Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—2d Cir.: Employer must arbitrate union grievance concerning changes to retiree life insurance benefit
- COVERAGE, LIABILITY—10th Cir.: Burden falls on university hospital to assert it is arm-of-the-state
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—6th Cir.: Highway technician fired over opioid prescription fails to revive Rehab Act claims
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—9th Cir.: Airline employee lacked claim based on TSA’s revocation of his security badge
- DISCRIMINATION—SEX—10th Cir.: Charge nurse fails to revive sex bias and retaliation claims on appeal
- DOL NEWS—Sanitation company faces potential injunction after allegedly employing minors at meat processing plants
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—D. Kan.: No EPSLA claim for employee who missed work due to father’s death and COVID-related quarantines
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—N.D. Ill.: Employee fired partly for absences she didn’t properly identify as FMLA leave advances claims to trial
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—N.D. Ohio: County employee fired after FMLA usage, COVID illness advances FMLA, FFCRA claims
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Lawful use of cannabis in North Carolina's workplace
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—The monkeypox situation and the workplace
- LABOR NEWS—BMWED extends no-strike period to December 9 on tentative national railway agreement negotiations
- LABOR—NLRB WEEKLY SUMMARY—Weekly summary of NLRB decisions
- OSHA NEWS—$282K in penalties proposed after employers reportedly shirk required fall protections
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—E.D. Pa.: Pharmaceutical company qualifies as employer under state whistleblower law
- WORTH NOTING—Cases of note dealing with wage-hour issues
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