Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—D.C. Cir.: Union unable to upset Board’s approval of McDonald’s settlement that avoided joint employer determination
- ARBITRATION—N.D. Ala.: Former employee must arbitrate claims over paternity leave
- DISCHARGE—S.D. Ohio: Female IT employee fired ostensibly due to missed deadlines gets trial on sex discrimination, retaliation claims
- DISCHARGE—Wis. App.: Quality control tech, terminated after admitting sexual assault history, denied reinstatement, back pay
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—W.D. Mo.: Diabetic pharmacist denied request to bring service dog to work advances ADA claim
- DISCRIMINATION—SEX—5th Cir.: Clinical associate professor can’t revive gender bias and retaliation claims against Tulane
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $1.7M in back wages, damages for FLSA, temporary worker violations
- EEOC NEWS—Commission, OFCCP roundtable will address barriers faced by previously unemployed in entering workforce
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—Cal. App.: In former prosecutor’s whistleblower suit, current DA can be deposed about county’s alleged pressure to alter his testimony
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Maryland passes expansive paid family leave law
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—USDOL's proposed rewrite of Davis-Bacon enforcement rules: back to the 1970's
- LABOR NEWS—Apple retail workers in Atlanta become first to seek union representation
- LABOR PULSE—Are ‘green jobs’ the solution to everything?
- LABOR—NLRB WEEKLY SUMMARY—Weekly summary of NLRB decisions
- LABOR—ORGANIZING, ELECTIONS—NLRB.: Board agent’s misrepresentation about mail ballot status didn’t affect election outcome
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTRICES—8th Cir.: Employer unlawfully discharged ‘wildcat’ strikers seeking to enforce seniority pay provisions
- SENATE NEWS—Democratic senators seek answers on ‘anticompetitive’ training repayment agreements
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—S.D.N.Y.: Employee who worked remotely from another state due to pandemic could not establish requisite ‘impact’ in New York
- USERRA, VETERANS—D.N.J.: National Guard member’s bias suit based on excessive discipline advances
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—N.D. Cal.: $4.9 million settlement of real estate appraisers’ misclassification claims approved
- WORTH NOTING—Cases of note dealing with disability discrimination
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