Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—Updated pandemic guidance is ‘stronger,’ recommends incorporating workers in protection program development and implementation
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—N.D. Ind.: Ambiguity precludes cross-claims for SJ in terminated executive’s breach of contract claim
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—3d Cir.: Doctor’s allegation that replacements were ‘significantly younger’ was enough; no need to allege their ages
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—W.D. Ky.: No causal link between employee’s FMLA leave and his termination for sleeping on job
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—E.D. Pa.: City employee entitled to see personnel files, but only under protective order
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—E.D. Ky.: Employer’s attempts to quash union organizing efforts at plant enjoined
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—10th Cir.: Statutory settlement offer enforceable despite disagreement over whether employee waived other claims
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—Wash. Sup. Ct.: Anti-SLAPP statute protected law firm hired to conduct a state agency’s sexual harassment investigation
- WORTH NOTING—Recent race discrimination cases of interest
- DOJ NEWS—Former UAW president nets a year in prison, $342K in restitution for embezzlement scheme
- DOL NEWS—WHD’s PAID program scrapped
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—Dems push for $15B in workforce development funding to respond to pandemic-spurred unemployment crisis
- NLRB NEWS—How to track election petitions and results, ULP charges filed
- SUPREME COURT NEWS—Petition asks how much N-word is enough for a hostile work environment?
- WHITE HOUSE NEWS—President Biden signs Executive Orders on health care access and affordability
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