Severance and Texas unemployment benefits: Can I take both?

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Benefits Law, Wrongful Termination Law

Texas employees often question the relationship between severance pay and unemployment benefits through the Texas Workforce Commission. Workers often think if they accept severance pay they are automatically ineligible for unemployment benefits in Texas. That is incorrect. The terms of the severance agreement determine whether you can receive severance and unemployment pay in Texas. Basic …

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EEOC mediation and lawsuit settlement amounts in Texas

Age Discrimination Law, Disability Discrimination Law, Employment Litigation Attorneys, Racial Discrimination Law, Religious Discrimination Law, Sex Discrimination Law, Wrongful Termination Law

EEOC mediations and lawsuits often end in settlement of claims for employment discrimination in Texas, including wrongful termination. An important question for many employees filing employment discrimination claims with the EEOC is what they can expect in a settlement. Many employment discrimination complaints filed with the EEOC in Dallas settle either in mediation with the …

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Cheap uncontested divorce lawyers in Texas — Flat fee uncontested divorce in Texas

Divorce Law, Uncontested Divorce Attorneys

Many people search for cheap uncontested divorce lawyers in Texas because the spouses have an agreement on a simple divorce and need low cost help getting through the Texas family courts. In agreed divorces with simple property and custody issues it makes sense to look for cheap uncontested divorce. It isn’t necessary to spend thousands …

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Challenges of custody modifications without a lawyer in Dallas and Tarrant County, Texas

Child Custody Law

Custody modifications in Dallas County, Tarrant County and other parts of Texas are a natural function of lives changing after a divorce or suit affecting the parent-child relationship (SAPCR). The children grow up and develop different interests and relationships. The parents find new relationships and see other changes in employment, homes, etc. Custody orders often …

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Can I be fired for discussing politics at work?

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

Texas employees have good reason to worry about how the polarized political climate may affect their jobs. Certainly changes in employment laws could have a meaningful change to employment in Texas. These could occur in changes to: civil rights protections for gay and transgender employees; minimum wage and overtime pay regulations; investment adviser fiduciary duties …

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Dallas Police and Firefighters Pension Funding Crisis

Employment Benefits Law, Retirement Plan/401k/Pension

Dallas residents may have discovered over the past several months a financial crisis in their city related to the Dallas Police and Firefighters Pension. Few people really understand pension funding and how pension funding created this billion dollar shortfall for the city. The local news media in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas has done a fairly good …

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Interview with Fort Worth Divorce Attorney Adam Kielich

Child Custody Law, Divorce Law, Property Division Attorneys, Uncontested Divorce Attorneys

Adam Kielich is a Fort Worth divorce attorney and managing attorney at The Kielich Law Firm in Bedford, Texas. This is an adaptation of an interview provided for a local journalism program researching the Tarrant County legal system. This research includes the affordability of legal counsel, the efficiency of the courts and overall fairness in the …

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Seven Ways Legal TV Shows Are Not Like Real Life Trials (and three they are)

Domestic Relations Law, Employment Law, Personal Injury Law

Courtroom and legal television is nearly as old as television itself, dating back to classic shows like Perry Mason–but how real are they? Not very real at all. The range of courtroom comedies, drama and “reality” shows over seventy years of television cover the entire range from editorializing real events to completely ridiculous fictionalized worlds. …

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The 323rd District Court in Fort Worth, Texas

Child Custody Law, Divorce Law, Uncontested Divorce Attorneys

The 323rd district court in Fort Worth handles family law cases and juvenile criminal cases. Although it is a family law court it does not hear divorces or other private family disputes. Instead it handles CPS and other child welfare disputes in Tarrant County. The 323rd district court might be most well known for the affluenza case. If …

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What can I do if I want an uncontested divorce in Texas but can’t find my spouse?

Divorce Law, Uncontested Divorce Attorneys

Sometimes a married couple in Texas will decide to separate and eventually lose contact with each other. At some point one spouse decides he or she needs an uncontested divorce and not to fight over the terms of the divorce. The non-filing spouse has a right of due process under the federal and Texas constitutions to …

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Can my Texas employer fire me for doing what my manager told me to do?

Employee rights lawyer, Retaliation Law, Wrongful Termination Law

Here’s a tricky situation: you follow a specific instruction from your manager or a company policy. Then your employer fires you. Can this happen for following orders? Unfortunately, in most cases the answer: yes. Seems bizarre–and it is–but this is the nature of the at-will employment relationship. In an at-will employment relationship the employer can discipline an employee, …

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Just been fired? Apply for unemployment benefits in Texas

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Benefits Law, Employment Litigation Attorneys, Wrongful Termination Law

If you are fired (aka discharged, terminated) from your job then one of your first acts in almost all cases should be to apply for unemployment benefits. Applying for unemployment benefits through the Texas Workforce Commission is free so even if denied benefits you have only lost the time applying. This is true even if …

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College Retirement Plans under Fire for Excessive Investment Fees

Employment Benefits Law, Retirement Plan/401k/Pension

The past ten to fifteen years has given rise to a set of lawsuits against 401k plan administrators over excessive plan fees and revenue sharing agreements between plan administrators and recordkeepers. We are probably approaching the end of this wave of excessive fee litigation against for-profit employers for 401k plans. A new wave of excessive retirement …

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EEOC hits Dunkin Donuts franchise for $330k in sexual harassment suit

Employment Litigation Attorneys, Retaliation Law, Sex Discrimination Law

Last week the EEOC settled  a Title VII sexual harassment and retaliation suit against multiple Dunkin Donuts franchises. The $330,000 settlement, which covers multiple employees, includes a multi-year training and oversight provision to avoid similar events in the future. The EEOC press release describes the events alleged in the lawsuit as follows: Hillcrest Marshall violated federal law by …

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Texas Employment Attorney’s 10 Signs You Should Not Take That Job

Employee rights lawyer, Hiring & Promotion, Wrongful Termination Law

In a tough job market it’s always difficult to turn down a job but sometimes the company culture is so toxic or the boss is so insufferable that it’s more harmful to your health and career than the benefit of the paycheck. Of course, that’s an easy thing to say when you have a paycheck. …

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Should my Fort Worth divorce decree identify my financial accounts and debts in Texas?

Divorce Law, Property Division Attorneys, Uncontested Divorce Attorneys

Drafting divorce decrees and other legal documents is an art form. It requires understanding what the law requires. One must also know the balance between what may appear and what should appear. The answers may not be a black and white issue. There may be competing concerns and what is right is often a judgment …

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Employees must engage interactive process in good faith for ADA failure to accommodate claims in Texas

Disability Discrimination Law, Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and the Texas Labor Code require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with qualified disabilities. A reasonable accommodation allows a disabled employees equal access to the workplace and allow them to perform the essential functions of their jobs. Many employers refuse to provide any reasonable accommodation. This results in a failure …

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