July 2020 has been another busy month for the federal and state agencies that regulate employment in addressing COVID-19. The following briefly summarizes some of the most recently-published agency guidance and other resources available to assist employers in navigating the ongoing pandemic in their workplace. These materials include new guidance from the DOL on unemployment …read more »
Being on Leave Makes Current Employees Unemployed: Texas Supreme Court’s Counterintuitive Unemployment Act Decision
Usually disputes over unemployment focus on whether a former employee was fired for work-connected misconduct or quit for a good enough work-connected reason. But when exactly is a person unemployed, so that he or she can file for unemployment in the first place? The Texas Supreme Court’s answer: an individual “qualifies as unemployed so long …read more »