Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—1st Cir.: No injunction pending appeal for Mass General Brigham employees denied COVID vaccine exemption requests
- LABOR PULSE—Rethinking Private-Sector Unionism’s Road in 2022
- Note to Subscribers
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Florida passes legislation banning vaccine mandates: What employers need to know
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Impact of the Fifth Circuit's Swales decision on the FLSA collective action certification process
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—New York Department of Labor attempts to prohibit drug testing for cannabis, employment actions against some employees who are impaired at work
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—7th Cir.: University athletic directors rejected coaching applicant due to his poor phone interview, not his age
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—E.D. La.: Sheriff granted summary judgment against disparate treatment claims of deputy with PTSD
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—D. Ariz.: Amazon HR employee advances some claims of race and sex bias
- DISCRIMINATION—RELIGIOUS—E.D. Wis.: LPN fired for refusing COVID-19 testing advances religious bias claim
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—11th Cir.: Surgeon fired for refusing trauma patients, not in retaliation for FMLA leave
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—E.D. Ky.—Employee’s temporal proximity argument failed to establish causal link between her FMLA leave and termination
- LABOR—NLRB WEEKLY SUMMARY—Weekly summary of NLRB decisions
- WAGE-HOUR—SETTLEMENTS—S.D.W.Va.: $11.9 million settlement approved in FLSA case brought by pharmaceutical delivery drivers
- WORTH NOTING—Recent developments involving race and national origin discrimination
- DOJ NEWS—Donut franchise will pay $3K penalty, back pay to resolve work authorization discrimination claim
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—BE HEARD Act reintroduced to curb sexual harassment in the workplace
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—Build Back Better Act clears House with paid leave and worker protection reinforcements
- OSHA NEWS—Company must pay $24K to driver purportedly fired for refusing to exceed safe driving limits
- OSHA NEWS—Employers face $700K in penalties for amputations, toxic exposure, repeated fall hazards
- WHITE HOUSE NEWS—Biden signs Executive Order ensuring availability of qualified federal service workers
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