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Texas

El Paso commissioners withdraw support for immigration raids

05/30/2008
On May 5, El Paso County officials adopted a resolution calling for an end to workplace immigration raids until Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform legislation. The “Rights and Justice for Immigrant Workers” resolution calls for eliminating employer sanctions and no-match letters …

Court says liability insurer must cover employee defamation

05/30/2008
Good news for employers carrying various types of liability coverage: A Texas Court of Appeals has sided with an employer that attempted to collect on a liability policy after it lost a $1.75 million defamation judgment …

Hiring bias costs Dallas defense contractor $1.5 million

05/30/2008
Defense contractor Vought Aircraft recently agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by more than 1,000 job applicants. The settlement comes as a result of charges brought by the DOL that the aircraft parts manufacturer discriminated against minorities and women in hiring …

Arlington hotel settles pregnancy discrimination suit

05/30/2008
Arlington Host Corp., which formerly owned and operated the BallPark Inn in Arlington, settled a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit for $20,000 brought by the EEOC on behalf of a front-desk clerk who was pregnant when she lost her job …

NLRB issues guidelines for investigating union ‘Salting’ claims

05/30/2008
In February 2008, the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of General Counsel issued two guideline memoranda outlining the board’s rationale in two recent decisions concerning “union salting.” Salting is a strategy in which union supporters apply for employment in a nonunion workplace. The goal is to unionize that company’s work force …

Can a credit card company garnish one of my employees’ wages?

05/30/2008
Q. I have been contacted by a credit card company about garnishing the wages of one of my employees. Can a credit card company garnish wages in Texas?

Can we mandate paying via direct deposit?

05/30/2008
Q. Can a Texas employer require its employees to accept payment of wages through an electronic transfer of funds? …

Seasonal employees and overtime pay

05/30/2008
Q. What are “seasonal employees”? Is it true that an employer does not have to pay them overtime?

Make sure investigation process doesn’t defame employee

05/05/2008
As an employer, you are obligated to investigate employee harassment and discrimination claims. How you handle those investigations can determine whether you’ll have to prepare for later lawsuits. The problem: allegations that you defamed someone while conducting the investigation …

Track discipline to show equal treatment for all workers

05/05/2008
Insist that managers tell HR when they issue any form of discipline, even an oral warning. That way, there’s a record that you can later use to explain why it only looks like a discharged employee was punished more harshly than others who committed the same offense …