Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- WAGE-HOUR—EXEMPTIONS—U.S.: Employee paid daily rate was not exempt from overtime since ‘salary’ test failed
- ARBITRATION—S.D.N.Y.: Attorney must arbitrate his FMLA, disability discrimination claims against Wilson Elser
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—D. Ariz.: Non-parties to tax prep franchise agreements could not be enjoined
- DISCRIMINATION—SEX—D. Ariz.: Male court employee not entitled to summary judgment due to fact issues about telecommuting requests, comparators
- DOL NEWS—OSHA will triage whistleblower complaints under new year-long pilot program
- DOL NEWS—Two Georgia employers on the hook for FMLA, H-2A violations
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $988K owed to 415 workers under federal wage and hour laws
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Job applicants sue Ford Motor Company under rarely-cited Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Oregon paid family and medical leave insurance program is here
- LABOR PULSE—Florida’s largest union is in the Governor’s crosshairs
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—NLRB: Employer’s offer of severance packages found unlawful, as Board reverses Trump-era course
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—4th Cir.: Maryland’s statutes do not create a contractual right to prescription drug benefits
- TORT CLAIMS—Cal. App.: Defamation claims against college denied where statements were protected under California law
- WAGE-HOUR—N.D. Ala.: Plumbers fail to tighten legal leakiness in overtime, retaliation, contract claims
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—9th Cir.: Defense contractor employee fired after reporting coworker’s shove can’t revive DCWPA claim
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