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8/1/06 Getting Paid for Getting Dressed:  FLSA defines working time to include getting in and out of safety gear.
   
2/6/06 Dan Neville Redux: Judge Dismisses Remaining Charge by Harry S. Stern
   
11/14/05 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING NEWS: RLS congratulates the following associations on achieving new contracts: Union City POA (assisted by Mark O'Connell); Daly City Fire (assisted by John Noble); San Leandro POA (assisted by Rocky Lucia) and Modesto Police Managers Association (assisted by Bud Stone). For more details on these collective bargaining agreements and others, or for salary survey assistance, please contact our office.
   
11/9/05 Ninth Circuit Gives First Amendment Protection to False Accusations Made Against the Police - California Supreme Court's decision in People v. Stanistreet is overruled
   
8/1/05 RLW News Bulletin: Beware the Alford Waiver, Part 2
   
7/05
   
7/15/05 Arbitration Cost Sharing Provisions Declared Unconstitutional
   
3/05
   
3/5/05
   
9/30/03

RL&W Newsletter: Oakland “Riders” Acquitted Jury renders not guilty verdits on 8 counts.

   
9/08/03 Compensatory Time Off Rules Revised By Alison Berry Wilkinson
   
8/03
   
4/21/03 Senate Bill 420 declared unconstitutional
   
4/15/03 United States Department of Labor proposes to relax the standards for declaring employees exempt from overtime.
   
4/04/03 New laws protect officers who display American flags and wear flag pins on duty.
   
3/03

Getting representation immediately after a critical incident.

   
3/03 Rights that must be given to an officer before being interrogated about something that could lead to "Punitive Action." (i.e., actions as minor as a written reprimand or as serious as termination)
   
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