Disney to cut hundreds of employees in latest round of layoffs
Walt Disney Co. launched another deep round of layoffs on Monday, notifying several hundred Disney employees in the U.S. and abroad that their jobs were…
She ran the L.A. animal shelters. Why couldn’t she fix the problems?
Staycee Dains was about a month into her job overseeing the Los Angeles city animal shelters when an employee openly defied her. Dains asked the…
How Rob Pyers went from laid-off drugstore employee to one of California’s campaign finance experts
On an afternoon in mid-December, Rob Pyers notices something amiss. It’s months after the grueling 2016 election, a quiet time when consultants and candidates are…
FDA to rehire fired staffers who booked inspection trips
WASHINGTON — For the second time in recent months, the Food and Drug Administration is bringing back some recently fired employees, including staffers who handle travel bookings…
A Times investigation: LAFD union head made $540,000 in a year, with huge overtime payouts
Long before the devastating fire in Pacific Palisades, leaders of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s labor union complained that the agency did not have enough…
Fired Disney employee sentenced to prison for hacking restaurant menus
A fired Disney employee, who hacked into the company’s internal system and changed allergen information on restaurant menus while adding profanities, has been sentenced to…
Veterans Affairs asks employees to report ‘anti-Christian bias’ for investigation by new task force
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing a task force to investigate employee reports of alleged anti-Christian bias among their colleagues, part of a broader…
State Department wants staff to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias during Biden’s term
WASHINGTON — As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department has issued an appeal for its employees to report instances…
Anti-Trump, Musk protests draw big crowds in L.A. and around the nation
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump and a wide range of his administration’s…
More counts lobbed against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in sex trafficking case
Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing additional counts related to sex trafficking from federal prosecutors, according to a superseding indictment filed this week.Combs was…
Layoffs begin at U.S. health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up…
Executive order would ban federal employee unionization, collective bargaining
1 of 2 | Thousands of federal workers may lose the right to unionize after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would ban…
ESPN’s L.A.-based ‘SportsCenter’ is leaving and heading east
ESPN’s “SportsCenter” is leaving L.A.The Walt Disney Co. unit’s flagship sports highlights program will have its last edition from the ESPN Los Angeles Production Center,…
California in settlement talks with Uber, Lyft over wage theft claims
In early 2020, thousands of drivers — led by Southern California advocacy group Rideshare Drivers United — filed claims with the state against Uber and…
Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department…
A judge ordered a Brown University professor not be deported. She was sent back to Lebanon anyway
BOSTON — A federal judge wants to know why a doctor from Lebanon with a U.S. visa was deported after he ordered that she not be removed…
Judge orders Trump to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco ordered President Trump’s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in…
Trump guts Education Department, sending California scrambling
The Trump administration has begun dismantling the U.S. Department of Education by laying off about half of the agency’s employees, casting uncertainty over how —…
Top U.S. health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees
WASHINGTON — Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human…
Trump to cut 80,000 workers from Veterans Affairs, memo says
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care for retired…