Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—2d Cir.: Court declines to resurrect claim of Disney employee terminated and denied severance after disabling stroke
- STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES—Jackson Lewis attorneys take a look back at significant class action developments in 2021
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—California considers Assembly Bill 1993 requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination status in employment
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Minimum wage for US federal contractors raised to $15 on January 30; immediately challenged by several states
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—M.D. Tenn.: Employer granted TRO barring former employee from competing or disclosing certain confidential information for two years
- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS—S.D. Ill.: School district not liable for superintendent’s retaliation against custodian’s protest over kneeling-during-anthem policy
- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS—S.D.N.Y.: COVID vaccination mandate found to be lawful condition of employment
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—4th Cir.: Union trustees denied bid to arbitrate dispute over which employers are covered by employee benefit trust funds
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—N.D. Tex.: No stay of preliminary injunction issued in Navy Seals’ COVID-19 vax religious objection suit
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—S.D. Ohio: School paraprofessionals get injunctive relief against policy banning clothing with social statements
- RETALIATION—N.D. Ind.: Nurse manager at county jail, fired after incendiary Facebook post, advances retaliation claim
- RETALIATION—W.D. Mo.: Employee terminated in RIF may pursue retaliation claim stemming from prior settlement of wage suit
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—C.D. Cal.: Hyatt employees furloughed during pandemic can’t advance state wage-law claims
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $675K in back wages, damages for FLSA, H-2A, MSPA violations
- EEOC NEWS—Report on older workers in the federal workforce draws comparisons with private sector
- NLRB NEWS—AG coalition wants standard with more protection against worker misclassification as independent contractor
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