Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—Justices parse through role of prejudice in delayed arbitration request
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Benefits issues that arise upon misclassification of employees
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Federal court decision protects independent contractor status
- DISCHARGE—9th Cir.: Employee’s advocacy for other employees led to NLRB preemption of wrongful termination complaint
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—E.D. Cal.: Employee’s failure to accommodate claim survives summary judgment; but no showing employer effectively terminated employee
- DISCRIMINATION—SEX—C.D. Ill.: Female employee whose position was eliminated over ‘less-senior’ male advances bias claim
- LABOR—LAYOFFS—M.D. Fla.: Employer failed to show WARN Act’s natural disaster exception applied to COVID-related layoffs
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—NLRB: Employer unlawfully created impression of surveillance and made threats of reprisals for union activity
- WAGE-HOUR—MINIMUM WAGE—11th Cir.: Mandatory service charge applied to customers’ bills by restaurant was not ‘tip’
- DOJ NEWS—Contractor sentenced to probation, home confinement for lying to OSHA
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—House passes CROWN Act with bipartisan vote to prohibit hairstyle discrimination
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—House votes to end forced arbitration in employment, consumer, antitrust, civil rights disputes
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—OFCCP proposal would modify rigid evidentiary standards, definitions imposed by 2020 final rule
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