Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—4th Cir.: Fact dispute existed as to whether retiree life insurance coverage was vested for 15-year period for eligible PPG employees
- AGENCY NEWS—Manhattan bar, owner will pay $500K to resolve sexual harassment, other alleged violations
- ARBITRATION—S.D.N.Y.: Timeliness, confidentiality provisions enforceable against former IBM employees alleging age discrimination
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—Tenn. App.: Reformation of profit-sharing agreement for mutual mistake affirmed on clear and convincing standard
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—D. Neb.: No showing employer failed to accommodate employee, but it may have discriminated against him on basis of disability
- DOL NEWS—DOL, CDC, Surgeon General hold crowdsourcing event on ‘long COVID’ workplace challenges
- EEOC NEWS—Women make up 29 percent of federal STEM jobs
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—1st Cir.: Employee’s wage claim survives on appeal, notwithstanding district court’s evidentiary rulings
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—A conjunction is worth thousands of dollars: Recent case highlights significance of ‘and’ vs. ‘or’
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Business necessity of COVID-19 screening testing no longer presumed under EEOC Guidance
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—NLRB: Board vacates prior ruling on legality of employer’s questioning employees regarding work stoppage
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Discharged, pro-life Southwest flight attendant awarded $5.1M in damages against union, airline
- RETALIATION—N.D. Cal.: Deputy district attorney’s Section 1983 suit against county dismissed for lack of Monell liability
- RETALIATION—S.D. Ohio: Grocery store manager unable to advance retaliation, reverse discrimination claims
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