Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—9th Cir.: Employer’s unilateral changes in employment conditions after CBA expired unlawful
- ARBITRATION—W.D. Ky.: Underage Panda Express employee could not be held to arbitration agreement
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—8th Cir.: No new trial for co-owner removed from merged company for ‘sexting’ customer
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—8th Cir.: No revival of retired Union Pacific employee’s state-law age-based bias, harassment, discharge claims
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—N.D. Tex.: No ADA claim for train dispatcher removed due to opioid medications for chronic pain
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—N.D. Tex.: Demoted district manager for insurance company moves forward with racial discrimination and retaliation claims intact
- DISCRIMINATION—W.D. Mo.: Hispanic employee can proceed to trial on race, age claims where railroad promoted white, younger employees
- LABOR—UNIONS, UNION MEMBERS—D. Minn.: Independent union’s constitutional claim survives, antitrust claim dismissed
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—7th Cir.: Rent-free use of property showed common control for purposes of withdrawal liability
- PROCEDURE—7th Cir.: Federal court lacked jurisdiction in suit seeking successor liability for ERISA default judgment
- WAGE-HOUR—MINIMUM WAGE—Me Sup Ct.: Portland, Maine’s emergency minimum wage initiative found to be constitutional and effective beginning in 2022
- DOJ NEWS—Railcar cleaning company, officials plead guilty in connection to railcar explosion that killed two workers
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—Interim final rule implements financial assistance for troubled multiemployer defined benefit pension plans
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—OSHA making minor technical corrections to ETS for healthcare interim final rule
- LABOR NEWS—Another alleged vehicular assault reported on Warrior Met Coal picket line in Alabama
- LABOR NEWS—U.S. and Mexico agree on steps to remediate alleged labor abuses at GM plant
- STATE LEGISLATION—NEW JERSEY—Governor signs legislative package to protect workers from misclassification
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