Blog Posts in December, 2016

How to Avoid Some of the Most Common Employment Lawsuits

Employment law often does not get the respect or attention that it deserves from employers , employees , and company executives . Many people make the mistake of learning state law and overlooking federal law, or vice versa. Unfortunately, this inadvertent oversight and lack of complete comprehension of the law can and does frequently lead to employment law violations and lawsuits. Here’s three of ...

New Overtime Law to Raise Threshold Blocked by TX Federal Judge

Earlier in the year, the Obama Administration backed and passed a ruling from the Department of Labor (DOL) that would have doubled the minimum threshold for mandatory overtime pay for salaried workers. As the ruling stated, starting December 1 st , 2016, the new threshold would be $47,476 per year, up from $23,660. That has not come into effect, however, and likely will not, due to a federal ...

Former Prairie View A&M Coach Sues School for Defamation

Dawn Brown, the former coach of the Prairie View A&M women’s basketball team who was fired for removing players from the team for violating the team’s dating rules, is now filing a lawsuit against the school for defamation. According to the lawsuit, Ms. Brown is seeking more up to $1,000,000 in damages plus attorney’s fees. The issue stems from a team rule forbidding team members to date fellow ...