Lake Charles LA Dec 5 2020 A security guard who was injured by a psychiatric patient while on duty is entitled to supplemental earning benefits and penalties, an appellate court ruled Wednesday. In Landry v. Lofton Security Service Inc., the Louisiana Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, in Lake Charles reversed a workers compensation judge’s ruling denying […]
BALTIMORE MD Dec 3 2020 – Maryland-based Davis & Davis Enterprise, Inc., an employer of security guards that also operates under the name All Secure Security Company, has agreed to resolve a federal sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. According to the suit, Davis & […]
Sacramento CA October 3 2020 Security Officers: Rest Periods. AB 1512 provides some relief—through January 1, 2027—from rest period laws for the security industry, possibly paving the way for later legislation benefitting other industries. AB 1512 authorizes registered private patrol operator employers to require certain security officer employees (those registered under the Private Security Services […]
Jersey City NJ October 1 2020 A Jersey City police officer admitted via teleconference in federal court in Newark on Tuesday that she collected more than $9,000 with a colleague’s help for what turned out to be no-show traffic duty. Gicella Sanchez, 36, struck a plea deal with the government rather than go to trial for […]
Cherry Hill NJ Sept 26 2020 A Cherry Hill school security officer who called the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin a “good shoot” on his Facebook page said he was fired by the district after 19 years because it “upset people” and violated the district social media policy. Blake, who is Black, was shot […]
BATON ROUGE, La. Sept 16 2020 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing nation-wide security company Allied Universal for allegedly discriminating against one of its female employees in Baton Rouge. The EEOC alleges that when U.S. Security Associates, which does business as Allied Universal, found out a female employee was pregnant, it reassigned her to […]
California Sept 4 2020 Apple must pay its retail employees for their time undergoing exit searches, according to a ruling Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The unanimous decision was issued after the California Supreme Court ruled in February that Apple violated state law by not compensating workers for the time […]
Mountain Home AR Aug 12 2020 The former asset protection manager at the Mountain Home Walmart, accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the company, entered a guilty plea to the charges against him during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. Thirty-one-year-old Shawn Backowski of Mountain Home was sentenced to 10 years probation. […]
Secaucus NJ July 29 2020 A Hudson Regional Hospital security guard has been charged with stealing from three patients, including one who had died of COVID-19, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. Danny Rivera, 40, of Jersey City, a security guard at the Secaucus hospital, was charged on July 22 with three counts of theft […]
WEST COLUMBIA, SC July 25 2020— Five UPS employees were arrested last week in connection with guns stolen from the shipping company’s hub in West Columbia, according to Lexington County deputies. The employees, all teenagers, were charged with breach of trust, according to a press release by the Lexington County Sheriff’s Office. Byron Burke, 19, […]