Employment Law

Overused Overtime Exemptions Employers often attempt to illegally cloak their employees with overtime exemptions to avoid paying overtime in accordance with federal law. The most common overtime [...]

Overtime Pay for Employees Working in Retirement Communities Too frequently we see Texas employers failing to pay caregivers, med techs, and other employees working in retirement communities [...]

Wrongful Termination: Illegal Termination I often say that employment at-will is a misnomer; it should really be right-to-fire. The majority of states (including Texas) are employment at-will, [...]

This post is a part two to a previous post we did for employees in sales known as the overtime exemption for outside sales employees. In this blog, I am going to look at another common overtime [...]

The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) overtime law requires employees to receive overtime pay for hours over forty (40) in week, unless the employee is “exempt” from overtime. Generally, an [...]

Retaliation: Is Your Employer a Bully? What is workplace retaliation? Unlawful workplace retaliation occurs when an employer takes an adverse action against an employee after an employee has [...]

Minimum Wage, Labor Law In a previous post, we discussed the potential need for an increase in the federal minimum wage. The issue is far from resolved, but there is one aspect that we did not [...]

Agreement Not-to-Compete? Is it Enforceable? What Now? What is a covenant not to compete? Covenants Not to Compete and Non-Solicitation Agreements are becoming increasingly common in Texas. A [...]

Minimum Wage The federal minimum was raised most recently on July 24, 2009. At eight years ago, that seems to be a little too far gone to be of much help to the average American citizen in this [...]

This article was originally posted by Drew N. Herrmann for the Bitchy Waiter. A server’s Duties before, during, and after work Warning, you should not work for free (or almost free)! It may seem [...]