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Employment Law

You must provide space to pump milk

08/06/2018
Employers that haven’t yet made arrangements for providing new mothers with a private place to express milk for their infants beware: Failing to do so violates a host of laws aimed at protecting the right to nurse.

Corsicana, Texas firm allegedly didn’t stop repeated harassment

08/06/2018
A company that sells and installs screen porches in Corsicana, Texas faces an EEOC harassment lawsuit.

Amarillo, Texas carniceria settles OT and child labor complaints

08/06/2018
Carniceria La Popular, a combination butcher shop, grocery store and restaurant in Amarillo, Texas, has agreed to settle charges it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and child labor laws.

Tyler, Texas pulmonary practice sued, questionnaire violated ADA

08/06/2018
A medical practice in Tyler, Texas faces an EEOC lawsuit alleging it fired a woman after she filled out a questionnaire that required employees to disclose past surgeries, injuries and disability ratings.

Reorganization can justify termination decision

08/06/2018
Courts are naturally suspicious when employees who have filed lawsuits end up getting fired. But when an employer can explain that someone lost her job because of a valid business reason, courts seldom second-guess that decision.

HR pros take note: You can be held personally liable for wage-and-hour violations

08/06/2018
Under the right (or wrong) circumstances, a relatively high-level employee may be held personally liable for a company’s failure to follow the overtime and minimum wage rules set out in the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Employers must stop customer harassment, too

08/06/2018
There are a few workplace scenarios in which the nature of the job makes it more likely that sexual harassment may occur. But even then, once an employer knows harassment is happening, it has an obligation to stop it.

Reasonable accommodation could be called retaliation

08/02/2018
If you accommodate a disabled employee, but the accommodation winds up adversely affecting the employee instead, you could get sued for retaliation.

Document worker’s angry, disruptive behavior

08/02/2018
Are meetings with a particular employee contentious? If so, make sure you document those interactions at the time they happen. Then, if the employee sues, alleging discrimination or a hostile environment, you have facts to back up your version of events.

Home Depot could pay for mishandled firing

08/02/2018
Maurice Rucker, a 60-year-old black man, was a long-time employee at a Home Depot store in Albany, N.Y. He doesn’t work there anymore. His response to a customer’s racist rant got him fired.