Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS—8th Cir.: Police officer who sent video critical of BLM protests stated First Amendment claim
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Mass.: Whole Foods’ termination of Muslim supervisor not based on race, national origin or religion
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Neb.: Medtech employee fails to marshal evidence of sex, age discrimination on summary judgment
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—D. Me.: Call center employee advances claims for failure to accommodate, unpaid disability benefits
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—E.D. La.: White team leader was fired for alleged use of the n-word, not as part of conspiracy to meet diversity goals
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—S.D.N.Y.: Demoted medical school residency director cannot advance bias claims
- DISCRIMINATION—RELIGIOUS—S.D.N.Y.: Federal reserve bank employees fired for refusing COVID vaccine advance Title VII, RFRA claims
- DISCRIMINATION—S.D.N.Y.: Fired securities broker alleged joint employer status and plausible discrimination claims against Brazilian holding company
- DOL NEWS—Information sought on sector strategies to meet critical workforce needs across industries
- DOL NEWS—Members appointed to National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
- EEOC NEWS—Commission will consider ‘Navigating Employment Discrimination in AI and Automated Systems: A New Civil Rights Frontier’ on January 31
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—A new dawn for the FTC: eschewing traditional antitrust laws to challenge non-competes using Section 5 powers
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—NLRB concludes exigent circumstances delay, do not eliminate, decisional bargaining
- LABOR PULSE—What at-will employment and tipping have in common… and why unions should care
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—E.D. Pa.: Employee misidentification of who was responsible for severance pay leads to dismissal with prejudice
- WORTH NOTING—Recent developments involving race and national origin discrimination
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