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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
This week’s spotlight among COVID-19 related workplace litigation involves a familiar trend: a plaintiff who collectively alleges she was not provided required meal breaks (nor paid for working through them), and individually alleges wrongful termination in retaliation for reporting her employer’s alleged violation of COVID-19 related safety measures. We’ve seen it before and we will see it again yet another example of a complainant combining COVID-19 related allegations with unrelated wage and hour allegations.
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Alba v. Cock-A-Doodle Restaurant, Inc., et al., the plaintiff, a restaurant server and bartender, claims the defendant employer wrongfully terminated her in retaliation for protected whistle blowing. The plaintiff alleges that the director of the California Department of Public Health ordered all Californians to wear masks inside any indoor public space, and ordered indoor dining in San Bernardino County restaurants to cease for
REVEALED: FBI got secretive Australian hacking firm to unlock iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Farook Malik in 2016 after stand-off with Apple over mass-killer s privacy
The 2015 San Bernardino terror attacks, in which 14 people were killed and 22 wounded were the deadliest terrorist incident on US shores since 9/11
The FBI asked Apple to crack Syed Farook s phone, suspecting it contained clues why he and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a staff Christmas party
Apple CEO Tim Cook refused citing privacy and ethical concerns, and giving governments the power to snoop was something we consider too dangerous
It provoked a furious legal battle, with the FBI going to court to compel Apple to open its encrypted software
The Yucca Valley Town Council will meet tonight to discuss developments with the Brehm Sports Complex as well as plans to use town spaces during a public health emergency, the first step in setting up a vaccination site in Yucca Valley. Reporter Joshua King has more details…
Tonight’s meeting will cover a varied amount of topics, beginning with the authorization of a five-year professional agreement between the Town of Yucca Valley and C&L Services Inc. for a radio communication system. Following, the Council will approve an amendment to accommodate additional work on the Yucca Trail Safety Improvement Project. Shortly after, there will be an approval of a memorandum of understanding between the Town of Yucca Valley and San Bernardino County Department of Public Health that will establish the use of a local site or facility in the case of a public health emergency. Finally, the meeting will end with a public hearing regarding the Community Development Block Grant and how its fun
Novel coronavirus SARS CoV2, which causes COVID-19.
Meanwhile, new COVID mutations called variants are now spreading across the U.S. Microphotography by National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
On New Year’s Eve, a more contagious strain of COVID-19 that first appeared in the United Kingdom emerged in Florida, with the state health department tweeting information on Florida’s first case.
That one case – a young man in his 20s in Martin County – has now jumped to 22 cases as of Thursday, the second highest number in the nation. Only California has more cases, 32, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.