Russell Cawyer's Texas Employment Law Update

12/15/2022

Yesterday, I was on a flight for a business trip and was writing a post about a few Artificial Intelligence applications I've been playing around with.

12/13/2022

More steps to allow victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment to speak out.

President Biden recently signed the Speak Out Act, the latest in a set of bills focusing on workplace sexual harassment and sexual assault. According to

12/09/2022

Texas Supreme Court confirms limits on discovery of cell phone data.

Today, the Supreme Court of Texas established the limits for discovery of cell phone data like text messages, e-mails and other data in a tort case

02/07/2019

Fifth Circuit affirms summary judgment for employer in Title VII transgender case. https://tinyurl.com/yava8znt

02/28/2018

City of Austin becomes first in another category.

This month the City of Austin passed the State’s first municipal paid sick leave ordinance requiring private employers to provide earned sick time to emplo

12/27/2017

The movement and high profile sexual harassment allegations involving prominent Americans has influenced provisions of the new tax reform law. The

12/22/2017

Employers limiting ages of those who can see job advertisements may be sued for age discrimination.

Facebook ads allow advertisers to target their advertising towards a variety of metrics. For example, you can target an ad to users in a city, state or zip

08/08/2017

In Texas, an employer can satisfy its overtime obligation to nonexempt employees whose hours fluctuate from week-to-week and are paid on a salary basis, by

11/23/2016

White collar exemption changes on hold.

Today, a Texas federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule imposing a

05/27/2016

Seventh Circuit ruling creates the circuit split needed for U.S. Supreme Court to determine if arbitration agreements waiving right to proceed as class action are enforceable.

Arbitration agreements containing class action waivers can be an effective way for employers to mitigate risk against defending large scale mass actions fi

05/23/2016

Supreme Court rules for employee in employer friendly ruling.

Plaintiffs and employers often dispute when an employee's time period for filing a charge of discrimination commences. Plaintiffs argue that it commences

05/20/2016

New overtime rules provide unique opportunity to review all exempt classifications and fix problem classifications.

This week the DOL announced changes to the white collar overtime exemptions that take effect December 1, 2016. Every employment lawyer with a newsletter, b