Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On May 25, 2022, ClearStar – a Leading HR-technology company specializing in background, drug, and medical screening services – is sponsoring a free webinar that will take “A Deep Dive Into 5 States’ Drug Testing Laws” with presenter Bill Current, President and Founding Partner of the Current…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 4, 2022, Harris County in Texas adopted a “Ban the Box” policy that will prohibit most county departments from asking about the criminal history of job applicants and remove the box on county employment applications that applicants must check if they have a criminal record,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 28, 2020, the Louisiana Supreme Court (LASC) issued an emergency order suspending all prescriptive, peremptive, and abandonment periods statewide for a period of thirty (30) days from the declaration of a state of emergency by Governor John Bel Edwards on August 21, 2020, due to…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Several courthouses in Louisiana and Texas were closed due to the effects of Hurricane Laura, a large tropical storm that came ashore near the border of Louisiana and Texas early on August 27, 2020, according to a news alert from a website maintained by the Administrative Office…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 6, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld an injunction that barred the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which enforces laws prohibiting employment discrimination – from enforcing the EEOC’s “Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 1, 2018, a U.S. District Court ruled in favor of Texas in a lawsuit challenging the guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that limits the ability of employers – including the state of Texas and its agencies – from categorically excluding convicted…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn (Updated November 7, 2017) The deceased suspect in a mass shooting in a Texas church that left 26 people dead and 20 others wounded – which Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called “the largest mass shooting” in the state’s history – passed a background check required to purchase the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn (Last Updated September 18, 2017) Along with tragic deaths, catastrophic flooding, and widespread damage caused by Hurricane Harvey – a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, on August 25, 2017 – courts affected by the tropical storm in Texas and Louisiana were closed for several days…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On May 26, 2017, the Texas Supreme Court delivered an opinion rejecting a claim of “compelled self-defamation” and declining to “recognize a theory of compelled self-defamation in Texas” in a case where a worker who failed a random drug test filed a lawsuit claiming defamation since he would…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled in Texas v. EEOC (No. 14-10949, 6/27/16) that the Lone Star state may challenge in court the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement guidance on the use of criminal background checks by employers, according…
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