A Resource for Texas Employers
I voted early nearly a week ago and early voting ends today. However, Texas employers may be required to allow employees time off to vote in the upcoming election. To learn more about the Texas voting requirements, check out the post I wrote six years ago here.
Other posts on Texas voting are linked…
This week the DOL announced changes to the white collar overtime exemptions that take effect December 1, 2016. Every employment lawyer with a newsletter, blog or soapbox has written some summary of the new regulations. And while the regulations only effect the executive, administrative, professional and high compensated exemptions, Daniel Schwartz, a Connecticut employment…
Last night the U.S. Department of Labor announced details of its long-awaited Final Rule on changes to the regulations interpreting the overtime exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA is the federal law requiring most employers to pay minimum wages and overtime to nonexempt employees. The Final Rule raises the minimum salary…
The City of Austin, Texas has joined the long list of municipalities nationally that have adopted ordinances restricting employers ability to make inquiries into an applicant’s criminal background and to act on that information. Under Austin’s new Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance, an employer with fifteen or more employees in the City of Austin may not:…
A recent case from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals should remind HR Directors (and supervisors) to be particularly vigilant in handling employee FMLA leaves of absence. In Graziadio v. Culinary Institute of America, the appellate court reversed a trial court victory for the employer and the two individual supervisors (one of whom was…
In today’s From the Archives: Spring Break Edition, we go back to a 2011 post to remind employers why it is a good idea for managers and supervisors to stick to a neutral reference policy when providing employment references on former employees. In Managers and Supervisors Should Follow Their Employer’s Neutral Reference Policies, I…
Today, I turn the keyboard over to my colleague Victor Jones for a special guest post. Victor practices in Kelly Hart’s New Orleans’s office. He has some thoughts on what employers might learn from the fallout over Tom Brady’s failure to preserve the cell phone he used during and immediately after last year’s AFC Championship…
There has been an explosion of wage and hour collective actions failed against Texas employers in the last five years. This has been particularly prevalent in the oil field services sector. If you are a Texas employer, and using any of 12 pay practices below, you should consult with an employment lawyer to ensure you…
The National Labor Relations Act protects employees’ right to form unions, collectively bargain and otherwise engage in collective activities for their mutual aid and protection. Collective activities for mutual aid and protection usually relate to wages, hours, working conditions and other terms and conditions of employment. These activities apply to union and nonunion employers. In…
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