In the case of Graziosi v. City of Greenville Mississippi, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 370 (5th Cir. 2015 the 5th Cir held that a city police sergeant was not protected from retaliat...
In a prior post I have written about the fact that many workers in El Paso, Texas work for employers who do not carry Texas workers' compensation but have their own self insured work inj...
Workers' compensation is a state-regulated insurance system that is suposed to ensure that medical bills and some lost wages are paid for employees injured on the job. Texas does no...
Recently the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision dismissing an employee's lawsuit on discrimination for lack of evidence. In this case of Etienne v. Spanish Lake Truck...
As I have written about before you can prove an age discrimination case by circumstantial evidence if you can prove that you were replaced by a substantially younger individual and that ...
Roger Davie was named as a Super Lawyer again in 2015 in the area of Employment law. this is a Nation wide award that is given to only the premier lawyers in the Nation. The r...
Many employers who have group health insurance for their employees have what are known as "wellness programs". These programs are designed as incentives for employees to have more ...
Front pay compensates the employee for the future effects of discrimination when reinstatement would be an appropriate, but not feasible, remedy or for the estimated length of the i...
Drilling company Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. on Tuesday agreed to pay $12.2 million to settle the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lawsuit accusing it of discriminating again...
Title VII - the main Discrimination Statute in the United States has damage caps based on the number of employee:
For employers with 15-100 employees, the limit is $50,000.
For emp...
Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies may have to accommodate pregnant employees who are given light duty restrictions by their doctors. This is an important case ...
This is another case where the Supreme Court went out of its way to deny the poor and injured the right to a trial with a jury. Shockingly the Texas legislature had enacted Sec 74.4...
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