Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—7th Cir.: Corrections officer may have been discouraged from taking FMLA leave; interference claim revived
- CLASS ACTIONS—3d Cir.: Plan participants allowed to challenge employer’s investment options, even though they didn’t invest in all
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Alaska: Female Vietnamese seasonal fire dispatcher with a mental disability advances some of her non-selection claims to trial
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Mass.: Fired radiologist advances age, but not gender or disability claims, against university medical group
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—N.D. Ala.: Female security guard who alleged a Koch Foods worker ‘mashed his hand on her breast’ sees HWE claim dismissed
- EEOC NEWS—Online mediation resulted in higher satisfaction, better value settlements
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—5 tips for protecting your trade secrets without an enforceable noncompete agreement
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Granting religious accommodations for COVID-19: What employers need to know
- INDUSTRY NEWS, TRENDS—Democratic lawmakers press app-based driving and delivery companies to prioritize driver safety
- LABOR NEWS—GM workers in Silao, Mexico, approve CBA facilitated by Rapid Response Labor Mechanism
- PRIVACY—2d Cir.: Police union not entitled to preliminary injunction halting Connecticut law requiring release of certain disciplinary records
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—Cal. App.: $58 million award for production assistant who suffered sexual harassment, battery, upheld on appeal
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—Mass. App.: Trial court misapplied New Hampshire law to prejudgment interest where Massachusetts had stronger interest
- RETALIATION—S.D. Miss.: Employee fired for lying about falsifying medical note, not for reporting sexual harassment
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