Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—D.C. Cir.: T-Mobile’s disparate application of company policies to restrict employee use of email for union organizing unlawful
- STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES—Future Ready Lawyer webinar explores technological innovation in corporate legal departments after a year of pandemic
- DISCHARGE—Iowa App.: Termination of police dispatcher who used CBD tincture oil containing THC at work upheld
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—2d Cir.: Senior director failed to plead age or protected speech was but-for cause of his termination
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—3d Cir.: Discharged 62-year-old manager’s poor performance, not bias or retaliation, basis for firing
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—S.D. Ohio: Employee seeking work-from-home accommodations advances bias claims
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—E.D. La.: Coworker’s corroboration bolsters black employee’s claim of race-based supervisory harassment
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—NLRB: Union not entitled to information related to AWOL employee prior to scheduled investigatory interview
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—N.D. Ill.: Employee’s $2.5M retirement benefits claim against Walgreens survives dismissal
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—N. D. Tex.: No preliminary injunction against former execs who left to form their own business venture
- SAFETY—8th Cir.: OSHA citation issued to HVAC company after its worker fell through a hole in a roof upheld
- WORTH NOTING—Cases of note involving the Family and Medical Leave Act
- EEOC NEWS—Medical practice will pay $50K to resolve alleged retaliation for reporting inappropriate touching
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Gaming companies face lawsuit for purported sexual harassment, equal pay violations
- NLRB NEWS—How to track election petitions and results, ULP charges filed
- OSHA NEWS—After apprentice working on crane dies in preventable tragedy, employer faces $89K fine
- SENATE NEWS—PRO Act: Helping workers but hurting the small business franchise model?
- SURVEYS—Health reform should build on current employer-provided system, voters say
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