Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—Proposal would limit non-tipped work to 20 percent or 30 continuous minutes for tip credit
- ARBITRATION—D. Ariz.: E-signature bound network engineer to arbitration agreement with staffing company
- CLASS ACTIONS—S.D. Ohio: Foreign nurses advance class action claims for human trafficking against healthcare staffing recruiter
- CLASS ACTIONS—U.S.: NCAA unable to overturn injunction against rules restricting education-related benefits
- COVERAGE, LIABILITY—U.S.: No aiding and abetting claim against U.S. companies for former child slaves on Ivory Coast cocoa farms
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—E.D. Mich.: Flight attendant’s retaliation claims fail where absences and disciplinary action were two years apart
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—11th Cir.: Thwarting employee’s attempts to depose high-ranking executive was abuse of court’s discretion
- LABOR—STRIKES, LOCKOUTS—4th Cir.: Employer can’t lockout employees over permissive subject of bargaining
- PROCEDURE—E.D. Cal.: Union Pacific Railroad Co. must defend locomotive engineer’s lawsuit in state court because of non-diverse anonymous defendant
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—New York revises COVID-19 reopening guidance & HERO Act changes on the way
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—OSHA issues federal COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Using artificial intelligence to track growing remote workforce and related litigation implications
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—House passes expanded ESG bill with no room to spare
- HOUSE NEWS—Dems urge President Biden to ban mandatory arbitration for federal contract workers
- NLRB NEWS—Advice memos discuss COVID-19 complaints, checkoff authorization, grievances under after-acquired clause
- STATE REGULATIONS—CALIFORNIA—ETS revised in light of increase in COVID-19 vaccinations
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