The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that a lab management company agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve an agency investigation into claims that it violated federal law by refusing to grant religious and disability-based exemptions to its COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
A New York federal court's finding that the state wage and hour law incorporates federal exceptions to pay for pre-shift time deviated from the decisions of a handful of state high courts and lays a path for Empire State justices to weigh in, attorneys said.
The procedural findings underlying the National Labor Relations Board's recent repudiation of a Biden-era decision that gave workers some cover for outbursts leave some uncertainty about the board's view of the issue, and may make some precedential decisions more vulnerable to challenge.