Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—President eyes expanded unemployment coverage when jobs risk employees’ health, $15 minimum on government contracts
- STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES—Top labor and employment developments for December 2020
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—W.D. Va.: Court denies preliminary injunction to employer whose furloughed employee took another job
- DISCRIMINATION—N.D. Tex.: Saleswoman whose mistakes cost over $500K fails on age and sex bias claims
- DISCRIMINATION—NATIONAL ORIGIN—S.D.N.Y.: Candy company to face trial against fired Mexican employees’ bias, FLSA claims
- REMEDIES, DAMAGES—4th Cir.: Jury’s $258K award to fired business manager upheld in large part
- TORT CLAIMS—D. Conn.: Teacher accused of threatening behavior by the school principal advances defamation claim
- WAGE-HOUR—EXEMPTIONS—E.D. Tex.: Lack of guaranteed salary sank claim employee subject to highly compensated employee exemption
- FEDERAL REGULATIONS—DOL issues final rule revoking internal guidance rule promulgated under Trump EO
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—DOL withdraws H-2A temp ag rule and H-2B program interpretation revisions
- LABOR NEWS—IATSE offers help in getting pandemic vaccination sites up and running
- SUPREME COURT NEWS—Justices drop arbitrability case after oral argument as ‘improvidently granted’
- WHITE HOUSE NEWS—Biden Administration restores federal worker protections, collective bargaining rights; moves toward $15 minimum wage
- WHITE HOUSE NEWS—Biden upends Trump-era ban on transgender military service
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