Los Angeles County Employees Ass'n v. County of Los Angeles

Opinion

WOODS, P. J.

Plaintiffs/appellants are unions appealing from a judgment which denied their petition to compel the County of Los Angeles (County) to implement certain health care insurance benefits which they claimed had been wrongfully denied to them.

The issues are (1) whether appellants exhausted their administrative remedies, and (2) whether the County improperly discriminated against nonsettling unions when it granted the insurance benefits only to those units which had otherwise completed negotiations.

As is required by the Government Code, the employees of the County are represented…