Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—NLRB: No-recording policy remains lawful though applied in unlawful manner
- STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES—First 100 days of 117th Congress show greater oversight and more probes of the private sector to be expected
- ARBITRATION—Cal. Ct. App.: Driver’s PAGA claim for wage violations by Uber not subject to arbitration
- COVERAGE, LIABILITY—S.D. Ill.: Production line worker was staffing agency employee, not employee of facility where he was assigned
- DISCHARGE—E.D. Pa.: Terminated doctor’s sweeping antitrust, RICO claims against former employer, lawyers dismissed
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—C.D. Cal.: New hire with chronic pain who failed pre-employment drug screen fails on discrimination claims
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—8th Cir.: No ADA, FMLA violations in terminating sole office assistant with reactive arthritis for excessive absences
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—M.D. Pa.: University employee, required to provide monthly certification, advances FMLA interference claim
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—Cal. App.: Rite Aid employee hangs onto most of $6M jury verdict in third appeal
- WAGE-HOUR—EXEMPTIONS—5th Cir.: Motor Carrier Act exemption applies to private prisoner transportation companies
- DOJ NEWS—Former union business agent sentenced for assault
- DOL NEWS—Lawn care company to pay $39K for unpaid overtime
- DOL NEWS—Operator of behavior health center failed to protect workers from over 50 patient attacks
- LABOR NEWS—Cornell University launches strike tracker
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Grubhub customers say they’re being forced to pay for Prop 22 lobbying
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—NAACP sues OFCCP, OMB for records related to Trump’s diversity training order
- SURVEYS—38 percent of workers say the pandemic has ‘derailed’ their careers
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