Can you be a volunteer and not get paid?
This has been an interesting issue for some time. The Fair Labor Standards Act sets rules for the payment of minimum wage and overtime. But ...
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Jury Selection and Social Media
The American Bar Association has announced that lawyers can search social media such as Facebook for information about potential jurors. So the next time you ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Closely Held Corporations have Religious Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court in Burwell v Hobby Lobby, ruled that closely held corporations have religious freedom. The opinions indicates that to get those freedoms ...
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Workers Compensation is unfair to injured workers
The Texas Tribune had a recent article on the current status of Workers’ Compensation laws in Texas. Among the findings was that Insurance companies dispute ...
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50 years of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII)
This last week marked 60 years of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 now known as Title VII that protects employees from discrimination on the ...
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Will Title VII be amended to protect gay and lesbians from work discrimination?
The article below from the Associated Press’ Nedra Pickler about Obama signing an executive order protecting Federal workers and Federal Contractors makes me believe that eventually ...
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