Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—1st Cir.: Mandatory vaccination rule for healthcare workers is facially neutral, does not single out religious objectors
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Are Your Employee Benefits Plans Ready for the New Year or Is It the Same Auld Lang Syne?
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—FMLA—Back to Basics—Employer Notice Obligations and Deadlines
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Is Asking an Employee if They’re Vaccinated a HIPAA Violation? What Employers Need to Know
- ATTORNEYS’ FEES—N.D. Ill.: Chinese digital radio maker must pay $34 million in attorneys’ fees to Motorola
- DISCHARGE—D.S.C.: No negligence claim for town employee fired after refusing to allow unmasked coworker to take his temperature
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—6th Cir.: Teacher who continued to share ‘religious experience’ with students can’t advance bias claims
- DISCRIMINATION—M.D. Ala.: Sales rep fired days after right-to-sue period expired advances reprisal claim
- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS—D. Or.: Oregon educational and healthcare workers denied injunction against COVID-19 vaccination mandate
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—Falsification of checklist combined with poor performance warranted discharge of mechanic
- LABOR—NLRB WEEKLY SUMMARY—Weekly summary of NLRB decisions
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—S.D.N.Y.: Jury to decide whether settlement agreement released truck driver’s Title VII punitive damages claim
- RETALIATION—Mass. App.: ‘Extortion’ scheme to convince former worker’s ex-wife to get him to drop bias suit was unlawful
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—E.D. Pa.: New hire fired for positive drug test can’t advance Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act suit
- AGENCY NEWS—Residential care provider owes $8.5M for California wage violations
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—Facebook will pay up to $9.25M to resolve alleged discrimination against U.S. workers
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Mass General Brigham’s mandatory vaccination policy allegedly discriminates based on disability and religion
- OSHA NEWS—Employers face $540K in proposed penalties for fall, COVID-19, other hazards
- OSHA NEWS—Iron foundry will pay $276K, take corrective measures to resolve safety hazards
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