Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—House passes ‘Speak Out Act’ banning enforcement of pre-dispute NDAs in sexual harassment cases
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—6th Cir.: Autoworker’s calls to report absences due to ‘flare-up’ satisfied FMLA’s notice requirement
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—D. Conn.: Employee’s failure to preserve evidence of noose results in limited sanction
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Considering a Reduction in Force? Time to Revise Your Separation Agreement Template
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Federal Court Decision Holds Transgender Status and Gender Dysphoria May Constitute Disability Under FHA, ADA and Rehabilitation Acts but Plaintiff Failed to Plead Necessary Factual Links
- LABOR NEWS—111 Starbucks’ stores go on strike in ‘largest coordinated action yet’
- LABOR NEWS—Union pension plan manager gets six months home confinement for stealing $140K
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Laid-off Twitter ‘contingent’ workers file WARN Act Class action, claim joint-employer liability
- PROCEDURE—8th Cir.: Employee failed to establish that hostile work environment and discrimination claims were timely filed
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—Ill. App.: Employees’ argument that vaccine does not ‘prevent’ COVID fails to carry the day
- TORT CLAIMS—Tex. App.: Dealership employee failed to show VP’s statements about absences, ‘altercation’ were defamatory
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—Cal. App.: Employer granted motion requiring employee to arbitrate her ‘individual PAGA’ claim
- WAGE-HOUR—OVERTIME—D. Alaska: FLSA does not apply to tribal organization that provides health care services to Alaska Natives and Native Americans
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