• County of Berks v. Teamsters Local 429

    Publication Date: 2023-12-18
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 542 C.D. 2022

    Retroactively awarding correctional officers sick leave that was deducted after the county exempted them from Families First Coronavirus Relief Act leave benefits merely constituted an award of paid leave and did not interfere with the county's ability to exercise its managerial prerogative or statutory rights. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Goodwin v. The Univ. of Pennsylvania

    Publication Date: 2023-12-11
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Kearney
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-755

    Employer was granted summary judgment where employee failed to produce evidence supporting her claims of disability discrimination and retaliation for accommodation and leave requests. Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted.

  • Lepore v. SelectQuote Ins. Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-08
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution | Labor Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Chagares
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-3390

    Defendants appealed the district court's denial of the motion to compel arbitration.

  • McHenry v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Dumas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 373 C.D. 2022

    Trial court properly denied defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because, where a former employee's occupational disease was not compensable since it did not result in total disability and trigger the occupational disease savings clause and former employee was not subject to the exclusive remedies defined in the Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act. Affirmed.

  • Rose v. Eagle Express Lines

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-2784

    Defendants moved for summary judgment in plaintiff's action asserting Americans with Disabilities Act and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act age and disability discrimination, failure to accommodate and violation of his Family and Medical Leave Act rights after defendant refused to reinstate him as a truck driver after FMLA leave and court found plaintiff failed to meet his burden to show pretext on the age discrimination and failure to accommodate claims but a reasonable jury could find plaintiff was medically fit to return to work and

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  • PG Publ'g Co., Inc. v. Pittsburgh Typographical Union #7

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1300 WDA 2022

    Evidence that picketers briefly blocked employer's delivery vans from leaving contractor's facility and damaged them as they left was sufficient to find that they "seized" employer's property, creating an exception to the prohibition on injunctive relief in labor actions. Order of the trial court affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part.

  • Stouffer v. Union R.R. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Fuentes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Grace, Cohen & Grace, Pittsburgh, PA; Sammy Y. Sugiura, Mooney Green Saindon Murphy & Welch, Washington, DC for appellant.
    for defendant: Courtney C. Brennan, Thomas M. Pohl, Mary-Jo Rebelo, Burns White, Pittsburgh, PA for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-1680

    District court correctly dismissed disparate impact age discrimination claim where complaint contained no specific factual allegations to demonstrate that company policies had a statistically significant impact on older workers.

  • Stouffer v. Union R.R. Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Fuentes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-1680

    District court properly dismissed appellant's Age Discrimination in Employment Act action asserting age discrimination because appellant's complaint lacked the necessary factual allegations but it was not precluded by the Railway Labor Act. Affirmed.

  • Reid v. Borough of Whitehall

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Allegheny County
    Judge: Judge Hertzberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 974 WDA 2023

    Plaintiff appealed the court's decision denying his statutory appeal from an administrative hearing officer's decision affirming a plan administrator's denial of a disability pension. In addition to challenging the merits of the pension denial, plaintiff additionally asserted that the administrative hearing officer had a conflict of interest. The court concluded that the hearing officer did not suffer from a conflict of interest simply because he was the solicitor for a neighboring borough. The court concluded further that it did not

  • City of Altoona v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 728 C.D. 2021

    Petitioner city sought review of respondent's adjudication that claimant was eligible for unemployment compensation benefits under Unemployment Compensation Law Section 402.1. The court reversed where respondent erred in holding that claimant's employer had not established an "educational service agency" to employ school crossing guards within the meaning of Section 402.1(4).