In a clever move, Bexar Metropolitan Water District has offered Gilbert Herrera, a whistleblower, his old job back. See San Antonio Express News report. Bexar Met has also deposited the amount of Mr. Herrera’s lost pay into the registry of the court. Yet, the lawsuit will proceed.
See my prior post about Mr. Herrera
Yes, you can get fired for anything in an at-will state. A Green Bay Packer fan was fired in Chicago because he wore a Packer tie to work. See report. He wore the tie to his job selling cars at Webb
Chevrolet shortly after the Packers beat the Bears in a playoff game. The
The employer does lose, sometimes. I wrote about the nurses who complained about a doctor. See prior post. The nurses were charged with felonies, which charges were eventually dropped. They then filed a whistleblower lawsuit and eventually settled. Their lawsuit became nationally known. Well, now the doctor they complained about has now suffered his
SPC4 Omar Soltero was killed in Afghanistan recently. He was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division and was serving in Wardek Province in Central Afghanistan. He was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device (aka "roadside bomb"). See San Antonio Express News report. His parents live on the northeast part of town. He was in
A colleague in Oregon agrees with my post that settling discrimination cases requires a client (employer and employee) to deal in reality. Joel Christiansen, who writes a nice blog on employment law, points out that emotional suffering can be supported by stories about missed mortgage payments. It helps to discuss and consider these emotional topics.
Social media is that new frontier we always hear about – or one of them anyway. Some lawyers are still trying to understand the limits. One lawyer in South Florida was upset about a judge, who he believed was circumventing the speedy trial requirements. So, he posted a blog entry about a judge. The judge