The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced this week that it received 99,412 employment discrimination complaints in 2012. While this number sounds very large, it is actually a slight decrease from the number of complaints fielded in 2011. However, the EEOC is still receiving…

Last week we discussed the case of a man in Texas who claimed his employer cost him a job because he complained about being discriminated against. This week, we have learned of another case in which a worker allegedly lost his job for complaining…

Under both Texas law and federal law, employees have the right to work in workplaces free of discrimination on the basis of a number of things. They include race, sex, religion, pregnancy, nationality, disability and other classifications. Not only does the law stop employers…

Most often when people think of workplace discrimination, they might imagine the victims to be of racial or other minority groups. However, this is not always the case as people who identify with majority groups are sometimes discriminated against as well. Title VI of…

Despite the fact that the Equal Pay Act was enacted almost 50 years ago, this country still has a ways to go when it comes to ensuring equal pay for equal work. This is made obvious by the fact that Texas state agencies settled…