Texas Employment Law Update

• Texas Employees Can Reject Suitable Work and Maintain Unemployment Benefits

  A day after reporting that Texas employees rejecting a return to suitable work for fear of contracting COVID-19 could lose unemployment benefits, Govenor Abbott announced that the TWC has promulgated rules allowing employees to continue receipt of benefits even if rejecting a return to suitable work. According to the Governor’s press release: Each unemployment insurance...

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