Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—8th Cir.: Nominal damages are not recoverable for FMLA interference claim
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Illinois Expands Family Bereavement Leave for Employees
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—U.S. Court of Appeals Offers Guidance on Applicability of Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws to Out-of-State Workers
- ARBITRATION—D. Md.: Car dealership’s motion to compel arbitration granted in case involving former manager’s complaints about sexual harassment
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—M.D. Pa.: No ADA hostile environment claim for speech pathologist fired after COVID-related absences
- DISCRIMINATION—PREGNANCY—D. Kan.: Bank teller can’t advance discrimination claims after termination for modifying a vault log
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—D. Kan.: Secret recording of meeting ‘flatly’ contradicted report that led to Black plastic surgeon’s termination
- EMPLOYEE STATUS—D.N.J.: Applying ‘ABC’ test, court finds commercial truck drivers were misclassified as independent contractors
- LABOR—ORGANIZING, ELECTIONS—NLRB: Petitioned-for unit of cable company employees enjoyed distinct internal community of interest
- RETALIATION—S.D. Ind.: Postal worker’s FMLA retaliation claim fails for lack of damages or constructive demotion
- TORT CLAIMS—N.D. Ill.: County employee plausibly alleges defamation per quod claims based on statements in termination letter
- BENEFITS NEWS—FTC launches inquiry into PBMs on access and affordability of medicine
- BENEFITS NEWS—IRS announces new 90-day pre-examination compliance pilot
- DOL NEWS—Comments sought regarding proposed revision to prevailing wage rate ICR
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