Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- WAGE-HOUR—WORKING TIME—9th Cir.: Call center employees’ time turning on computers was compensable under FLSA
- BENEFITS NEWS—Ohio union pension plan to receive $32.7M under Special Financial Assistance Program
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—E.D. Pa.: Dispatch specialist fired after additional leave request advances ADA claims
- DISCRIMINATION—E.D. Tenn.: Female employee’s FMLA claims survive summary judgment, no evidence of hostile work environment or protected activity
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—N.D. Ala.: Jail guard was fired for repeated use of excessive force, not because of race or sex
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—N.D. Tex.: No trial for city employee fired after expiration of FFCRA leave
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—EEOC releases updated workplace discrimination poster
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Supreme Court questions whether highly compensated oil rig worker is overtime exempt
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—Comment period on DOL’s FLSA independent contractor proposal extended to December 13
- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS—5th Cir.: SEC ALJ proceedings still unavailable as court denies rehearing en banc
- INDUSTRY NEWS, TRENDS—Littler expert seeks investigation after former EEOC GC warns against abortion-related travel benefits
- LABOR NEWS—IAM and Southwest Airlines reach tentative ‘industry-leading contract’
- PENSION AND BENEFIT PLANS—M.D.N.C.: Court denies motion to stay injunction against enforcement of state health plan’s exclusion for medically necessary services for gender dysphoria
- RETALIATION—D.N.M.: Janitor advances retaliation, defamation claims following wife’s complaints of sexual harassment by facility manager
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—E.D. Wash.: Small business consulting firm fails to obtain TRO in trade secret misappropriation suit against former employees
- STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES—Supreme Court impacts ESG issues and is poised to do so again
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