Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—1st Cir.: Service provider on online platform bound to arbitrate wage claims on individual basis
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—5th Cir.: Supreme Court’s Bostock decision did not pave the way for female police officer’s same-sex harassment claim
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—D. Mass.: Maintenance employee who claimed supervisor touched, stared at her advances harassment claims
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—D. Conn.: Firefighter was fired for medical marijuana use, not PTSD
- Privacy—N.D. Ill.: SCA suit against employer for smartphone data extraction may not proceed
- RETALIATION—S.D.N.Y.: Attorney fired after ‘recanting’ statement coworker made anti-Semitic comments advances retaliation claim
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—5th Cir.: Texas Education Association entitled to sovereign immunity against employee’s whistleblower claims
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—7th Cir.: Filing of TCR Forms on SEC website did not toll later complaint of retaliation
- AGENCY NEWS—NY AG recovers $1.8M from government contractor that padded bills
- EEOC NEWS—Staffing company pays $80K to resolve ADA allegations after firing employee with cancer
- INDUSTRY NEWS, TRENDS—Microsoft shares its return-to-worksite shift, workplace trends research, strategies for the future
- REPORTS—One in 10 companies get ‘A’ on Racial and Gender Pay Scorecard, 26/51 flunk
- WHITE HOUSE NEWS—Secretary Marty Walsh takes the helm at the Department of Labor
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