Locker: Firing Was Political

by Jon-Erik G. Storm on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

This morning’s Los Angeles Times has an article about Miles Locker’s departure from the DLSE:

In a 22-page complaint detailing Locker’s dismissal, labor standard
officials charged him with trying to undermine his supervisors’ efforts
to interpret state wage and hour laws. The complaint, relying in part
on e-mails taken from Locker’s office computer, called him disloyal
because he "secretly communicated … disagreements" with his supervisors
to lawyers outside the government.

The complaint also accused Locker, who is appealing his firing to the
state Personnel Board, of making comments last year that ridiculed
then-Labor Commissioner Donna Dell.