Vicki Wilmarth spoke to host Jason Boyett about the obstacles, opportunities and obligations that local businesses are facing during this pandemic. Listen to...

Webinar presented by Vicki Wilmarth and Josh Butler on April 2, 2020 to help Texas businesses understand their obligations and opportunities during the Coron...

Congress has passed and President Trump has signed a new law that requires small employers to provide paid leave to employees for two weeks of sick leave and...

As COVID-19 dominates the headlines, Texas employers still have businesses to run and employees to supervise. The novel coronavirus, which causes the disease...

Character is not generational, racial or gender-specific. I’ve worked with some terrific young employees and some terrible older ones, some unbelievably hard...

Employers ask me all the time about docking the weekly salary of an exempt employee if a salaried worker misses a half-day for a child’s school field trip or...

As 2020 begins, many Texas employers are wondering if they can still drug test their employees for marijuana use. Several states have legalized recreational ...

A new federal overtime rule that has been finalized by the U.S. Department of Labor will become effective on January 1, 2020. The final rule requires employe...

If you as an employer allow racist or nationalistic statements like "Go back to where you came from" to ever be expressed at your business to one of your emp...

Employers in Dallas and San Antonio have to start providing paid sick leave to their employees as of August 1, 2019. Vicki's employment law blog details thos...

Since abortion laws are such a hot topic right now, employers should be warned: firing a woman for obtaining an abortion is discrimination. A federal judge r...

In 2019, the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) is again starting to send “No Match” letters after a seven-year hiatus to employers who reported payroll ...

A new federal overtime rule that has been proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor may become effective early in 2020, and employers need to start preparing ...

Sometimes as a new Texas employer, you just need a quick reference guide to what you are supposed to be doing. Here is a brief rundown of some of the things ...

The federal government is working employees without pay.What prevents you as a private employer from taking a play from this shutdown playbook and requiring ...

Is it legal for one of your employees to secretly record your conversations with that worker for the employee to use as evidence in a discrimination case? If...

Since Election Day is Tuesday, November 6, here are some quick reminders for employers about the Texas election laws that you must follow. Employers must giv...

What can you do to protect your company secrets when Angela, your vice-president of sales, announces she is leaving your company and going to work for your c...

The federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently sided with an employer who promptly took five comprehensive steps in response to reprehensible racial har...

If you think that only illegal aliens need to be concerned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), then as an employer, you have not been paying a...