Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—2d Cir.: Applicant denied request for ALS interpreter for pre-employment exam can’t revive Rehab Act claims
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—Cal. App.: JNOV after favorable jury verdict affirmed where substantial evidence was lacking
- EEOC NEWS—Disability, race discrimination suits settled for $249K; new discrimination suits filed
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—California rules that websites are not places of public accommodation under the ADA
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Fourth time’s the charm? NLRB now set to change joint-employer standard after federal appeals court punts case back to the Board
- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS—E.D. Mich.: Nurse’s First Amendment retaliation case against corrections department, officers advances
- LABOR PULSE—Is America on the road to corporatism?
- LABOR—BARGAINING—9th Cir.: Employer’s bad-faith bargaining warranted order requiring reimbursement of union’s negotiation expenses
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Company behind new DeLorean was built on stolen trade secrets, lawsuit alleges
- PROCEDURE—7th Cir.: Employed bound by forum selection clause in employment agreement
- PUBLIC EMPLOYEES—3rd Cir.: Probationary state employee lacked protected property interest in continued employment
- RETALIATION—5th Cir.: FLSA claim against university department head not barred by 11th Amendment but questions remain about qualified immunity
- RETALIATION—7th Cir.: Retaliation claims, false claims against hospital debt collector can move forward
- SAFETY—9th Cir.: Appeals court affirms that OSH Act does not preempt Washington pandemic mandates
- WAGE-HOUR—S.D. Cal.: Employees’ wage and FCRA claims dismissed for second time, but leave granted for another attempt to cure pleading deficiencies
- WHITE-COLLAR CRIME—6th Cir.: GM fails to revive RICO claims stemming from FCA bribery scheme with union
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