How does disability in employment work?
I find there is a lot of misunderstanding in what discrimination in disability means and how it applies to El Paso, Texas and Texas employees. ...
Texas Workforce Commission says that reported work related injuries are down 31% in part because workers' fear reporting injuries.
In a recent report to the Texas legislature th...
Workers' Compensation Laws in Texas are really unfair to injured workers. If you have been injured and your employer does carry workers' compensation then you know how insurance companie...
The Texas Supreme Court recently answered this question in the case of Austin v Kroger. Under Texas law an employer does not have to carry Texas Workers' Compensation to prot...
In the case of Wright v. Hernandez, ___ S.W.3d ___, 2015 WL 4389582 (Tex. App.—El Paso 201) the El Paso, Court of Appeals held that an employee can be held to an arbitration a...
Nurses and other Health care workers are protected if they report violations of the law.
Section 161.135 of the Texas Health and Safety Code States that it is illegal to retaliate aga...
The law of sexual harassment has always been that the sexual harassment must be severe or pervasive before it will lead to liability of the employer. In a recent Texas case the cou...
An employer can win a claim if they can show they would have fired the employee even if the employee had been discriminated against. This is know as the "Same Decision Defense"
In the...
In a recent Federal District Court case a Federal Judge in the Western District ruled that the employee was not required to report the discrimination when the discrimination was open and...
What does "at-will" employment mean in Texas?
"At-will" employment means that your employer can fire you with or without cause. In other words your employer can fire you for no ...
When suing for discrimination there has long been an issue about what evidence is need to prove discrimination. There has been a notion that many discriminatory statements by ...
On Labor Day President Obama announced that he had issued an executive order that Federal Contractors are now required to provide up to 7 days of paid days of sick time (based on an accr...
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