Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—9th Cir.: Per diem payments for ‘traveling clinicians’ were improperly excluded from calculation of overtime pay
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—E.D. Mo.: Employee fired for Facebook conversation will not take race or disability claims to trial
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—D. Mass.: No race bias, retaliation claims for Whole Foods employees banned from wearing BLM attire
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—N.D. Tex.: Black sales director can’t show inclusion in RIF was based on race
- EMPLOYEE LEAVE—D. Del.: DuPont employee fired after surveillance revealed her violating restrictions can’t advance retaliation claim
- TORT CLAIMS—E.D. Va.: Former employer must answer defamation claim based on statements to employee’s new employer
- WAGE-HOUR—OVERTIME—Mass. App.: Sovereign immunity doctrine applied to bar wage suit by Massachusetts court officers
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—Ill. Sup. Ct.: ‘Ecclesiastical abstention’ bars claim that diocese violated Whistleblower Act by terminating ‘lay principal’ of religious school
- AGENCY NEWS—Public Citizen details USDA’s delay in agreeing to OSHA’s help with meat packing industry COVID-19 outbreaks
- DOL NEWS—WHD recovers $520K in back wages, benefits for FLSA, prevailing wage violations
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION—Dems reintroduce bill to give TSOs collective bargaining rights, wage protections like other federal employees
- REPORTS—10-year budget deficit would increase $54B under the Raise the Wage Act, CBO says
- SENATE NEWS—HELP Committee to vote February 11 on Labor Secretary nominee
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