Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—COVID-19 stimulus package gets final approval, heads to President Biden’s desk
- ARBITRATION—S.D.N.Y.: Lyft driver exempt from FAA, but must arbitrate claims under New York law
- ARBITRATION—S.D.N.Y.: New York City Uber drivers must arbitrate their breach of contract claims individually
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—W.D. Wash.: City may have failed to accommodate attorney’s chronic pain
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—E.D. Tex.: Driver’s claim of harassment by customer’s employee dropped from case
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—D. Conn.: Springing secret recording on company owner during deposition results in preclusion order
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—Truck driver entitled to a second chance after testing positive for cocaine
- LABOR—UNIONS, MEMBERS—7th Cir.: Union’s claim than Janus forced it to represent nonmembers for free dismissed for lack of injury
- TORT CLAIMS—8th Cir.: Oil and gas employee can’t bring tort claims against employer who also owned faulty machine
- WAGE-HOUR—5th Cir.: FLSA preempts corrections employees’ state law wage-related tort claims
- WAGE-HOUR—N.D. Ind.: Exotic dancers failed to establish individual coverage under FLSA; unpaid wage claims against club fail
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $460,592 in back wages for 133 workers due to FLSA, H-2B violations
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—PRO Act clears House with Republican support
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Equal Rights Amendment lawsuit dismissed over standing, deadline issues
- SENATE NEWS—Hearing on Julie Su’s nomination for Deputy Secretary of Labor slated for March 16
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