Flippin v. Los Angeles City Board of Civil Service Commisioners

Opinion

CHAVEZ, J.

Appellant and cross-respondent Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the DWP) discharged petitioner, respondent, and cross-appellant Kenneth Flippin (respondent) from his employment as a truck driver after he was found sleeping in a hammock beneath a DWP truck on a public street during work hours. Respondent appealed the DWP’s decision, and a majority of the Los Angeles City Board of Civil Service Commissioners (the Board), sustained the penalty after sustaining the DWP’s charges that respondent was sleeping while on duty in public view, was insubordinate to his…