The Dallas Hospitality Employment Lawyer Blog

For the past few years ROC United has published a "Diners Guide to Ethical Eating" that purports to rank restaurants based on various criteria, including hourly wages and the availability of paid leave.  Hospitality employers should know there's an app for that. For 2015, ROC United added new features to its app, available for Android and IPhone, including "raising awareness of racial justice issues" and encouraging users to leave on-line reviews. This is yet another method ROC United is using to influence the hospitality industry.

Last week the Texas House passed House Bill 910 (HB 910) which allows residents with concealed handgun licenses to carry their handguns in public, provided they are holstered.  A similar measure passed the Texas Senate last month, and the two bills must be reconciled before Governor Greg Abbott can weigh in.  Under current Texas law, citizens can open carry long guns but not handguns. In its current form, HB 910 requires amendments to no less than twelve statutes, including the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, Education Code, Labor Code, Penal Code, Election Code, Family Code, Government Code, Health and Safety Code, Local Government Code, Occupations Code, and Parks and Wildlife Code.   HB 910 legalizes the open carry of handguns (meaning in holsters) for those who, among other things: (i) are legal residents of the State of Texas for the 6-month period preceding the date of an application for an open-carry license; (ii) are at least 21...