The Eleventh Circuit refused Monday to reopen a now-deceased Georgia county employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking precautions to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic due to her health problems, concluding she was let go for spraying co-workers with disinfectant rather than her disabilities.
A recently signed California law clarifies that exemptions and exclusions from federal arbitration requirements apply to state arbitration law, closing what worker-side attorneys said was a gap in wage and hour litigation and potentially paving the way for updates in other states.
The National Labor Relations Board could soon provide needed clarity to the rules governing the composition of bargaining units consisting of workers split between acute and nonacute care facilities, experts said, as the situation has become increasingly common with consolidation in the healthcare industry.