Locker: Firing Was Political

This morning's Los Angeles Times has an article about Miles Locker's departure from the DLSE:

In a 22-page complaint detailing Locker's dismissal, labor standard officials charged him with trying to undermine his supervisors' efforts to interpret state wage and hour laws. The complaint, relying in part on e-mails taken from Locker's office computer, called him disloyal because he "secretly communicated … disagreements" with his supervisors to lawyers outside the government.

The complaint also accused Locker, who is appealing his firing to the state Personnel Board, of making comments last year that ridiculed then-Labor Commissioner Donna Dell.