Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—2d Cir.: Bakery delivery drivers not excluded from coverage under the FAA as transportation workers
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Supply chain shortages: How wrongdoers can steal your secrets
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Washington becomes third jurisdiction to require wage disclosures in job postings
- ARBITRATION—6th Cir.: Employer can’t arbitrate FCA retaliation claim due to inconsistent actions on arbitrability issue, forfeiture of argument about agreement’s scope
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—N.D. Cal.: Social worker with mild cognitive impairment is unable to advance disability claims
- DISCRIMINATION—M.D. Tenn.: Only FMLA claims by one employee advance in suit brought by Tyson Fresh Meats workers
- DISCRIMINATION—N.D.N.Y.: No trial on discrimination, retaliation claims of Walmart employee who identified as ‘Black Jew’
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—N.D. Ill.: Three ‘first-wave bellwether’ plaintiffs advance in female jail workers’ suit alleging unchecked harassment by detainees
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—7th Cir.: Employer not obligated to contribute to benefit funds on behalf of employees hired after CBA expired
- TORT CLAIMS—E.D. Wis.: Worker’s comp exclusivity provision bars ConAgra employee’s claims based on wife’s death from ‘take-home’ COVID, but not estate’s claims
- WAGE-HOUR—SETTLEMENTS—D. Me: Court approves $23 million settlement for Maine bakery distributors
- EEOC NEWS—Agency settles pregnancy discrimination suit for $70K; new suit alleges sexual harassment
- EEOC NEWS—Commission will consider ‘Knocking Down Walls: Discrimination and Harassment in Construction’ on May 17
- EEOC NEWS—May 17 EEO-1 filing deadline will stretch until June 21
- STATE LEGISLATION—CONNECTICUT—New law makes employer-sponsored ‘captive-audience’ meetings on unionization unlawful
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