Today’s post discusses an interesting case brought in Alabama under a racial harassment or hostile work environment case. This case is Adams v. Austal, U.S.A., LLC and the Eleventh Circuit’s appellate court’s decision is available here. The appeal deals with whether an employee may rely on evidence that the workplace was objectively hostile that he […]
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I’ve written in the past about 401k fees and how they can cripple your retirement savings. For as many problems as those 401k fees can cause they often pale in comparison to the fees retirees will pay after they rollover and transfer their funds to an IRA. A Bloomberg article from June 17, 2014 discusses
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Employment lawyers like myself deal with my fair share of FMLA cases for clients. Among those FMLA claims I see employers violate FMLA often because the employer was ignorant of FMLA regulations or had serious misconceptions about FMLA. I also get plenty of calls from employees who believe their employer violated FMLA but the employee
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When a Texas family court issues a custody order in a divorce with children or child custody case the court makes decisions based upon the facts of the family at that time. As parents start living separate lives and children grow older their lives change and sometimes that requires revisiting the original court order. If
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Last Wednesday I was at the Dallas County Family Courts helping a client wrap up an uncontested divorce. The early morning court sessions are typically open to what are called “prove ups” in which parties present testimony on uncontested issues (such as name changes, uncontested divorce decree signing, etc.) and the judge grants the orders
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Yes, you read that correctly. Three Boeing employees transformed their work uniform into makeshift KKK uniforms and lost their jobs. Then they filed suit for race discrimination because their African American coworker did not lose his. Yes, you read that correctly, too. This is the backdrop for Barker v. The Boeing Company, filed in Pennsylvania.
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