Los Angeles County Ass'n of Environmental Health Specialists v. County of Los Angeles
Opinion
Opinion
Boland, J.
Summary
Three Los Angeles County employees and their union appeal from an order denying their application for a preliminary injunction preventing the county from requiring them to use their own vehicles in the performance of county business. The trial court properly denied the injunction, because the Charter of Los Angeles County (Charter) does not prohibit the county from requiring the use of personal vehicles as a condition of employment.
Factual and Procedural Background
The Los Angeles County Association of Environmental Health Specialists (Union) is an employee organization representing a bargaining unit of approximately 550 employees of the State Department of Health Services. The unit’s members are employed by the County of Los Angeles (County) to provide regulatory and inspection activities mandated by state and local law, including the inspection of restaurants, grocery stores, hotels and motels, and other facilities and drinking water systems throughout the county. The Union is the unit’s exclusive representative, and meets and confers with the County with respect to wages, hours and working conditions of unit employees.