Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—Cal. App.: Cashier established fact issue as to whether AutoZone provided reasonable seating to front of store workers
- DISCRIMINATION—E.D. Mich.: Restaurant manager fails to advance discrimination, retaliation claims
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—S.D.N.Y.: Maintenance worker advances race bias and retaliation claims
- EVIDENCE, DISCOVERY—D.D.C.: VA successfully asserts attorney-client, work-product privileges in race and age bias case
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Cooling off … Revisiting employee dress codes in the summertime
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—HHS OCR guidance to 60,000 retail pharmacies: Refusal to fill Rx based on potential pregnancy termination concerns is a civil rights violation, will be investigated
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—Bill would protect freedom, flexibility of independent workers
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—Final rule phases out subminimum wage for NPA workers with disabilities on AbilityOne contracts
- LABOR—UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES—N.D. Ind.: NLRB regional director granted Section 10(j) injunction against employer activities designed to styme union
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Staffing companies challenge NLRB GC’s ‘captive audience’ memo as unconstitutional
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—E.D. Cal.: Night team Home Depot class provisionally certified, $750,000 proposed settlement rejected
- WAGE-HOUR—D. Md.: Wage suppression, unlawful exchange of compensation claims largely go forward against poultry processors
- WAGE-HOUR—D.D.C.: Crawfish peelers convince court of their standing to contest method for calculating prevailing wages for H-2B visas
- WAGE-HOUR—OVERTIME—M.D. Fla.: Employee’s FLSA overtime claim fails for lack of evidence he worked any overtime
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—7th Cir.: Relator’s FCA suit fails in absence of false statements made to the federal government
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