Employment discrimination

The Age of Discrimination in Employment Act, or ADEA, was implemented in 1967 to protect employees and applicants who are 40 and older from employment discrimination based on their age. The ADEA must be adhered to by private companies with 20 or more employees as well...

Texas employers are generally required to treat their employees equally regardless of their age, sex or religious views. However, there is still a chance that you will be treated differently than your colleagues for reasons other than your job performance. Let's take...

With troubled economic times, many people are working later into life than before. For members of the Texas workforce who are of an advanced age, the possibility for workplace age discrimination increases significantly. These employees might wonder if their employer...

Throughout the state of Texas and across the nation, the #MeToo movement forced a conversation on equality and the treatment of women. This is an opportunity that we should not pass up as a society to address some fundamental gender-based injustices that persist in...

Systematic discrimination in Texas workplaces continues to be a problem. There are several different ways that systematic discrimination can be defined: It may impact a particular geographic location, an industry, a profession or a company. Alternatively, you can also...

Whether you're right out of college, later in your career or somewhere in between, struggling with job searches is something everyone faces at some point. While employers across Texas can't legally consider protected characteristics in their hiring decisions, many...

Many industries have a largely female workforce, but management that is dominated by men. The hotel industry is no exception. Most of a typical hotel's workforce is female, yet only 12 percent of American hotels' leadership positions, ranging from owner down to...