Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—Final rule broadens civil money penalties applicable when employers unlawfully take employees’ tips
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Congressional proposal could mean massive increase to workplace safety penalties
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—New Texas law expands potential liability for sexual harassment
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Voluntary paid leave: a different way
- DISCRIMINATION—6th Cir.: Insinuation that Syrian/Muslim Amazon employee mistreated his wife was not marital bias
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Kan.: Walmart manager went from ‘teasing’ the ‘crazy HR lady’ to being unpredictable and explosive
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—7th Cir.: Teachers’ union fails to rebut school board’s legitimate business justification for layoffs
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—W.D. Pa.: Attorney fired after bout with COVID, request to work remotely from Slovenia, advances ADA, FMLA claims
- PROCEDURE—N.D. Ohio: Amazon fulfillment center workers’ wage claims based on time spent in security screenings dismissed
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—N.D. Ohio: Amazon warehouse employees denied conditional certification of collective action for unpaid work during meal breaks
- WAGE-HOUR—WORKING TIME—Wash. App.: Out-of-town trips by port employees to observe crane manufacture constituted ‘hours worked’
- AGENCY NEWS—Industrial laundry will pay $400K to workers fired, denied sick pay for quarantining with COVID-19
- DOJ NEWS—Three indicted in alleged multi-state conspiracy using forced labor of Mexican agricultural workers
- STATE LEGISLATION—CALIFORNIA—Governor signs into law warehouse worker protections related to production quotas
- WHITE HOUSE NEWS—President Biden names Morgan Lewis attorney to serve as OSHRC Commissioner
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