Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—1st Cir.: Wrongly excluded documents support revival of ‘tall black’ sales rep’s race bias claim
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—D. Or.: Employer obtains TRO preventing employee from working for competitor
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—D.N.J.: Jury may decide whether sales exec terminated for failure to meet performance goals or due to age bias?
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—3d Cir.: Police applicant advances claim that psychological test was discriminatory
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—D. Md.: Architect’s firing not due to disability, but possibly retaliatory
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—1st Cir.: Production tech fired week after leave expired can’t revive ADA, FMLA claims
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—Employee improperly used work computer for private business, but termination was too harsh a penalty
- PRIVACY—S.D. Ill.: Union employee’s claim that biometric timekeeping violated BIPA preempted by LMRA
- PROCEDURE—M.D. Pa.: Blackberry fails to prove that former sales employee left for a competitor
- RETALIATION—W.D. Wash.: Sales manager advances claim he was fired after reporting race bias in capping of Black sales rep’s commission
- DOJ NEWS—Tallahatchie County to provide back pay to Black deputy sheriffs to remedy unequal pay rates
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—Effective date of DOL’s final independent contractor rule is delayed to May 7, 2021
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—County manager in New Mexico sued over mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for first responders
- OFCCP NEWS—Agency removes focused reviews, compliance checks from Supply and Service Scheduling List
- OSHA NEWS—Company ordered to reinstate whistleblowers who refused to drive unsafe vehicles, and pay back wages, punitive damages
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