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Daily Report Online

Employer Obligations When Workers Request Accommodations Related to Mental Health

When workers seeking accommodations such as reduced duties, remote work or intermittent or extended leaves of absence are denied, they are filing disability discrimination claims.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Decision of the Day: Lawyer Sanctioned for Violating Responsibility Rule, Warned of Referral to Grievance Body

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decisions editors. 
2 minute read

The Recorder

FTC Rule Banning Noncompetes Set Aside on Nationwide Basis by Federal Court

"The court also determined that the Final Rule was overbroad," write Ryan Glasgow, Christopher Pardo and Katherine Sandberg of Hunton Andrews Kurth.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

AI Hiring Poses Discrimination Risk; A Cautionary Tale

A recent decision from a federal court in California shows that employers need to be careful to avoid potential discriminatory impact if they use AI in employment decisions. EEOC and local lawmakers, including NYC, are also taking steps to ensure that the adoption of this emerging technology is compliant with anti-discrimination laws.
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Legal Tech Firm Takes on NLRB—and Wins

A legal tech company's refusal to enter collective bargaining had merit, the Fifth Circuit said, because a class of supervisors were improperly included in the bargaining unit. The decision went against the National Labor Relations Board.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Divided Pa. High Court Allows Medical Providers' Civil Lawsuits for Unpaid Workers' Comp Benefits

In Elite Care RX v. Premier Comp Solutions, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was asked to address where a health care provider can pursue a claim against an insurer for unpaid medical bills incurred by injured workers receiving workers' compensation benefits. Must a provider go through the administrative processes of Pennsylvania's Workers' Compensation Act (the act), or could it pursue a civil lawsuit?
10 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Big Law Hired for Employment Cybersquatting Suit

Michael S. O'Malley of Ogletree Deakins, along with Evan H. Cohn of Taft Stettinius & Hollister, are counsel for the plaintiff.
3 minute read

Law.com

Ex-Nurse's 'Individualized, Idiosyncratic Religion' Claims Against COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Allowed to Proceed, Judge Rules

"Here, the plaintiff has alleged that a core principle of being 'Pagan' is submitting to natural forces and refusing artificial medical aid," U.S. Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote. "She has asserted that the mRNA technology used to develop some of the COVID-19 vaccines makes them unnatural and impermissible, as distinct from the virus-derived annual flu vaccine. That asserted connection is sufficient to support a plausible claim that accepting at least some of the COVID-19 vaccines would violate a tenet of her idiosyncratic religion."
4 minute read

Law.com

N.C. Employee's Contractual Dispute Over $70K in Unpaid Wages Allowed to Proceed, Federal Judge Rules

"It is not clear from the face of the complaint that plaintiff's breach of contract claim is barred by the statute of limitations because it is plausible that partial payments from defendant Adora made sometime between 2016 and 2022 tolled the statute of limitations. This is a factual issue that cannot be resolved at the motion to dismiss stage," U.S. District Judge William L. Osteen said.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Health Care Worker Files Class Action Against Staffing Agency for Unpaid Meal Breaks

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts.
4 minute read

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