Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—NLRB: Layoff of unit employees in retaliation for union’s grievance was unlawful
- DISCRIMINATION—3d Cir.: Employees not comparable where airline only knew of one worker’s Facebook posts
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—N.D. Ill.: Bank employee, whose coworker wife has MS, advances associational discrimination claim
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $600K in back wages for 1,823 workers due to reported FLSA violations
- EEOC NEWS—Sexual harassment, race discrimination suits settled for $925K; disability, age cases filed
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—N.D. Ill.: Railway unable to bar evidence of BIPA liability for third party’s acts
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—New York City Proposes Regulations To Clarify Requirements For Using Automated Employment Decision Tools
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—OFCCP Announces ‘Minor’ Changes to Directive on Functional Affirmative Action Plans
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—New legislation would protect election workers from intimidation and threats
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—Farm labor contractor pleads guilty in RICO forced labor conspiracy targeting H-2A workers
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—NLRB: Construction company unlawfully fired employee in reprisal for coworkers’ protected activity
- OSHA NEWS—Safety agency proposes $1.36M in penalties following worker deaths
- PROCEDURE—Cal. App.: Special verdict question concerning executive exemption defense framed too narrowly
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—E.D. Tex: Mitigation component of instruction on compensatory damages for nonpecuniary harm retained despite EEOC’s objection
- RETALIATION—11th Cir.: District court applied wrong standard to retaliation-based hostile work environment claim
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—Other litigation developments
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