Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—7th Cir.: Correctional officer required to avoid significant chance of violence can’t perform essential job function
- AGENCY NEWS—Franchise restaurants pay $2.2M to settle unpaid wages allegations
- DISCHARGE—E.D. Pa.: Black employee complained of bias but failed to rebut termination due to excessive tardiness, cell-phone misuse, and insubordination
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—D. Kan.: AutoZone responded reasonably to consensual massage turned non-consensual
- DISCRIMINATION—SEX—W.D. Pa.: Despite being sole female in work area, employee’s general allegations of being called a ‘bitch’ didn’t support HWE claim
- DOL NEWS—Court orders healthcare company, president, owner to restore $85K to 401(k) plan
- EEOC NEWS—Lawsuits reap $752K in damages for workers in three consent decrees
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—DOL proposes a roll back of Trump-era FLSA independent contractor rule
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Latest NLRB general counsel memorandum directs regions to attempt to settle 10(j) injunctions before going to court
- PROCEDURE—NLRB: Decision vacated due to member’s financial conflict, but subsequent actions of parties not disturbed
- PUBLIC EMPLOYEES—N.Y. Sup.: New York judge says NYC’s public employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate was unconstitutional
- RETALIATION—2d Cir.: Court changes effect, but not result, in new opinion on Delta flight attendant’s appeal
- SURVEYS—Employees basing career decisions on employer’s response to Roe being overturned
- TORT CLAIMS—S.D. Cal.: Federal court dismisses trade secret lawsuit brought by tissue processing lab
- WHITE-COLLAR CRIME—D. Conn.: Grand jury proceedings to be reviewed in aerospace industry ‘no-poach’ suit
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