Discover the landmark $70 million verdict against Glow Networks in an employment discrimination case, exploring the legal nuances and implications. Learn how the choice between Section 1981 and Title VII made a monumental difference.
Read MoreA new survey shows a growing trend of employees demanding transparency around salaries within their organizations.
Read MoreTexas Employment Law Attorney Chris McKinney discusses a common question: Is it illegal for my boss to be a bully?
Read MoreTexas employment law attorney Chris McKinney discusses employment at will and wrongful termination in today's video.
Today’s video topic is what is employment at will and how will it affect my wrongful termination claim?
Read MoreToday, Texas employment lawyer Chris McKinney discusses what happens at the end of the EEOC investigation process? What is a Determination Letter? Chris explains all of this and more in today’s video:
Read MoreToday, Texas employment lawyer Chris McKinney discusses the EEOC mediation process and explains how it works.
Read MoreTexas employment lawyer Chris McKinney explains what happens when you file an EEOC charge?
Read MoreIn today’s video, Texas employment lawyer Chris McKinney discusses the who, why, what, where, when of the EEOC. What's it all about? Do I have to file? What do I put in my filing?
Chris covers all of this and more in this video:
Read MoreMany employees are not aware that before you can you file a lawsuit in court regarding an employment discrimination or employment retaliation case, you generally need to go through an administrative agency first. Typically that is the EEOC. Today, we are going to discuss the who, what, where, when, and why of filing an EEOC Charge of Discrimination.
Read MoreThe HR community in the U.S. appears to be slowing moving to remove the barriers standing in the way of job seekers with criminal histories. But the courts, as is typical for the judicial system, are a lagging indicator of this move.
Read MoreSo you need to hire an employment lawyer but you don’t know how to get started? Then this video is for you. Hiring an employment attorney to guide you through an employment-related dispute can be challenging.
For this reason it is important that you do some research and get your own materials together before you start making calls. Employment lawyer Chris McKinney Explains.
Bias remains a barrier to workplace equity. A McKinsey study on women in the workplace found that for every 100 men promoted into their first managerial positions, only 72 women get the same opportunity.
Read MoreThis story brings into sharp focus the challenges that women — especially non-white women — can face in the workplace.
Read MoreA San Jose-based electrical subcontractor at the Apple Park construction project, Air Systems Inc. (ASI), will pay $1,250,000 to eight African American former employees and provide other relief to settle a racial harassment lawsuit
Read MoreIn 1969, when African-American citizens in the United States were not permitted to swim in community pools along side white people, Fred Rogers brought a African-American police officer to his television show and invited him to cool his feet with him in a small, plastic wading pool.
Read MoreSan Antonio-based CCC Group, Inc. violated federal law when it fostered a work environment rife with racist comments and discriminatory work conditions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed this month in New York State.
Read MoreJuries are meant to be the conscious of the community. Jury trials are the purest form of democracy in action. They act as a pressure relief valve of sorts for society and allow the people to have a say in determining what is acceptable behavior and what is not. By preventing the vast majority of discrimination cases from ever getting to a jury, the courts are effectively plugging up society’s pressure relief valve. And eventually, if things continue down this road, that pressure is likely to blow up.
Read MoreThe Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of White Glove's racial discrimination claim, holding that White Glove did not need a racial identity to have standing to assert a 42 U.S.C. 1981 racial discrimination claim and White Glove has statutory standing to assert a section 1981 racial discrimination claim.
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San Antonio Express News has an investigative report out today covering the rampant wage theft that still takes place against produce workers in the Rio Grand Valley: Fair pay a distant dream for produce packers in Rio Grande Valley
For two years, Jorge Perez Hernandez worked 12 to 18 hours a day, six days a week, in a small refrigerated warehouse here. He sorted fruit and vegetables from Mexico and repackaged them for distribution in the U.S.
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“I came in at 8 a.m. and I left at 11 p.m. or 12 at night, with an (unpaid) hour for lunch and dinner,” he said. “Six days a week.”
And when they complain or report being underpaid…
“Sometimes he’d carry the gun, put it on the table so we could see it there, to intimidate us,” Perez Hernandez recalled.
De La Fuente heard about their complaint and fired all six workers, Galvan said.
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Employers have coached workers to lie to investigators about their pay and working conditions, and in some cases have fired them for cooperating, court records show. In one case, a packing company reported an undocumented worker to U.S. immigration authorities to retaliate against the man for talking to investigators, according to court records.
And, the workers get the message…
After Fuentes Farms fired them, five of the six workers who had complained to the commission dropped their cases. They feared being blacklisted in the industry — or worse, deported.
The government can’t keep up, even with help from excellent public interest firms like Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
Experts largely agree that the Department of Labor doesn’t have the resources to stay on top of the situation. Many workers say speaking up often means becoming unemployable.
In this border region of Texas, many undocumented workers struggle to feed their families, being abused by American companies while staying under the radar to avoid deportation. What keeps them going is their dream for future generations.
“They want their children to be educated,” he said.
His oldest child is 15, a sophomore in high school. Like his parents, he is undocumented. Unlike them, he speaks both English and Spanish. When he grows up, he wants to be a lawyer.
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A Michigan jury awarded more than $11 million this month to a husband-and-wife pair who sued the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging claims of race discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation.
A six-member all-white jury delivered its unanimous verdict after a six-week trial that included 41 witnesses and hinged on allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation. The plaintiff alleged that she was racially harassed on a daily basis including being called 'Mammy', (being) asked if she wanted chitlins on her pizza, called the "black one" in her all-white office, and told she was not wanted in the all-white office. She also claimed she was put into life-threatening situations after complaining about racism.
The plaintiff had worked for the state for 19 years. Because of the work environment, the plaintiff transferred to another office, but she said the race discrimination and retaliation continued. Her husband also was allegedly forced to retire from his job as a deputy warden when phony disciplinary charges were brought against him. The jury awarded the plaintiff $5.1 million and her husband $6.25 million.
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