Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—6th Cir.: Medical leave was reasonable accommodation for nurse who suffered asthma flare-up
- DISCRIMINATION—D.C. Cir.: Settlement agreement didn’t release Title VII claims related to employee’s removal
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—N.D. Ill.: Disputes about whether transit worker was qualified and whether the accommodation sought was reasonable advance claim to trial
- DISCRIMINATION—NATIONAL ORIGIN—E.D. La.: Surveyor advances claim of national origin discrimination based on salary
- DISCRIMINATION—S.D.N.Y.: No evidence of discrimination after employee terminated following unapproved vacation
- DISCRIMINATION—SEX—Iowa Sup. Ct.: State’s high court declines to apply U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of ‘sex’ discrimination in Bostock to state law
- EEOC NEWS—Disability, pregnancy discrimination allegations settled for $200K; new suits allege ADA, Title VII violations
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Massachusetts Employers Beware! Treble Damages are Available When Employers Are Even One Day Late with Final Wage Payment to Employee
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Third Circuit Takes Supreme Court Cue and Rejects ‘Implied’ Union Contracts
- LABOR—UNIONS, UNION MEMBERS—D. Nev.: Journeyman’s claims against union and company involving ‘no dispatch’ letter fail to advance
- NLRB NEWS—General Counsel will ask Board to correct 1948 ruling on captive-audience meetings
- OSHA NEWS—Trucking company must pay $145K to drivers disciplined when too sick, fatigued to drive
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—5th Cir.: Preliminary injunction against Biden’s federal worker vaccine mandate vacated
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—La. App.: Corporate attorney had client’s permission to release employee’s debt
- RETALIATION—M.D. Tenn.: Managers fired after reporting general manager for staring at worker’s backside advance claims
- RETALIATION—S.D. Ohio: Scoring inconsistencies by Air Force hiring committee members with knowledge of EEO activity send attorney’s suit to trial
- SENATE NEWS—Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed for U.S. Supreme Court
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—Minn. Sup. Ct.: Though acknowledging debate about continued viability of McDonnell Douglas framework, court applies it to state law whistleblower claim
- WHITE HOUSE NEWS—Nomination of David Weil as Wage and Hour Administrator withdrawn after cloture rejected
- WORTH NOTING—Cases of note dealing with wage-hour issues
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