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 proce...

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 forgive...

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

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 t...

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 opportunit...

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

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

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

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 leg...

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 r...

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

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

Since abortion laws are such a hot topic right now, employers should be warned: firing a woman for obtaining an abortion is discriminatio...

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

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...