Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—5th Cir.: Title VII, FMLA claims of Black dispatch supervisor, fired days after requesting FMLA leave, revived
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Minn.: Manager whose name came up during a ‘Me too’ conversation fails on bias claims
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—E.D. Pa.: University faculty member was not entitled to full-time benefits for part-time work
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—N.D. Ind.: Court sidelines white basketball coach’s reverse discrimination claims as not meeting Seventh Circuit’s ‘fuzzy’ standard for such claims
- LABOR—LAYOFFS—D. Minn.: Employees allowed to pursue WARN Act violations against individual owners of trucking company
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—E.D. Mich.: Former FCA employee advances claim COBRA notice was flawed
- WAGE-HOUR—SETTLEMENTS—N.D. Cal: Court preliminarily approves $1.85 million settlement for farm workers
- DOL NEWS—States may waive recovery of overpaid unemployment benefits when recipient not at fault
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—Bill would preempt state law presumptions that independent contractors are ‘employees’
- HOUSE NEWS—‘SECURE 2.0’ gets Ways & Means Committee approval
- INDUSTRY NEWS, TRENDS—Google maps out ‘hybrid workplace’ for return to the office
- NLRB NEWS—Board invites briefs on potential 21-day deadline for filing backpay W-2 forms
- NLRB NEWS—How to track election petitions and results, ULP charges filed
- SURVEYS—Employers eager for return to workplace, survey says employees disagree
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