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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: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System
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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: Career and Workplace, Same-Sex Marriage, Labor Legislation, Adam Schiff, Facebook
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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: Employment, Collective Contract, Health and Safety at Work, Employment Opportunities, Politics
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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: Matt Doyle, Career and Workplace, Arbitration, Employees, Trials
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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: Career and Workplace, Employees, Civil and Public Service, Public Employees, Government
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Employer of the Quarter Award launched
Burbank’s Media City Community Credit Union launched the Employer of the Quarter Award to recognize local employers that provide employees access to credit union information. Costco Wholesale of Burbank received the first award for facilitating...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employers, Unions, Employment Opportunities
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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: Matt Doyle, Career and Workplace, Employees, Chicago Jobs, Employers
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Mercury Air Centers pays $600k in settlement
Mercury Air Centers has agreed to pay seven Burbank employees and other members of a class-action lawsuit $600,000 to settle claims that they experienced racial discrimination and sexual harassment. Atlantic Services Inc. — which purchased Mercury...Tags: Career and Workplace, Los Angeles, Bob Hope, Employees, Labor Legislation
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Interim police chief continues
Interim Burbank Police Chief Scott LaChasse, who was hired as a change agent in the wake of multiple probes into officer misconduct, will continue to serve through December, and possibly longer, officials said. His contract was set to expire last month,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employers, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Public Employees, Government
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Fire academy is a hot ticket
Burbank fire officials expect up to 2,000 applicants to attend an orientation for the next academy as the department gears up to hire eight to 10 recruits.
The recruiting period for the latest fire academy ends Friday, the first time Burbank has...Tags: Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Career and Workplace, Fires, Employers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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Family Promise making progress
After two years of grass-roots fundraising, a new nonprofit agency is now helping families that have fallen into homelessness get back on their feet by using a network of churches and connecting with myriad job-finding services. Since the official...Tags: Career and Workplace, Family, Disasters, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Disasters and Accidents
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Board looking into family favortism
Burbank officials this week began a policy discussion on nepotism and what they said was a void of rules governing family members who work directly with one another. According to Civil Service Board Chairman Nathan Schlossman's calculations, based on a...Tags: Career and Workplace, Event Planning, Employees, Employers, Civil and Public Service
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