Wills Point resident Cathy McCoy filed a lawsuit on Thursday, July 14 in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas against the City of Van, claiming sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
According to the legal complaint that McCoy filed, the city subjected her to a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and eventually unlawful termination between May 2014 and July 2015. McCoy said after a training officer sexually harassed her, the City of Van refused to transfer her to a new training officer. She was therefore exposed to a hostile working environment every day for the duration of her employment. The city fired her after claiming that she did not have the ability to complete her training, McCoy claimed. McCoy is suing for emotional pain, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of wages, and loss of enjoyment of life.
The employment attorneys at The Melton Law Firm handle employment concerns and problems such as hostile working environment and wrongful termination cases. To learn more about your legal options and rights or to discuss your situation, speak with our attorneys by calling our Austin offices today at (512) 330-0017.
Tom Green County, Texas resident Amalio Barrientes has filed a class action lawsuit, individually and on behalf of other people, on Friday, July 1 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas against a string of energy companies such as KLX Inc., KLX Energy Services, and OFS 2 Deal 2 LLC, which is formerly known as Vision Oil Tools LLC, claiming that they violated the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act by not paying proper overtime wages.
According to the lawsuit, Barrientes worked with the defendants between June 2014 and March 2016 for over 40 hours per week without receiving proper compensation for his work and was paid a fixed sum of money even if his hours went past normal working hours.
There are a myriad of ways that an employer, either willfully or due to unintentional negligence, cause undue, unjust, or unfair treatment to its employees. If you have experienced wrongful termination, overtime/wage disputes, retaliation, or other employment issues in your workplace, do not hesitate to get in touch with our attorneys at The Melton Law Firm by calling our Austin offices today at (512) 330-0017.
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last Tuesday, June 28 announced that Pflugerville, Texas-based amusement park Austin’s Park N Pizza has conceded in bringing payment of $20,000 to a 26-year-old former employee, and change some of its former employment practices to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit.
According to EEOC, the former employee who suffered from a traumatic brain injury when he was a child, was terminated via email by the company because he could not work an electronic time clock system that was recently installed at the amusement park.
EEOC’s Dallas District Office regional attorney Robert Canino, who said that the former employee has spent four years working part-time for the company, handling weekend custodial duties, bussing tables, and assisting customers who want to play at the miniature golf course, noted that, “There is no justification for discriminating against a person with a cognitive impairment who has demonstrated ability and enthusiasm in executing his assigned duties.”
If you have suffered unfair treatment at the hands of an unscrupulous employer, or you have been subjected to harassment of any kind at your place of work, do not hesitate to contact our attorneys at The Melton Law Firm who have extensive legal experience when it comes to helping workers. Call our Austin, Texas offices at (512) 330-0017 to speak with a qualified member of our legal team.
