Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—3d Cir.: Court joins seven sister circuits in using ERISA definition of ‘employer’ for purposes of MPPAA
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—NLRB To Decide Whether Misclassification Is Standalone Violation of the NLRA
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Washington State Rideshare Businesses Achieve Historic Compromise to Guarantee Wages in Exchange for Contractor Status
- DISCHARGE—S.D. Ind.: Engineer was terminated for a failed drug test, not because of a disability
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—Iowa App.: Terminated long-time employee defeats summary judgment for age discrimination claim on appeal
- DISCRIMINATION—D.D.C.: Black, female Amazon employee’s Section 1981 claim against another employee survives dismissal based on him pulling her hair
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—E.D. La.: Coworkers’ affidavits bolster Black postal worker’s hostile environment claim, but other claims tossed
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—W.D. Wash.: Salesman RIF’d at start of pandemic, on same day he returned from leave, advances FMLA, disability bias claims
- LABOR—ARBITRATION—Milwaukee, fearing widespread unrest, had right to cancel police officers’ off-days
- RETALIATION—M.D. Pa.: Radiation therapist who complained of discrimination against patients can’t advance claims
- WAGE-HOUR—MINIMUM WAGE—D.P.R.: Pizza delivery driver unable to show employer violated FLSA minimum wage provisions
- DOL NEWS—Labor Department will follow Bostock, interpret Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to include sexual orientation discrimination
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—H-2B cap supplemented with 35,000 more visas for second half of FY 2022
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