by deshazonesbitt | Apr 12, 2021 | blog, Guidance
In an alert issued today, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) described what many employers have been seeing for a few weeks now: a wave of fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits. Bad actors are using personal information stolen from the internet (not from the...
by deshazonesbitt | Jun 15, 2020 | blog
Today, June 15, 2020, the United States Supreme Court held that firing an individual for being gay or transgender is sex discrimination and therefore violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The 6-3 opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia, which was...
by deshazonesbitt | May 15, 2020 | Announcements, blog
On Friday, May 8, DeShazo & Nesbitt attorney Tom Nesbitt spoke at the University of Texas School of Law’s 27th Annual Labor and Employment Law Continuing Legal Education Conference. In a presentation titled “The Ethics of Civility,” Tom and his co-presenter,...
by deshazonesbitt | Apr 20, 2020 | Announcements, blog
DeShazo & Nesbitt is happy to welcome Will Palmer to the firm as an associate. Previously in the litigation section of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco, Will earned his JD from Columbia Law School. During law school, he served as a judicial...
by deshazonesbitt | Apr 2, 2020 | blog, Guidance
April 2, 2020 is the effective date of the Emergency Paid Sick Leave and FMLA expansion provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which Congress passed and the President signed into law on March 18, 2020. The new law temporarily requires employers...
by deshazonesbitt | Mar 20, 2020 | blog, Guidance
On March 19, 2020 the EEOC updated its 2009 guidance on pandemic-related issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act. While reiterating that individual decisions concerning employees with disabilities should be based on objective, factual evidence, the EEOC...
