One of North Texas’ largest employers announced that it will not longer hire or consider for hire any individual who uses any nicotine product (i.e., cigarettes, nicotine gum or patches, chewing tobacco or electronic cigarettes). Baylor Health Care Systems announced its new policy on the careers page of its website stating:
If you are are regular reader of this blog, you know that by November 14, 2011, most private employers (union and non-union) have to post notice of employees’ federal labor rights to form and join a union. Some of you may have even already posted the NLRB-sanctioned poster.
However, several lawsuits have been filed
In jury selection of an employment discrimination case, the employer addresses the potential jury pool after it has already heard from the employee’s lawyer. When the employee’s lawyer has done an effective voir dire (i.e., jury selection), the employer might start to see the panel members begin to express verbal and nonverbal cues that the jurors are beginning to
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Texas heard oral argument in two employment cases.
In El Apple I, Ltd. v. Olivas, (No. 10-0490), the Court is considering whether detailed lodestar attorney fee calculation is required with breakdowns for each specific task. Also under consideration is whether appellate fees should be calculated in advance or only
When I started the Texas Employment Law Update almost three years ago, there were only three employment law blogs I was familiar with written by Texas attorneys: Work Matters -Texas Employers Blog, Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer and the Texas Employment Law Blog. Today there are a number of other good blogs focused primarily on developments
Next week we celebrate Labor Day; the first Monday in September (although my Labor Day celebration starts a little later today). Labor Day is and has been one of my favorite holidays. As a child, we didn’t start school until after Labor Day and it marked the end of summer vacation. Now, my children start school much
I almost never read the letters to the editor in my local newspaper because, well . . . opinion are like . . . noses; everyone has one. However, last week I “stumbled” on a letter that was thought provoking in this period of high unemployment and borderline recession.
Yesterday, the NLRB issued its final rule requiring all employer subject to the National Labor Relations Act to post notices to employees of their NLRA rights such as the right to form and join a union, bargain collectively over wages and to file unfair labor practice charges with the Board as well as instructing employees on how to file
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Walter Olson at Overlawyered started they debate by asking “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law…” He answered age discrimination. I’ll let him defend his selection and you can read his explanation here.
Jon Hyman and Daniel Schwartz weighed in that they would reform the depression-era outdated Fair
