Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—7th Cir.: No revival of Black dental assistant’s Title VII, Sec. 1981 claims arising from negative performance reviews
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—10 takeaways as New Jersey set to drastically limit non-competes and other restrictive covenants
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Maryland and Delaware become the 10th and 11th states to provide paid family and medical leave
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—M.D.N.C.: No ADA trial for ‘claustrophobic’ employee denied request to work at front desk
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—4th Cir.: Black firefighter’s placement in paramedic internship behind White coworkers was not race-based
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—N.D. Ohio: Employee cannot advance racial discrimination claims after employment offer rescinded
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—M.D. Fla.: Manager’s infrequent touching of female sales rep, along with crude jokes, insufficient to create HWE
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—Huge list of violations justified termination
- LABOR—NLRB WEEKLY SUMMARY—Weekly summary of NLRB decisions
- PROCEDURE—N.D. Tex.: Federal court agreed to consider Texas’ challenge to HHS guidance on transgender discrimination
- RETALIATION—M.D. La.: Saleswoman who repeatedly raised concerns about treatment of Black coworkers advances suit
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—6th Cir.: Agricultural workers’ pesticide poisoning claims time-barred by Tennessee law
- TORT CLAIMS—N.D. Ind.: Dismissal denied in automotive marketing software dispute
- TORT CLAIMS—W.D. Tex.: Biotechnology developer denied preliminary injunction in trade secret misappropriation suit against former employee
- USERRA, VETERANS—W.D. Wash.: Service members lawfully denied accrual of sick time and vacation during military absences under USERRA
- DOL NEWS—$343K recovered in back wages and damages to resolve FLSA, FMLA violations
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—Cap reached on supplemental H-2B returning worker visas for second half of 2022
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—McDonald’s franchisee will pay $40K penalty to resolve work authorization discrimination allegations
- REPORTS—Army should issue single SHARP program regulation, streamline implementation
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