Holmgren v. County of Los Angeles

Opinion

VOGEL, J.

As expressly authorized by its charter and by section 31000 of the Government Code, the County of Los Angeles outsourced engineering work to two firms which over the course of many years provided engineers to perform specified work for the county. The engineers were employees of the contracting firms and paid by the contracting firms, and all signed written acknowledgements that they were not employees of the county and not entitled to any of the benefits available to county employees. Three of these engineers nevertheless filed this class action against the county, contending…