Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—2d Cir.: Withdrawal liability didn’t attach to non-employer that acquired assets of employer that later went bankrupt
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Florida enacts law that limits employers' ability to mandate vaccinations
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Illinois: Leaning forward into 2022 - issues you may have missed
- COVERAGE, LIABILITY—M.D. Pa.: Employee benefit fund could be liable under Title VII, ADA for denying gender confirmation surgery
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—N.D. Ill.: Employer must face retaliation claim by African-American woman who worked as locomotive engineer
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—E.D. Va.: Employee fired after reporting harassment can’t advance hostile environment, retaliation claims
- DISCRIMINATION—W.D. Pa.: Treatment of employee who took breast-pumping breaks not sufficient to constitute hostile environment
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—W.D. Tex.: Triable fact issues exist as to location of remote employee’s worksite and her eligibility under the FMLA
- PROCEDURE—2d Cir.: Court endorses Cheeks review of plaintiff’s motion to unilaterally dismiss FLSA claims
- RETALIATION—D. Kan.: Educators allegedly fired for advocacy actions following their daughter’s on-campus sexual assault advance federal claims
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—4th Cir.: Lab did not act knowingly when it failed to aggregate drug discounts
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—Ky. Sup. Ct.: Faculty member unable to show reported violations of university administrative regulation were protected whistleblowing
- DOJ NEWS—Democratic lawmakers want opinion that opposes ERA ratification withdrawn
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—Homeland Security to allow additional 20,000 H-2B visas for FY 2022
- STATE REGULATIONS—PENNSYLVANIA—Governor accelerates $15 minimum wage for Commonwealth employees, backs statewide increase
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