Month: June 2013
Call center employees are often required to work more than forty hours per week. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, employers are required to pay most workers one and a…
Employees in the health care industry are entitled to be paid for all hours they worked, whether they are at their usual work stations or not. Often, employers in the health care…
Every day it seems that there is another local headline of significant layoffs by a company trying to increase its profits. Even in Texas, where the economy has been stronger than elsewhere,…
As a general matter, employers are required to pay one and a half times a worker’s ordinary rate for every hour worked in excess of forty per week, unless the worker is…
A semi-truck hauling hay on I-35W in far north Fort Worth caught fire and destroyed the semi-truck on Friday, June 14, 2013. Fire Worth Fire Department investigators could not determine what started…
Almost one-third of commercial tractor-trailers pulled over in Wise County this week for a spot check failed inspections and were taken out of service, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety….
In West Texas and New Mexico, oilfield jobs are aplenty thanks to a boom in oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin. Today, the Permian Basin accounts for approximately fourteen percent…
Health care employees are often required to work long hours under stressful conditions. Unfortunately, they are often shorted when it comes to overtime pay. Many employees in the health care industry are…
Semi-trucks have previously been banned from the left lane on parts of Interstates 20, 30 and 45 in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. So now the DOT plans to drastically increase the number…
Technology has dramatically changed the ways in which Americans work. A recent study highlights that Americans are spending more hours working at home. In a survey of American employees sponsored by Good…