Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- RETALIATION—1st Cir.: Aerospace company employee failed to show confidential complaint about sexual joke prompted retaliation
- COVERAGE, LIABILITY—11th Cir.: No relief for city manager denied qualified immunity in First Amendment retaliation suit
- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR NEWS—OSHA imposes $1.2M penalty on employer for reported machine, other hazards
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—11th Cir.: Court upholds accommodation finding, reinstates jury’s award of punitive damages to pregnant employee
- DISCRIMINATION—N.D. Ill.: Flight attendant, terminated after taking customer’s property home, cannot advance claims
- DOJ NEWS—Healthcare staffing company sentenced for conspiring to suppress school nurse wages
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $516K for 168 workers under FLSA, H-2A agricultural worker program
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—D. Md.: Court commissioner fired over violations of code of conduct for judicial appointees, not FMLA activity
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—New proposed rule on independent contractors to impact trucking, gig economy and other companies
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Trade secrets/non-compete quarterly update
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Employer to pay $900K to settle claims of salesperson fired after high-risk pregnancy
- ON THE LABOR FRONT—NLRB delivers Biden Administration first success in effort to disarm employers in labor disputes
- RETALIATION—N.D. Miss.: Supervisor’s retaliatory animus may have influenced CEO’s rejection of employee’s rescission of his resignation
- TORT CLAIMS—D. Haw.: Employee’s defamation claim fails, employer’s alleged defamatory statements truthful
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—D. Ariz.: Federal district court lacks jurisdiction over out-of-state claims of remote call center workers
- WAGE-HOUR—SETTLEMENTS—W.D. Tenn.: Court grants final approval of $1.6 million settlement of misclassification claims
- WORTH NOTING—Race and national origin discrimination cases of note
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