There have been two employment cases decided by the Texas Supreme Court in the last several months. However, because I expect them to have little impact on Texas jurisprudence, I have not been compelled to write about them before today. However, in the interest of keeping the blog up-to-date with each of the employment cases from the
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Texas At-will Employees Cannot Prevail on Fraud Claims
By Russell Cawyer on
Posted in Case Summaries
Common law employment claims have certain advantages for plaintiffs over statutory discrimination, harassment or retaliation claims. For starters, there are no administrative prerequisites to exhaust and the kinds of damages one can seek for common law claims can sometimes be be more "creative" than the straight forward, capped damages recoverable under statutory claims. In my nonscientific, anecdotal…