Employment law is an area that covers regulations and laws regarding labor relations and employment issues. We provide quality representation in a broad range of employment law matters, including:

• Employment contracts
• Non-compete agreements
• Unfair competition
• Unpaid overtime and wages
• Unlawful discrimination
• Sexual harrassment
• Wrongful termination

Unlawful Discrimination

Federal and state laws prohibit most employers, employment agencies and unions from discriminating against job applicants or employees on the basis of:

• Age
• Race
• Color
• Gender
• Religion
• Disability
• Pregnancy
• National Origin
• Labor organizing

Employers must abide by federal and state anti-discrimination laws at each stage of their hiring and employment processes — from the advertisement and interview to the job offer and promotion.

Equal Pay for Equal Work

The President recently signed the 2009 federal Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act.  This new law removes past obstacles to women recovering damages for past pay discrimination. 

Wage discrimination is prohibited by both the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.  Jobs and job descriptions do not have to be identical for the law to require pay equality. If two employees are actually doing the same work, it doesn't matter if their titles or job descriptions differ. What counts is the duties the employees actually perform. In general, the courts have ruled that two jobs are equal for the purposes of the Equal Pay Act when both require largely equal levels of skill, effort, and responsibility and are performed under similar conditions. 

The law also requires that benefits, not just pay, be equal. Furthermore, the law protects from retaliation employees who assert their rights, or the rights of their co-workers, to equal pay.  

 Call us if you have questions at (903) 892-9133.  From the worker's side it's good to be clear whether there is legal merit to your concern.  From the business' perspective, an ounce of prevention can be worth far more than a pound of cure.

_{Lawyers resolving employment disputes for clients throughout North Texas, including the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, Plano, Sherman, and other communities in Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, and Tarrant counties.}