...Tags: Collective Contract, Health and Safety at Work, Employment, Labor Legislation, Health
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City to put the brakes on nepotism
Saying the honor system in Burbank wasn’t enough, Civil Service commissioners this week continued crafting an anti-nepotism policy to codify hiring and other workplace rules in a city where inter-employee relationships abound.
Burbank, unlike...Tags: Politics, Civil and Public Service, Employment Opportunities, Public Employees, Employers
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Board members want more authority
As Burbank’s Civil Service Board tackles what officials say is a long-overdue discussion on employee nepotism and dating at City Hall, the process has highlighted the board’s relative lack of power compared to similar commissions at other...Tags: Work Relations, Politics, Civil and Public Service, Employment Opportunities, Employees
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Nepotism policy takes shape
The Civil Service Board, tasked with creating a nepotism policy, has declined to ban all relatives of city workers from employment, ultimately recommending that the rule apply only to family members of executives within their respective departments....Tags: Politics, Civil and Public Service, Public Employees, Employment Opportunities, Employees
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