Age discrimination cases are difficult for employers to win because the elderly make very sympathetic plaintiffs and the judges and...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an Executive Order on April 5, 2021, purporting to ban “vaccination passports” in Texas. But Texas...

Small employers have several reasons to be encouraged by the stimulus bill, including the option of continuing to get a tax credit for...

Texas employers are asking if they can require their employees to get vaccinated when vaccines become available to more of the public. In...

COVID-19 infections in the Texas Panhandle are raging like a wildfire, so what is an employer’s duty to prevent its spread and what...

Even though the idea has been in the news recently, at the current time there is no absolute liability immunity for Texas employers from...

The United State Supreme Court today outlawed LGBT discrimination in employment based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In a...

Late last week, the Small Business Administration posted interim rules and the application for employers to complete when seeking...

The Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department finally have eased the minds of many Paycheck Protection Program borrowers...

Texas employers should know that there are many requirements to protect your employees and customers from COVID-19 that you must address...

So your Texas Panhandle company has received Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) funds, hopefully, and now you are wondering how to use...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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