Once a week LawMemo posts an Alert focusing on a recent employment law decision. The archive is HERE.

Here’s a list from the last few months:

08/02/2022 - "Cat's paw" theory allows discrimination plaintiffs to get to a jury

07/26/2022 - No intolerable working conditions? No constructive discharge.
07/19/2022 - App-based drivers: Jury will decide whether employees or contractors
07/12/2022 - Banning "Black Lives Matter" masks violated the 1st amendment
07/05/2022 - SCOTUS: States have no sovereign immunity in USERRA suits (5-4)

06/28/2022 - 1st amendment bars termination of coach for post-game prayers
06/21/2022 - FAA requires PAGA plaintiff to arbitrate her individual claim
06/14/2022 - Defamation: belief that fired employees "were jerks" won't prove actual malice
06/07/2022 - Unanimous SCOTUS: Airline ramp supervisor is exempt from the FAA

05/31/2022 - SCOTUS: Waiver of right to arbitrate does not require proof of prejudice
05/24/2022 - "First one of you tries to unionize … I’ll send you back to the salt mine."
05/17/2022 - Severely disabled janitors are employees
05/10/2022 - ADA impairment need not be permanent or have long-term effects
05/03/2022 - Arbitration agreement in employee handbook is unenforceable