Roy Neely worked as a firefighter for the New Orleans Fire Department. On September 1, 2020, Neely struck an overhead door as he was driving a rescue unit vehicle out of Fire Station 7. Neely’s District Chief ordered a post-accident substance abuse test. The test was administered by Jeffrey Mendler, the owner of Toxicology and […]
AFSCME Local 4041 represents the corrections officers employed by the State of Nevada’s Warm Springs Correctional Center. For several years, officers worked a mixed schedule of eight-hour and twelve-hour shifts. In December 2020, the State changed all employees to work eight-hour shifts. Local 4041 filed an unfair labor practice complaint with Nevada’s labor board. Local […]
John Cannici was a firefighter with the Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, which has a requirement that firefighters live in the Village. In 2008, Cannici purchased a house in Orland Park. His wife and their children lived in the Orland Park house while Cannici lived in the Village house. In June 2013, Cannici rented the […]
The Washington State Council of County and City Employees represents a number of employees of Spokane County. In 2018, the County’s commissioners passed a resolution that all collective bargaining contract negotiations be conducted publicly and in real time, either in person or by video. When the Council began bargaining with the County for new contracts […]
On October 21, 2017, Michael Stanitis, a police officer for the Bridgeport Police Department in Connecticut, responded to an incident in which he and other police officers arrested Carmelo Mendez. On October 22, 2020, the Bridgeport Board of Police Commissioners terminated Stanitis’ employment upon finding that he used excessive force during Mendez’s arrest, and that […]
Jennifer Smith was a police officer for the City of Pelham, Alabama. When the police chief became concerned that Smith was excessively using sick time and time off, particularly on Fridays and Mondays, he asked a detective to conduct a forensic analysis of Smith’s work computer. The City has a Computer/Email & Internet Use Policy […]
Chase Montgomery, a Baltimore City police officer, filed a claim with the Workers’ Compensation Commission seeking compensation for an injury he sustained when he stepped out of his patrol vehicle, lost his balance, and hit his head on the vehicle. In its response to the claim, the City did not contest that Officer Montgomery’s injury […]
Allison Shuff is a police officer for the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On January 6, 2016, Shuff filed a workers’ compensation claim alleging that she suffered an injury in the form of depression and PTSD based on two incidents that occurred in the course and scope of her employment. Both incidents involved Shuff’s failure to […]
Juan Mata is a police officer with the City of Bangor, Michigan. Mata was injured when the police K-9 working with a Van Buren County deputy sheriff injured him during the arrest of a fleeing subject. Mata and his wife sued the County and the deputy sheriff, alleging that the County was liable as the […]
Heather Bass was a Kansas City, Missouri police officer who sustained a duty-related injury in January 2008. Because of the injury, she was retired by the Department and became eligible to receive duty-related disability pension benefits from the City’s Police Retirement System. Bass also filed a worker’s compensation claim and hired an attorney to represent […]
The State Police Association of Massachusetts is the exclusive bargaining unit for the approximately 1,800 members of the Department of State Police. On August 19, 2021, Massachusetts’ governor issued an executive order requiring that all employees of the executive branch prove that they had received full COVID-19 vaccination by October 17, 2021 and mandating full […]
