Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—U.S.: OSHA large employer COVID vaccine mandate stayed
- AGENCY NEWS—EEOC and OFCCP launch hiring initiative to help advance equal employment opportunities
- DISCHARGE—N.D. Ill.: Hospital worker mostly defeats bid to dismiss claims over alleged COVID-19-related firing
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—W.D. Pa.: Employee terminated in workforce reduction defeats summary judgment
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—W.D. La.: Employer not required to provide indefinite leave to manager with epilepsy
- DISCRIMINATION—E.D. Pa.: Female Penn professor denied tenure moves toward trial with suit over sex and familial status bias
- DOL NEWS—New guidance explains parameters of $15 minimum wage requirement for government contracts
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—N.D. Ill.: Employee not allowed to return after positive COVID test advances EPLSA, FMLA claims; ADA claim dismissed
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—The Top Five Most Intriguing Developments In EEOC-Initiated Litigation In 2021 (And Our Annual EEOC Enforcement Report)
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Three Wage and Hour Predictions For 2022: Pay Incentive Class Actions, Cryptocurrency Pay, And Multistate Class Actions
- HOUSE NEWS—Lawmakers press President Biden to make OSHA’s healthcare ETS permanent
- LABOR—NLRB WEEKLY SUMMARY—Weekly summary of NLRB decisions
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—MLB faces ‘monopsony cartel’ class action alleging wage-hour, antitrust violations
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—U.S.: ‘Dual-status military technician’ can’t avoid reduction in Social Security benefits by windfall provision
- PROCEDURE—D. Col.: Individuals seeking exemption from vaccination had right to file pleadings under pseudonyms
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—D.R.I.: Rhode Island healthcare workers’ bid to enjoin enforcement of state’s COVID-19 mandate nixed
- TRADE SECRETS—N.D. Ill.: Bank fails to sufficiently plead trade secret misappropriation against former employees
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—Other litigation developments
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—9th Cir.: Employee’s procedural due process claim against officials of state agency for botched whistleblower investigation revived
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