Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—Ill. App.: Hobby Lobby violated state law by denying transgender woman access to women’s bathroom
- EXPERT INSIGHTS: Illinois Makes Discrimination and Immigration Practices Based on Work Authorization Status A Civil Rights Violation
- EXPERT INSIGHTS: Important Updates on Colorado's Equal Pay Transparency Rules
- EXPERT INSIGHTS: North Carolina Changes Separation Payment Requirements and Employer-Notice Requirements for Employee Wages
- ARBITRATION—E.D. Pa.: Arbitration agreement between employee and AT&T enforced despite employee’s claim he didn’t receive the emails
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—S.D. Tex.: Machinist was fired because of positive drug test, not Hep C
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—8th Cir.: Arbitrator did not exceed authority in reinstating CNA fired for abusing nursing home resident
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—N.D. Tex.: District court permanently enjoins HHS from prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity
- RETALIATION—N.D. Ind.: Shipping worker fired after complaint about racial slur can present retaliation claim to jury
- WAGE-HOUR—WORKING TIME—Minn. Sup. Ct.: Rent credits paid to resident apartment manager qualified as ‘wages’ under MFLSA
- WAGE HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—S.D.N.Y.: Conditional collective action certification denied for home health aides
- DOJ NEWS—Nursing home operator will pay back pay, civil penalty to resolve alleged work authorization discrimination
- DOL NEWS—Massachusetts tree service company enjoined from further threatening employee, family members
- HOUSE NEWS—Education & Labor Committee Chairman presses OSHA for COVID-19 ETS for all workers
- NLRB NEWS—Home Depot allegedly discriminated against employee who raised racial harassment issues, wore BLM slogan
- NLRB NEWS—New Regional Director for Region 10, Officer-in-Charge for Subregion 17
- STATE LEGISLATION—Some states provide greater gender-based equal pay protections than others
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