Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- LABOR—ORGANIZING, ELECTIONS—NLRB: Board creates exception to rule against counting late ballots in mail elections
- ARBITRATION—E.D.N.Y.: Temporary worker must arbitrate her overtime claims against staffing firm, its client
- DISCHARGE—N.D. Cal.: Female employee’s constructive discharge claim against news outlet Al Jazeera survives dismissal
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—8th Cir.: Hospital employee denied request to telework during MS flare-ups can’t revive ADA claim
- DISCRIMINATION—PAY—E.D. Va.: Virginia agency faces challenges to pay practices brought by female employees
- DOL NEWS—Initiative has found violations in 80 percent of care industry investigations, recovered $28.6M
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—E.D. Wis.: Bus operator who resigned over ‘repeated’ documentation requests advances FMLA claims
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Does the ADA Force Employers to Allow Employees with Medical Restrictions to Overrule Their Doctors?
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—EEOC Focuses on Hiring Bias Claims: A 5-Step Compliance Plan for Staffing Firms
- INDUSTRY NEWS, TRENDS—Microsoft announces implementation plan built on recommendations regarding its sexual harassment, gender discrimination policies and practices
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—Failure to cooperate justified termination
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Transgender scholar alleges discrimination in complaint against Kent State University
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—W.D. Wash.: Transgender class certified in suit alleging Blue Cross coverage discrimination
- PROCEDURE—10th Cir.: Religious school’s petition for rehearing en banc denied
- REPORTS—USITC releases report on distributional effects of trade and trade policy on U.S. workers in underrepresented and underserved communities
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