Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- LABOR—ORGANIZING, ELECTIONS—NLRB: Board modifies test whether additional employees must be included in petitioned-for unit
- AGENCY NEWS—Washington AG takes Alaska Airlines employee’s nonbinary, gender fluid discrimination allegations to ALJ
- ARBITRATION—D. N.M.: Oil industry staffing agency loses bid to compel arbitration in wage dispute
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Md.: HR VP, told to retire to solve diversity problem, takes race and sex claims to trial
- DISCRIMINATION—PAY—W.D.N.C.: Sales manager who made more than three males cannot proceed with EPA claim
- DISCRIMINATION—S.D. Tex.: NASA failed to promote Hispanic male engineer due to his inferior ‘soft skills,’ not for discriminatory reasons
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—D. Idaho: Jury finding employer violated FMLA, bias laws in firing longtime worker upheld
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—S.D. Ohio: Driver who sought unemployment benefits during pandemic failed to show adverse employer action
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Do we finally have a final answer on ESG investments and ERISA's fiduciary duties?
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Holiday safety liabilities and tips to limit employer liability at company parties
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—IT recruiter to pay $26K civil penalty to resolve allegedly discriminatory job postings
- LABOR PULSE—Ho, Ho, Ho! Uncle Sam nixed a rail strike just before Christmas
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Twitter employees to get notice of WARN litigation before signing layoff claims releases
- PROCEDURE—7th Cir.: State action filed against Illinois Department of Transportation by terminated employee dismissed for lack of jurisdiction
- TRADE SECRETS—D. Md.: Maker of airline auditing software again denied damages from employee who took information
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