Tag: employment attorneys

Dallas, Texas Employment Attorney Discusses the Ideal Non-Compete Agreement

/cdklawyers.com// 05/26/2012 Dallas, Texas employment attorney Keith Clouse drafts non-compete agreements for both senior executives and employers. In his twenty years of practicing employment law, he has seen all sorts of non-compete agreements. In some cases, it seemed the employers sought to punish executives for even thinking about leaving. A typical onerous non-competition agreement restricted […]

Texas Supreme Court Rules on Workers’ Compensation Coverage Issue

/cdklawyers.com// 02/10/2012 The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled on a workers’ compensation coverage issue. Port Elevator-Brownsville, L.L.C. v. Casados, No. 10-0523 (Tex. Jan. 27, 2012), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2012/jan/100523.pdf. The plaintiffs’ son suffered a fatal work-related injury while working as a temporary worker for Port Elevator. The plaintiffs did not seek workers’ compensation benefits from Port […]

Who Qualifies as an “Employer” Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

/cdklawyers.com// 01/26/2011 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee based on the employee’s race, color, national origin, gender, or religion. But not every person or entity that employs workers qualifies as an employer under the statute and thus not every entity is bound […]

EEOC Reports Workplace Discrimination Charges at All Time High

/cdklawyers.com// 01/24/2011 The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently announced that more private sector workplace discrimination charges had been filed with the federal agency in fiscal year 2010 than ever before.  The statement, released on January 11, 2011, is available here: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/1-11-11.cfm.  The EEOC enforces federal laws that prohibit employment discrimination, harassment and […]

EEOC Issues Press Release Regarding 2010 Statistics

/cdklawyers.com// 12/09/2010 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued a press release detailing statistics from its fiscal year 2010 (available at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/11-23-10.cfm).  The EEOC is the federal agency charged with enforcing federal civil rights laws that protect America’s workers from discrimination and retaliation, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the […]

Kansas employment news: $6.5M awarded to wrongly terminated Kansas City cop

Legal news for Kansas employment attorneys. A Jackson County jury awarded a former Kansas City police officer $6.5 million in damages. Employment attorneys alert- A former Kansas City police officer was awarded millions for wrongful termination by a Jackson County jury. Kansas City, KS—A wrongly terminated Kansas City police officer was awarded $6.5 million by […]

West Virginia coal mine explosion killed 25; Obama offers fed. government aid

Legal News for West Virginia Employment Attorneys. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is expected to probe a coal mine explosion that killed 25 miners. News for West Virginia employment attorneys- Twenty-five miners suffered fatal injuries in a Massey Energy coal mine explosion. Julian, WV—A devastating coal mine explosion resulted in 25 fatalities Monday, […]

Industrial accident at Lawrence, KS plant kills 2 MagnaGro workers

Legal news for Kansas employment attorneys. An industrial accident killed workers at MagnaGro. Kansas employment attorneys alert- An industrial accident at a fertilizer plant left two people dead. Lawrence, KS—A Lawrence fertilizer plant was draped in yellow crime scene tape and buzzing with police officers and medical teams following an accident that killed two workers […]

OSHA fined Ohio company

Legal News for Ohio Employment Attorneys. Ohio Decorative Products has been issued three workplace safety violations, amounting to $91,000 in proposed fees. Employment attorney alerts- Workplace accident prompted OSHA to cite company for workplace safety violations which pose injury hazards to employees. Spencerville, OH—The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has […]

Idaho Falls man buried alive inside a General Mills grain elevator

Legal news for Idaho employment attorneys. A grain elevator accident killed a worker who was trying to unclog it. Idaho employment attorneys alert- A workplace accident involving a General Mills grain elevator killed a man. Rexburg, ID—An accident at General Mills Elevators left an Idaho Hills man dead on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. The fatal […]