Category: Labor and Employment

​​For the first time in 25 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its guidance on harassment in the workplace. The new information aims to consolidate harassment laws and increase protections for employees. With multiple changes in the last two decades to various laws governing the workplace, the new guidance removes outdated regulations and…

​​Senate Bill 240, now established as Texas’s Health and Safety Code Chapter 331, mandates that all healthcare facilities in Texas need to have a written workplace violence prevention plan by September 1, 2024. This means that all healthcare facilities in Texas are obligated to adopt and enforce a plan to prevent workplace violence and respond…

​​Employers prevailed in a momentous victory against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when the NLRB’s decision to limit a company’s ability to implement and enforce dress code policy was reversed. Federal law is impactful and possesses the potential to provide balance to struggles between commercial corporations and the NLRB. Interpretations of the law resonate…

​​Texas employers should be aware that a recent federal court of appeals decision changes the law with regard to acceptable conditions of employment and potentially exposes more employers to discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Title VII requirements had been interpreted…

​​The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of personal characteristics such as race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Title VII of the Act specifically addresses discrimination by employers against employees or job applicants. Title VII applies to public and private employers with 15 or more employees. There is only one…