Browse 6 articles tagged with Texas.
Hiring your first employee in Texas creates a sequence of legal and tax obligations that need to happen in a specific order. Most employers miss one or more, and the missed obliga…
Starting an LLC with your spouse in Texas creates a question that often gets glossed over in national guides: how will the IRS tax the business, and how do you make sure your tax…
No Texas law requires you to have an employee handbook. That’s true and also somewhat beside the point. What a handbook does is answer the questions employees will have, set the e…
A notice from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) telling you an employee has filed a wage claim requires an immediate response, not because it’s an emergency, but because Texas…
Misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor exposes your Texas business to back wages, unpaid overtime, unpaid payroll taxes (FICA, FUTA, and Texas UI), and TWC penalt…
Texas is an at-will employment state. That means you can terminate an employee for any reason or no reason, as long as the reason isn’t an illegal one. What it doesn’t mean is tha…