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San Antonio Employment Law

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Discuss current state of law regarding employment issues, with an occasional post about the Iraq and Afghanistan war.

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  • Texas Supreme Court Overturns Another Jury Finding

    Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 10:32

     The Texas Supreme Court has once again overturned a jury verdict and a successful appeal by a plaintiff.  In Whirlpool, Inc. v. Camacho, Texas' highest civil court found deficient the testimony of an expert who testified that a fire was ca...

  • Good Summary on Non-Competes

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 11:04

     Once again, Mike Maslanka writes a nice post, summarizing a complicated area of law.  See his post summarizing the law on non-competes.  Look at his summary near the end.  You can successfully attack a non-compete agreement on va...

  • Employees Required to Check Work Email after Hours

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 08:18

     Gene Lee writes a good post about whether workers should be paid for checking email after hours.  More and more employees are being required to check their email after work.  Accoding to a 2008 Pew internet survey,  50% of worker...

  • An Employer Cannot be an Ostrich in Response to Complaints

    Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 08:45

     What happens when an employee complains about sex harassment and the employer does nothing?  Well, in the case of Duch v. Jakubek, they get sued and lose.  In a decision coming out of the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals (the c...

  • "Women-Hating" Dallas Fire Department

    Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 09:34 in discrimination, sex harassment

     Aaron Ramirez, a plaintiff employment lawyer in Dallas, writes about the "woman-hating" Dallas Fire Department.  The "D" magazine published an article with that just that title.  He wrote about the sex harassment i...

  • Unemployment Down to 10%

    Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 09:27 in General, unemployment rate

     For the first time in months, the national unemployment rate has dropped.  Down to a "mere" 10%........ But, as the Workplace Prof mentions, that does not mean it will continue to decrease.  In fact, it might well increase b...

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