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Ogletree Deakins Deepens Workplace Investigation Practice, Welcomes Letty P. Aguilar as Shareholder in San Antonio
Ogletree Deakins Deepens Workplace Investigation Practice, Welcomes Letty P. Aguilar as Shareholder in San Antonio. -
Ogletree Deakins deepens workplace investigation practice, welcomes Letty Aguilar as shareholder in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO – Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, has welcomed Leticia (Letty) P. Aguilar to its San Antonio office as Shareholder, a press release states. -
Ivy League Justice
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be. -
Unmasking the Nanny State
After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them. -
Peckar & Abramson, Pc Welcomes Angela Connor, Freddy X. Muñoz, and Brian D. Waller to the Firm’s Partnership; Announces Additional Promotions to Senior Counsel and Senior Associate Ranks
Peckar & Abramson, Pc Welcomes Angela Connor, Freddy X. Muñoz, and Brian D. Waller to the Firm’s Partnership; Announces Additional Promotions to Senior Counsel and Senior Associate Ranks. -
U.S. Law Enforcement Targets Fraud Facilitators, Doubling Last Year’s Enforcement
U.S. Law Enforcement Targets Fraud Facilitators, Doubling Last Year’s Enforcement. -
Texas AG sues Biden Administration for 'unconstitutional' vaccine mandate
AUSTIN - Attorney General Paxton and several allied states and companies sued the Biden Administration for its illegal and unconstitutional vaccine mandate imposed on private businesses, a press release states. -
COZEN O'CONNOR: Inside the U.S. Department of Labor: Policies, Programs, and Perception for Employers
The U.S. Department of Labor continues to be one of the more active federal agencies, providing significant regulation of the employer-employee relationship on hot issues ranging from wage and hour disputes (minimum wage and overtime/exemptions) to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Considering legislation to reform law enforcement introduced in the Texas Legislature
Several bills introduced in the Texas Legislature are identified as necessary reforms of Texas law enforcement. -
Union Tide Rises Under Biden
President Joe Biden has for decades depicted himself as a blue-collar guy from Scranton, Pennsylvania, and part of his political persona is an appeal to the lunch bucket crowd—working-class voters. -
Texas business owners have new guidance on worker classification, thanks to new Department of Labor rule
There is more clarity about whether Texans may be classified as independent contractors or employees by business owners, thanks to a rule put in place on Jan. 6, by the U.S. Department of Labor. -
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: Hutto Excavation Company Pays Back Wages to Employee After Denying Emergency Paid Sick Leave to Self-quarantine
Hutto Excavation Company Pays Back Wages to Employee After Denying Emergency Paid Sick Leave to Self-quarantine ProDirt Services LLC – based in Hutto, Texas – has paid $1,680 in back wages for denying emergency paid sick leave to an employee who was instructed to self-quarantine by a healthcare provider for coronavirus-related reasons. -
COZEN O'CONNOR: The Results Are In, What Now - How Will the 2020 Election Impact Employers? Part One
Join us for a two-part discussion of what a new Biden administration or a continued Trump administration will mean for employers, employees, and workplace consistency. -
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: U.S. Department of Labor Recovers Back Wages for Employees After Restaurant Misses Payroll in Violation of Federal Law
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Bottom of the Cup Inc. – a café and coffee house based in Round Rock, Texas – will pay $14,286 in back wages to 15 employees after the employer missed payroll, violating the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). -
FAEGRE DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP: DOL Final Regulations on Electronic Disclosure for Retirement Plans: How the New Safe Harbor May Cut Costs and Simplify Compliance
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued final electronic disclosure rules for retirement plans, creating a new safe harbor (the 2020 Safe Harbor), which promises to expand the availability of electronic disclosure and make distribution more cost-effective. -
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: U.S. Department of Labor and Microsoft Corp. Enter Agreement to Resolve Alleged Hiring Discrimination Affecting 1,229 Applicants in Four States
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Microsoft Corp. U.S. have entered into an early resolution conciliation agreement (ERCA) to resolve alleged hiring discrimination practices at its facilities in Irving, Texas; Redmond, Washington; New York, New York; and Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: San Antonio, Texas-area Restaurants Pay $71,899 in Back Wages to Employees After U.s. Department of Labor Investigation
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), an enterprise operating three San Antonio, Texas, area restaurants has paid $71,899 in back wages to 327 employees to resolve violations of the tip-pooling requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). -
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: El Paso Plumbing Contractor Pays Back Wages to Employee After Denying Paid Leave to Care for Children Whose School Closed for Coronavirus
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Texas MEP Contractors LLC – a plumbing contractor based in El Paso, Texas – has paid $804 in back wages to an employee wrongly denied paid sick leave for a qualifying reason covered under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). -
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: Wireless Service Provider Pays Back Wages to Employee Denied Paid Sick Leave After Doctor Ordered Coronavirus-related Self-quarantine
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Rockonwireless Inc. – doing business as Metro T-Mobile in Houston, Texas – will pay $900 in back wages after failing to provide an employee with coronavirus symptoms paid sick leave after their doctor ordered them to self-quarantine for two weeks, in violation of the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act, part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). -
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: Delivery Contractor Pays Back Wages After Wrongly Denying Paid Sick Leave to Employee Ordered to Quarantine
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Zoom X Inc. – a delivery service contractor based in Katy, Texas – has paid $1,700 in back wages to an employee for wrongly denying paid sick leave for a qualifying reason covered under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).