California Court of Appeal

Trial court's determination that defendant county has managerial power to force peace officer employees to use excess deferred vacation time in order to avoid a year end cash payout for that time is affirmed. However, trial court's award of payment to the employees for excess vacation time hours is reversed where the trial court erred in ordering employees are entitled to cash out payments for hours accumulated in excess of 320 hours.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2007
• Published 09/11/2007

Judges

• DOI TODD, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Green & Shinee, Richard A. Shinee and Helen L. Schwab, Encino, for Plaintiffs and Appellants Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, District Attorney Investigators Craig Helmkamp, Gary Judge, Larry Oda, Murray Davis, Paul Walker, Brian O'Reilly and Deputy Sheriff Dennis Riley., Silver, Hadden & Silver and Stephen H. Silver, Santa Monica, for Plaintiffs and Appellants Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers' Association, Tom Simpson and Robert H. Hausken.


• For Appellees:
  
• Law Offices of Gregory G. Kennedy and Gregory G. Kennedy, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants County of Los Angeles, Steve Cooley, District Attorney, County of Los Angeles, and Leroy D. Baca, Sheriff, County of Los Angeles.