Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—9th Cir.: After Vazquez, court lifts stay in Grubhub case and calls for new employee status determination
- STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES—ADA expert discusses workplace disability issues with an eye on COVID-19 implications
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Sometimes less is more: background check disclosures can go too far and lead to FCRA violations
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—The arbitration whipsaw continues – court reinstates portions of California prohibition of mandatory arbitration agreements
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—The NLRB and Congress move to protect union organizing and employees through enhanced remedies for both and increased penalties for employers
- COVERAGE, LIABILITY—M.D. Fla.: Former police officer’s RICO claim against supervisors fails
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—N.D. Ala.: 62-year-old assistant police chief, passed over for chief’s job in favor of 32-year-old, advances bias claim
- DISCRIMINATION—PREGNANCY—D. Ariz.: Employee fired two weeks after confirming pregnancy takes PDA claim to trial
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—S.D.N.Y.: White fire inspectors claiming associational discrimination axed from race bias class suit
- PROCEDURE—W.D.N.Y.: RICO claim stemming from truck driver’s failed drug test following use of CBD product fails; but fraud claim survives
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—Effective date of DOL’s rescission of 2020 joint-employer rule extended to October 5
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—SEIU lawsuit challenges NLRB’s joint-employer rule under APA
- OFCCP NEWS—ABM Janitorial Services sued for systemic race discrimination against Black applicants
- OSHA NEWS—Contractor faces $95K crane safety violation after worker dies in fall, another severely injured
- OSHA NEWS—OSHA taking action to protect workers from extreme heat
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