Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS—8th Cir.: Employer’s co-owner had apparent authority to consent to search of employee’s phone
- AGENCY NEWS—Jury finds nursing home employee guilty of raping elderly woman with dementia
- ARBITRATION—Cal. App.: Trial court properly declined enforcement of unconscionable arbitration agreement in wage case
- DISCRIMINATION—AGE—4th Cir.: 67-year-old female psychiatrist who resigned instead of re-taking physical exam has standing to pursue disparate impact claims
- DISCRIMINATION—D. Conn.: Bus operators plausibly allege ADA claims based on allergies to cleaning chemicals
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—D. Conn.: Employee’s ADA claims fail because decisionmaker unaware of her disability
- DISCRIMINATION—N.D. Ill.: Employee fired during COVID-19 pandemic can’t advance race/sex discrimination claims
- DISCRIMINATION—N.D. Ill.: Pakistani-born railroad law enforcement officer, accused of threat-making, fails to advance bias claims
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Should the severe start to flu season lead your workplace to require flu shots? 2 main considerations for employers
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—‘Tis the season—to update your company's employee handbook
- IMMIGRATION NEWS—DACA final rule now effective, but ongoing litigation holds up initial requests
- LABOR NEWS—Police union’s former president, lobbyist facing potential 20 years’ imprisonment for racketeering, fraud
- OSHA NEWS—Dollar General cited another $2.7M for safety violations; framing contractor cited $269K
- WAGE-HOUR—CLASS ACTIONS—C.D. Cal.: Settlements of truck drivers’ antitrust, wage theft suits against CRST and C.E. England given early approval
- WORTH NOTING—Cases of note dealing with race discrimination
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