Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—Sixth Circuit designated to rule on consolidated challenges to OSHA’s vaccinate or test mandate
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—IRS releases 2022 inflation adjustments to various tax limitations on employer-provided benefits
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Post-Epic Systems challenges to Iskanian are going nowhere
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Tennessee enacts law restricting enforcement of vaccine mandates
- ARBITRATION—Cal. App.: Employer can’t compel arbitration of VP’s bias claims under long term cash bonus plan provision
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—6th Cir.: RIF’d 60-year-old Hewlett-Packard director sees age bias, retaliation claims revived
- DISCRIMINATION—E.D. Pa.: Cancer-stricken nurse fired after 37 years for allegedly falsifying single time sheet gets trial
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—N.D. Tex.: Forklift operator who claimed supervisor singled out African-American workers for menial tasks proceeds with HWE claim
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—Correctional officer’s multiple and repeated harassment justified termination
- LABOR—S.D.N.Y.: Non-union employer failed to prove union engaged in illegal secondary activity
- WAGE-HOUR—D. Md.: Restaurant owner who failed to remit tax withholdings of tipped employees held liable for unpaid wages
- WAGE-HOUR—SETTLEMENTS—E.D. Cal.: Employee fails to show proposed $1.2M wage and hour settlement fair and reasonable
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $479K in back wages, damages for FLSA, H-1B visa violations
- EEOC NEWS—COVID-19 Q&As updated with new section on retaliation
- EEOC NEWS—FY 2021 report shows agency recovered $484M-plus for discrimination victims
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—Labor Secretary ratifies interim final rule action codifying large employer vaccinate or test mandate
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Group of 12 states challenges CMS’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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