Texas Employment Law Blog

On November 30, 2017, we filed suit in Federal Court in Austin, Texas against AccentCare, Inc., a nationwide home healthcare company. The case was filed on behalf of Estella Lynn Trammell and a class of individuals who were shorted overtime pay by AccentCare. The lawsuit alleges that AccentCare shorted its employees overtime through two pay […]

On Friday, November 17, 2017, Moreland Law Firm, P.C. filed suit in Federal Court in Midland, Texas against Globe Energy Services, LLC and Light Tower Rentals, LLC, both now doing business as Gravity Oilfield Services. The case was filed on behalf of Calvin Scott and a class of Operators for Gravity. Scott brings claims under […]

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, Moreland Law Firm, P.C. filed suit in Federal Court in Del Rio, Texas against companies operating the Val Verde Regional Medical Center. The case was filed on behalf of Donald Sehr and a class of LVNs and RNs. Sehr brings claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”) against […]

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, Moreland Law Firm, P.C. filed suit in Federal Court in Austin, Texas against Oracle. The case was filed on behalf of Daniel Wilson and a class of inside sales representatives dubbed “Account Executives” by Oracle. Wilson brings claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”), the federal law that […]

Although federal overtime laws are more than eighty years old, we frequently encounter situations where employees are deprived of the pay to which they are entitled. Worse yet, the violations go back many years. Employers get away with these violations for long periods of time, in part because both the employer and the employees wrongly […]

This is Part 3 of our three part series regarding overtime violations among Department of Defense contractors.  If you have not already, check out Part 1 (Common Violations in the Industry) and Part 2 (Why Defense Contractors Violate). Recently, the Center for Public Integrity conducted a study of wage and hour violations by federal contractors from January 2015 to July […]