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LACBA L&E Symposium

Nora Rohman Presented at LACBA Labor & Employment Symposium

Public Interest Investigation’s Nora Rohman presented at the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s (LACBA) Labor & Employment Symposium on March 28, 2024 at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. Nora joined Asaf Orr, Assistant Chief of Counsel, Civil Rights Department, and Samson Spiegelman of Spiegelman Law to present “Gender Identity in the Workplace: Common…

PII at CALPELRA 2023

Public Interest Investigations, Inc. had a fantastic time this week at the California Public Employers Labor Relations Association’s (CALPELRA) 2023 Conference.

PII’s Keith Rohman Attends Ceremony at the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.

In August 1995, 78 Thai garment workers were freed from a sweatshop in El Monte, California, where they were enslaved behind barbed wire for up to seven years. The story of their enslavement made national and international news at the time. Within days, PII was retained by civil rights lawyers and lead attorney Julie Su, to investigate on behalf of the Thai workers.

Questions arise over San Jose fire department’s Pink Poodle investigation

A day after the release of an internal probe into a San Jose fire crew’s infamous visit to the Pink Poodle strip club, experts in personnel investigations and the city’s former mayor are questioning the honesty of the employees involved in the incident — most of whom were not disciplined for behavior that appears to violate fire department policies.