The Family Medical Leave Act is nothing new, and neither are the difficulties, issues and paperwork that comes with it.  Most likely, at one point or another, the FMLA has caused a problem for you and your company.  Maybe you had questions about paying an exempt employee when they take intermittent FMLA leave after using up all of their vacation and sick leave.  Or maybe you had a “difficult” employee take FMLA leave just as you were getting ready to terminate them, leading to questions about when and how to go about the termination (or maybe you just let them go and are currently looking down the barrel of a retaliation lawsuit). The FMLA forbids an employer from retaliating against[…]

When a Texas employee believes he or she has been discriminated against at work because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information under a number of federal laws, they can file a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. All of the laws enforced by the EEOC, except the Equal Pay Act, require an employee to file a charge before filing a job discrimination lawsuit. The employee must bring the charge within 180 days from the day the discrimination took place, or within 300 days if a state or local agency enforces a law that prohibits employment discrimination on the same basis. With allegations of age discrimination, the filing deadline[…]