Today, November 4, 2021, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued several rules related to vaccine mandates. Critical to private employers with 100 or more employees, the OSHA rule […]
As part of his plan to combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, President Biden previously announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) would implement an emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring […]
What started with Bitcoin in 2009 has developed into a market of over 6,500 digital assets increasingly competing with traditional products offered by financial institutions. The rapid expansion of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, has led […]
KRCL's Labor & Employment Practice Group will host a webinar on Wednesday, November, November 17, 2021, from noon - 1:00 p.m. This presentation will feature Douglas Bracken, Dennis Duffy, Darren Harrington, and Andrea (AJ) Johnson as they discuss […]
Mandatory Employee Vaccination Rules Present Challenges when Considering Religious Exceptions to the Rule.
As we reported earlier (see the KRCL blog post, here), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) is in the process of developing an “emergency” temporary standard, requiring employers with more than 100 employees to mandate that their employees be fully vaccinated or, if the employee is excused from the mandate, to produce a negative COVID-19 test at least once per week. Although it is not clear when OSHA’s temporary rule will be issued (and there will likely be several state challenges to the anticipated rule), a number of employers are already implementing mandatory vaccine policies in the workplace.
Director Karen Cox has been named to the 2021 Top Women Lawyers list by the Texas Diversity Council. She was honored during the Texas Diversity Legal Summit on September 28, 2021.
In May 2021, as part of the American Families Plan, the Biden Administration proposed that financial institutions should report consumer and business account activity exceeding $600 annually. Proponents of the legislation claim that it will give the […]
KRCL is proud to announce that 18 of the firm’s attorneys have been listed in the 2021 Texas Super Lawyers ranking. Each year, Thomson Reuters publishes a list that recognizes less than five percent of Texas attorneys for their professional achievements […]
By: Dennis P. Duffy1
In an en banc decision that the dissent predicted will wreck needless and excessive suffering to the “oyl biddness,” the Fifth Circuit held that a day rate—even for employees earning over $200k a year—does not meet the salary basis test for exempt status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), unless the employer also provides a minimum weekly guarantee that the employee must earn regardless of hours worked. Hewitt v. Helix Energy Solutions, No. 19-20023 (5th Cir. September 9, 2021) (en banc).
On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six-pronged plan to combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The first prong of the plan is "Vaccinating the Unvaccinated." A central component of this first […]
Under the old version of 38.001, the recovery of attorney’s fees was permitted “from an individual or corporation.” Courts interpreting this provision overwhelmingly concluded that it did not support recovery of attorney’s fees […]
Kane Russell Coleman Logan has twenty attorneys recognized in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, including 4 on the “Ones to Watch list. These attorneys represent a broad cross-section of the firm’s corporate, litigation, real estate […]