When your job is to assess a situation and make recommendations for the future, you expect your superiors to at least be open-minded to what you present to them -- even if it is critical of how things have been handled in the past. Unfortunately, some employers only...
Year: 2013
Former Texas Frito-Lay worker sues company for age discrimination
Texas residents are protected from experiencing age discrimination on the job by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. This law prohibits employers from discriminating against workers who are 40 or older. This means that employers cannot legally treat an employee...
Should large employers be required to pay higher wages?
While several states have recently raised minimum wages, and there has also been discussion of increasing the federal minimum wage, wage law has not changed in Texas. As it stands, the minimum wage in Texas is tied to the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour for just...
Study says pregnant workers face discrimination frequently
As we have discussed several times in this San Antonio Employment Law Blog, employers cannot legally fire or refuse to hire an employee because she is pregnant. In a number of cases, employers might even be required to make reasonable accommodations for a worker due...
Supreme Court review of Texas employment law case favors employer
Back in January, we discussed an employment law dispute that began here in Texas and made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. That case involved a doctor who accused the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of retaliating against him after he filed a...
Bill limiting access to sensitive employee data fails in Texas
Many people have social media or email accounts where they converse with friends and family. They generally exclude their employers from these conversations, because they are about personal and private matters. Some of the information could prove to be both...
Interns in Texas should often be paid
Many college students may be preparing to begin a summer internship in the coming weeks here in San Antonio. Internships are often a great way for young people to get some work experience under their belts and learn more about their interests and skills. However, many...
Lawsuit: Teenage workers were sexually harassed at Panda Express
Back in January in this San Antonio Law Blog, we discussed a study that discovered that a large number of teenage females are sexually harassed at work. Part of the problem is that teenage employees tend to be less aware of their employment rights than older workers,...
In Texas, Exxon Mobil under scrutiny for discrimination
Under federal law it is illegal for employers to discriminate against workers on the basis of a number of things: race, national origin, sex, pregnancy, religion, age and disability. Sexual orientation, however, is not a protected status. Twenty-one states have banned...
EEOC files another genetic information discrimination lawsuit
Most San Antonio residents know that employers cannot legally discriminate against them on the basis of their race, nationality, gender, disability or religion, among a few other things. There are other areas of antidiscrimination law, however, with which many Texas...