Polyglot for Wage and Hour Administrator

Almost two years into his term, President Obama is making a 2nd try at an Administrator for the Wage and Hour division of the Department of ...

Disparate Impact Suit - Credit Checks

Three times a year for the last several years I have done a program for the UT School of Law, CLE group called Essential Employment Law. In ...

University of Texas School of Law and Labor Law

When I graduated from UT Law School in 1975, I had taken the only labor law course that was offered (if you didn't count the 2 hour Empl...

In Defense of the EEOC? No, Just a Reminder About Pancakes

Tom Crane, at the San Antonio Employment Law Blog, had a very interesting post last week that complains about an EEOC investigator turning a...

The Technology Changes -- But the Principles Stay the Same

I have seen several posts about the NLRB issuing a complaint based on an employee's facebook post about their supervisor, that led to ad...

Another Interesting Development from Last Tuesday - $4 MDV for FLSA Retaliation

While most eyes were turned to the election results last Tuesday night, a former Los Angeles policeman was enjoying a $4 million dollar ver...

Putting Me and Other Employer's Lawyers Out of Work

David Yamada and I have never met but have developed a friendship via the net. Even though we often have different views, usually not on the...

A SAD Story In So Many Very Different Ways

Commenting on lawsuits based on newspaper stories is risky business. I do it frequently and I probably should remind myself and those who re...

If You Have a Choice, Would You Bifurcate Punitive Damages?

That was a question I was discussing with a colleague Friday just before we gave a seminar presentation on Things that Employers Do to Make ...

McDonnell Douglas Bites the Dust in Tennessee

Yesterday I wrote about Texas' own little corner of the workers' comp world, today it is the Volunteer State's turn to take the ...