Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—6th Cir.: Juvenile Court is arm of the state, enjoys sovereign immunity from union’s breach of contract claim
- ARBITRATION—D. Conn.: Stay pending arbitration partially lifted in janitors’ employee misclassification suit
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—E.D. Pa.: Material handler’s accommodation, retaliation claims move forward given uncertainties about job requirements
- DISCRIMINATION—E.D. Mich.: Native American medical examiner investigator advances bias, retaliation claims against chief forensic pathologist
- DISCRIMINATION—RELIGIOUS—M.D. Pa.: Muslim mechanical engineer’s Title VII religious bias claim survives dismissal
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—S.D.N.Y.: Jury to decide whether U.N. school believed employee lied or whether it fired him for FMLA leave
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Equal Pay Day 2022: Key trends in pay equity
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Key employment issues facing employers in the automotive industry in 2022
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—COVID-19 temporary employment verification, Form I-9, policy ending
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—M.D. Tenn.: No TRO for university professor who did not want to return to in-person teaching
- RETALIATION—M.D. Tenn.: Employee gets trial on revived retaliatory HWE claim
- STATE LEGISLATION—WASHINGTON—Legislation would determine rideshare drivers’ employment status, give minimum compensation, paid time off
- WAGE-HOUR—WORKING TIME—D. Or.: Forestry workers’ travel time wage claims highlight differences between Oregon law and Portal-to-Portal Act
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