Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—8th Cir.: Hospital must arbitrate nursing union’s grievance over alleged displacement of bargaining unit nurses
- ARBITRATION—E.D. Pa.: Transgender Gucci employee must arbitrate gender identity, sex, and perceived disability bias claims
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—S.D. Fla.: Employee fired after testing positive for COVID-19 advances ADA, FFCRA claims
- DISCRIMINATION—NATIONAL ORIGIN—D. Mass.: Employee’s HWE harassment and retaliatory discharge claims advance to trial
- DISCRIMINATION—RELIGIOUS—M.D. Ga.: Air Force officer denied religious accommodation against COVID-19 vaccine secures injunctive relief
- DISCRIMINATION—SEXUAL HARASSMENT—M.D. Fla.: Personal chef’s claims of sexual harassment involving employer’s wife advance
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Minnesota extends workers' compensation presumption for frontline workers who test positive for COVID-19
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—New York expands protections for employees who report alleged workplace violations
- LABOR—NLRB WEEKLY SUMMARY—Weekly summary of NLRB decisions
- LABOR—ORGANIZING, ELECTIONS—NLRB: Board declines to review employer challenges to voter eligibility in mail-ballot election
- LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS—Amazon facing wage and hour lawsuit in Nevada over unpaid pre-shift COVID screening time
- OSHA NEWS—Employer involved in earlier double fatality faces $624K in new penalties for similar violations
- PROCEDURE—S.D.N.Y.: Employers could not enjoin two former employees from prosecuting class action for wage and hour claims
- SURVEYS—Survey polls what organizations are doing to manage COVID-19 absences; confirms no one-size-fits-all approach
- WHISTLEBLOWERS—D. Alaska: Terminated employee failed to establish prima facie case of FCA retaliatory discharge
- WORTH NOTING—Federal appeals court and state supreme court cases of note
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