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On September 27, 2022, a U.S. District Judge in California ruled that a former Twenty-First Century Fox executive was owed severance benefits after she lost her job following the merger between Disney and Fox.

Since July 2020, private sector workers in the District of Columbia have been entitled to eight weeks of paid parental leave, six weeks for family medical leave, and six weeks for personal medical leave. The paid leave is funded by a payroll tax and a significant surplus was discovered earlier this year.

On September 2, 2022, a magistrate judge in the Middle District of Florida issued a report and recommendation to deny summary judgment to the defendant employer in an overtime lawsuit brought by “Medical Reps” working for Progressive Casualty Insurance Company (“Progressive”).

Recently, Maryland’s highest court unanimously ruled that hourly workers must be paid for time they spend waiting and being shuttled between a remote parking lot and their worksite, if the transportation is required by their employer. Mario Ernesto Amayo et al. v. DGS Construction LLC et al. and Juan Carlos Terrones Rojas et al. v. F.R. General Contractors Inc. et al., Nos. 14 and 17, September Term 2021.

Gregory McGillivary and Molly Elkin, partners at McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP, have been awarded the recognition of ‘Best Lawyer for Employment Law – Individuals’ for the 2023 Best Lawyer rankings.

On August 23, 2022, the parties to the lawsuit Comin and Briggs v. IBM, Case No. 3:19-cv-07261 (C.D. Cal.), filed a proposed class action settlement with the court, requesting preliminary approval of the $4.75 million settlement.

On August 11, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Lacey’s Place, a chain of 30 gaming parlors in Illinois, claiming violations of the Equal Pay Act and Title I and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

After some minor legal turbulence, a California wage and hour lawsuit filed by two former JetBlue flight attendants in 2015 has finally reached a settlement, which will require JetBlue to pay out $3.6 million, including attorneys’ fees, to a class of 568 current and former flight attendants. The lawsuit, styled Booher et al. v. JetBlue Airways Corp., No. 4:15-cv-01203 (N.D. Cal.

In a split decision, the Fourth Circuit ruled in Williams v. Kincaid that gender dysphoria is a disability protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Americans with Disabilities Act protects people from disability discrimination in employment, public accommodations, and transportation.

On August 11, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in NLRB v. Ampersand Publishing, LLC, Case No. 21-71060, that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) can order an employer to reimburse legal fees incurred by a union during the collective bargaining process.