Good morning, welcome to my latest edition of Monday Morning Briefing. I hope you are enjoying this delicious weather we are finally having here in California, and if you celebrated any holidays this past week or so, some time with family and friends. I most definitely did both. STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES – COMPLIANCE ISSUES…
Author: Adreena Thomas
Happy Spring Holidays – Break Until Next Week, But Don’t Take a Break from Compliance
Good morning, welcome to my latest edition of Monday Morning Briefing. Actually, I’m really just popping on here to check in with you all, because I know if I miss two weeks in a row, some of you worry if I’m still alive. Truth is, I have another full day mediation today, the second in…
Paid Family Leave Grant; Employee Mental Health Awareness
Good morning, and Happy Monday. I hope you are all hunkered down someplace safe with good AC this week, that is most certainly where I plan to stay. I am going to try to keep this week’s Briefing brief, and I actually have some rare good news! CONGRATS TO OUR TRIAL TEAM! So before I…
The Oscars – A Reminder To Not Use Social Media As An Investigation Tutorial
As with last week, all remains relatively quiet in COVID-19 news, notwithstanding that we keep hearing about surges and subvariants in other parts of the world. As I reported way back the first week of March, Los Angeles City Council members voted 12 – 0 to repeal the ordinance that required many indoor venues to…
Regular Rate of Pay – A Reminder by the CA Supreme Court this Summer in Ferra v Loews Hollywood Hotel
Good morning, welcome to my latest edition of my Monday Morning Briefing. I hope most of you had a better football playoff weekend result than my team did, but I will say congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams, who somehow found a way to beat Tom Brady. No New Changes to the COVID Protocols This…
More OSHA ETS; LA County Mask Rules and Quarantine Protocols
Good evening, welcome to this late and special holiday edition of my Monday Morning Briefing. Our office was closed today for the Martin Luther King holiday, but I did still want to send out a Briefing this week, so forgive the lateness of this week’s edition. SCOTUS Scrubs The OSHA ETS/Federal Vaccine-or-Test Mandate Well, I…
OSHA ETS/Federal Vaccine-or Test Mandate; Good News on PAGA
Good morning, happy Monday, and welcome to the second edition of my Monday Morning Briefing, which I did manage to get out during the morning! With the feedback and help from several of you from last week and some tweaking on my own end, I have added a few new names this week, so welcome…
Happy New Year!
To my clients, colleagues and friends, Happy New Year! Last year, in the middle of all the COVID craziness, I decided I really wanted to find a way to get information out to my clients more frequently, because the laws kept changing, and the world had gotten nuts, and everyone would call and text and…