Tag Archives: San Luis Obispo Fire Department

The owners of two businesses in San Luis Obispo, California that were destroyed by a fire in 2015, have filed suit claiming the fire department’s strategy in extinguishing the blaze was negligent. News coverage of the suit is rather superficial and a copy of the complaint was not available on the San Luis Obispo Superior Court web site. According to The Tribune...

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The City of San Luis Obispo has reached an agreement to settle a Fair Labor Standards Act overtime lawsuit filed by its firefighters. The suit filed in 2016 alleged the city failed to include certain payments in the overtime.

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The fire chief and the city manager in San Luis Obispo, California have learned their long awaited fate over the sexy spoof video they participated in last January. Fire Chief Garret Olson and City Manager Katie Lichtig participated in the making of the video in 2016, which was shown at the city’s annual Chamber of Commerce dinner.

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Twenty-two San Luis Obispo firefighters have filed suit against the city alleging that they are being shortchanged on the rate they are paid for overtime. The suit filed November 30, 2016 asserts that the city failed to include “all remuneration” when calculating their “regular rate.”

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