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Reverse discrimination claims boosted by Supreme Court

by Paige Good and Harrison Kosmider, McAfee & Taft

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Come one, come all: Revamped Texas tort claims

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) recently gave a booster shot to the viability of certain tort claims in Texas. A tort claim is a civil wrong committed by one person...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Texas Supreme Court orders fair fight in personal injury lawsuit

Discovery is the process by which each side in a lawsuit gets to know, before a trial, the knowledge possessed by the other side. And, sometimes, this knowledge will be shaped and offered at a trial. A new Texas Supreme...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Texas Supreme Court tosses whistleblower claim

Texas law protects public employees who “blow the whistle” on their government employer. But over the last several years, the Texas Supreme Court has interpreted the statute to limit its reach, remove its remedies, and...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Automatic payroll deductions are allowed, but follow all rules

Q For nonexempt, hourly employees who don’t have access to the time clock during the day (they are delivery drivers), how should we handle their meal breaks? Can we automatically deduct 30 minutes from their hours? There...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

As on-demand pay gains popularity, data show how it’s working out

Interest continues to grow in programs that allow workers to access at least part of their pay ahead of their regular payday. Surveys consistently show that on-demand pay—often called earned wage access (EWA)—is a...

May 29, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · New York · Texas · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Monitoring your employees? Understand the pros and cons

Employers have long used employee monitoring techniques to understand what workers do all day. Reasons for monitoring run the gamut from keeping an eye out for thieves and slackers to discovering ways to improve...

May 29, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · New York · Texas · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Court not impressed with implied notice of termination

Ordinarily, employees are to be paid whenever they reach the end of employment. But for a temporary services employee, how are they told of that ending? And does that occur at the end of every assignment? A specific...

May 29, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Hospital’s denial of vaccine exemption upheld

An employee of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center didn’t want to get a flu vaccine and obtained a physician’s certification that exempted her from the requirement. Her employer’s internal exemption review committee denied the...

May 14, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

The Glock in the breakroom

I have had to deal with a shooting at a client’s place of business (there are legal and HR responsibilities I never imagined). I have had to have a security guard monitor a client’s foyer in the face of threats. More...

May 01, 2023 · Federal Employment Law Insider

EEOC Chair Burrow says more guidance is coming

At the recent American Bar Association (ABA) meeting, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows indicated the agency would be issuing new guidance in the near future. In a session on March 29...

May 01, 2023 · Federal Employment Law Insider

DOL defending Trump-era overtime rule

The Biden administration is defending the Trump-era overtime rule in the Western District of Texas in an attempt to quash a lawsuit claiming Congress never delegated the broad authority to the Department of Labor (DOL)...

May 01, 2023 · Federal Employment Law Insider