Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—D.C. Cir.: No adverse employment action in denying OAG employee’s requests for lateral transfer
- CLASS ACTIONS—Cal. App.: PAGA suit properly brought in county where violations were committed
- DISCRIMINATION—7th Cir.: Staff attorney was fired for poor performance, not because of age, race, disability, or sexual orientation
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—Cal. App.: Teacher’s claim that school district failed to accommodate her ‘electromagnetic hypersensitivity’ revived
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—Ky. Sup. Ct.: Kentucky Civil Rights Act does not apply to associational discrimination claims
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—3rd Cir.: Hotel unlawfully fired maid, banned union rep, cancelled health insurance
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—D.C. Cir.: NLRB acted arbitrarily by refusing to apply ‘new rule’ in parallel case
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—6th Cir.: Pension contribution dispute over installation work remanded for clarification of ambiguous terms
- PROCEDURE—W.D. Wash.: Ex-Google employee’s RICO claims barred by claim preclusion based on earlier dismissed arbitration proceeding
- PUBLIC EMPLOYEES—E.D. Va.: ‘Consensus of persuasive authority’ may determine whether right ‘clearly established’ for qualified immunity
- AGENCY NEWS—California Labor Commissioner cites LA McDonald’s franchisee $125,000-plus for workplace retaliation
- DOJ NEWS—Michigan to pay $750K over alleged unlawful sex-based job assignments for female correctional officers
- DOL NEWS—DOL withdraws opinion letters on independent contractor status, compensability of truck sleeper berth time
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $669K in unpaid wages for 307 workers due to FLSA, DBRA violations
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—Dem legislation would bolster OSHA’s illness and injury reporting enforcement
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—UK Supreme Court: Uber drivers are ‘workers’ with rights to minimum wage, other protections
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Washington Supreme Court upholds authority to pursue felony charges in workplace fatality
- NLRB NEWS—How to track election petitions and results, ULP charges filed
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