Houston residents may know that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires their employers to offer reasonable accommodations to workers with disabilities. In some cases, this means that an employer needs to transfer a newly disabled employee into a vacant position...
One type of employment discrimination that tends to make fewer headlines but is happening all too often is age discrimination. This type of discrimination is explicitly illegal under federal law. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibits the discrimination of...
Almost one year ago in this Houston Employment Law Blog, we discussed an interesting race discrimination lawsuit that had been filed against the national young women's clothing retailer Wet Seal. The retailer was facing a class action lawsuit that accused it of firing...
Here in Houston and throughout the country, non-exempt workers must be paid time-and-a-half their regular rate of pay for any hours worked in excess of 40 in one week. This is governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which has been a very important employment law in...
successfully obtained a judgment from a federal district court in Houston, Texas ordering an employer to pay $155,123.13 in back wages and attorneys' fees to two (2) employees as compensation for their unpaid "sleep time" hours worked...
recently won a summary judgment in a federal district court in Galveston, Texas in favor of a residential group home employee. See Boman v. All The Little Things Count, LLC, No. 3:12-CV-00077, April 24, 2013. The Court found that all of...
A Texas company made national news this week as a very shameful disability discrimination case came to a close. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Henry's Turkey Service years ago for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act in its treatment of...
