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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has permanently enjoined a controversial Dallas ordinance requiring employers to provide paid sick leave benefits to certain employees. The permanent injunction took effect on March 31, 2021.
Dallas was the third city in Texas to enact a paid sick leave ordinance, following the adoption of nearly identical laws in Austin and San Antonio. All three would have required covered private employers to provide certain paid sick leave benefits to employees based on hours worked within city limits. While the Austin and San Antonio laws were enjoined before they took effect, legal challenges to the Dallas law were not prosecuted until after it became effective on August 1, 2019. The ordinance remained in effect for approximately eight months until March 30, 2020, when the federal court
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On March 10, 2021, the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals upheld a
preliminary injunction preventing San Antonio s amended Sick
and Safe Leave Benefits ordinance from taking effect since December
2019. In its decision, the appellate court held that San
Antonio s ordinance violates the Texas Minimum Wage Act. As
detailed below, this decision is one in a line of decisions that
has prevented these kinds of ordinances from taking effect across
Texas over the last several years.
The City of San Antonio was the second city in Texas to enact a paid sick and
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A cyclist passes a Spanish language mural featuring the popular Mexican television actor Chespirito, reading put on the mask on Marcelino s restaurant in East Austin.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Austin and Travis County leaders over what he says is local overstep of the governor s order removing a statewide mask mandate.
“I told Travis County & The City of Austin to comply with state mask law,” Paxton tweeted Thursday, a day after he threatened to sue. “They blew me off. So, once again, I’m dragging them to court.”
The lawsuit, which was filed in Travis County District Court on Thursday, names Austin Mayor Steve Adler, Travis County Judge Andy Brown and interim Medical Director and Health Authority Mark Escott as defendants.
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Last March, Madeline Lofland lost her job as a nanny. She wasn’t in a bad financial situation before the pandemic, and she was able to keep paying rent for months with her savings.
But the 23-year-old, who lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest Harris County, found that her unemployment check didn’t cover all of her rent, and when her savings ran out, she gave her landlord the form that’s supposed to stop her eviction under an order issued last September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an order that’s meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 by making sure people don’t become homeless or move into crowded shared housing.