Cynthia O'Neill has dedicated her legal
career to public sector labor and employment law. For over 20 years she
has represented cities, counties and special districts in disciplinary
appeals, administrative hearings, arbitrations, collective bargaining,
and in litigation.
Cynthia
regularly provides strategic advices and counsel to our clients, on such
topics as the FLSA, the Public Safety Officer’s Procedural Bill of
Rights Act, municipal personnel practices and employee discipline, the
Americans with Disabilities Act, collective bargaining under the Meyers-Milias-Brown
Act, and the prevention of sexual harassment.
An increasing portion of Cynthia’s
consulting services includes assisting clients with
personnel investigations, terminations,
layoffs, and the auditing of FLSA policies and practices, personnel
rules, and employer-employee relations policies.
Cynthia convinced the California Court of
Appeal, in the Gilbert v. City of Sunnyvale (2005) 130 Cal.App.4th
1264 decision, to limit a police officer’s right to receive
investigatory documents under both the Skelly due process
procedures and the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights
Act.
Cynthia has negotiated the transfer of a
municipal police department to a county sheriff. She has successfully
represented clients both during trial and on appeal and was one of the
attorneys of record on the Ninth Circuit Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
opinions of Barner v. City of Novato (9th Cir. 1994) 17 F.3d 1256
and Stanley, et al. v. City of Tracy (9th Cir. 1997) 120 F.3d
179. She drafted an appellate amicus brief on behalf of 136 California
cities and towns in Stewart/Chan v. City and County of San Francisco
(1993) 834 F.Supp. 1233, affirmed by unpublished opinion (9th Cir.
1995).
Cynthia was chosen as a 2008 Northern California SuperLawyer!
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