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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 08:13:37+00:00

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 15 denied three petitions in employment-related appeals, two concerning hostile work environment and one alleging discrimination (Terry Haynie v. United Air Lines, Inc., No. 18-1204; Afoluso Adesanya, et al. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, No. 18-1091; Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al., No. 18-1031, U.S. Sup.).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The California state wage-and-hour law can’t be borrowed as federal law on the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) as there is no gap in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an attorney representing Parker Drilling Management Services Ltd. argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 16 (Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton, No. 18-389, U.S. Sup.).
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it required employees, as a condition of continued employment, to waive their right to discuss and disclose information regarding arbitration, an administrative law judge (ALJ) ruled March 21 (Pfizer, Inc. and Rebecca Lynn Olvey Martin and Jeffrey J. Rebenstorf, Nos. 10-CA-175850 and 07-CA-176035, NLRB).
CINCINNATI — A Michigan federal court erred when it ruled in a suit by the U.S. secretary of Labor that ordinary commute time and bona fide meal periods were compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled April 5, vacating a damages award against an employer and remanding for recalculation (Secretary of Labor v. Timberline South, LLC, et al., No. 18-1763, 6th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 10072).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Labor Relations Board erred in ruling that the “majority status rule” established in Pacific Lutheran University extends to faculty subgroups as that decision conflicts with N.L.R.B. v. Yeshiva University, a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 12 (University of Southern California v. National Labor Relations Board, No. 17-1149, D.C. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7203).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 9 requested a response within one month to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by non-union personal home health care assistants asking if they need “to prove contemporaneous subjective opposition” to a union that collected fair-share fees from them to establish injury and damages under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Theresa Riffey, et al. v. Governor J.B. Pritzker, et al., No. 18-1120, U.S. Sup.).
NEW YORK — A former employee of Anthropologie Inc. may proceed with her age-based hostile work environment and retaliation claims after a trial court failed to consider events found to be untimely as background evidence and applied an erroneous legal standard, a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled April 8 (Blair Davis-Garett v. Urban Outfitters, Incorporated, et al., No. 17-3371, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 10210).
NEW YORK — Because a British resident chose to file a now-dismissed complaint against her former employer, which included her address, in U.S. federal court, a New York federal judge on April 3 held that the information was publicly available and, therefore, the subsequent online publication of the complaint by two websites did not violate the General Data Protection Act (GDPR) (Miheala Popa v. Robert E. Moritz, No. 1:18-cv-11300, S.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58458).
ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in an April 5 unpublished opinion ruled that workers that package onions grown on other farms don’t fall within the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) agricultural exemptions and are owed overtime; however, it vacated a liquidated damages award and remanded for the trial court to consider a second argument by the employer that it believed it was complying with the FLSA (R. Alexander Acosta v. Bland Farms Production & Packing, LLC, et al., No. 17-15322, 11th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 10118).
ATLANTA — A grocery store employee who brought a pregnancy discrimination case against her former employer failed to show that a jury’s verdict for the store went against the weight of evidence presented during the trial or that alleged evidentiary errors or improper jury instructions tainted the verdict, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled April 4 (Varonica L. Udeh v. Winn-Dixie Montgomery, LLC, No. 16-16867, 11th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 9948).
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Employers on April 3 sought dismissal of certain claims in a New York federal court class action over an alleged captive insurance and reinsurance scheme in which home health aides allege that they were cheated out of lost wages and benefits (Ynes M. Gonzalez de Fuente, et al. v. Preferred Home Care of New York LLC, et al., No. 18-6749, E.D. N.Y.).
NEW YORK — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) violated the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) when it stopped providing comparator information to employees being laid off and started requiring laid off workers to waive their right under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) to bring collective age bias claims in any forum, four employees terminated in May 2016 allege in their March 27 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Steven Estle, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation, No. 19-2729, S.D. N.Y.).

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