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The Employer's Legal Handbook

Fred S. Steingold

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The plain-English resource every employer, manager and HR professional needs.

New laws affect every aspect of being an employer -- from interviewing and hiring, to handling employee benefits to firing.

The most complete guide to your legal rights and responsibilities, The Employer's Legal Handbook shows you how to comply with the most recent workplace laws and regulations, run a safe and fair workplace and avoid lawsuits. Learn everything you need to know about:

Hiring: Understand the legal guidelines for hiring employees, writing job descriptions, conducting interviews and investigating applicants.

Smart personnel practices: What to include in employee personnel files, employee handbooks, performance reviews and references for former employees.

Wages & hours: Comply with federal and state overtime and minimum wage requirements.

Employee benefits: Learn the ins and outs of wage and hour laws, retirement plans and health insurance.

Workplace health and safety: Comply with OSHA requirements, and implement policies on smoking, drugs and alcohol abuse.

Discrimination: Prevent sexual harassment and discrimination based on age, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation and national origin.

Termination and layoffs: Avoid wrongful termination cases, conduct a final meeting and protect your business information when employees leave.

Laws affecting small business practices: Everything you need to know about the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, health and safety issues, employee testing and more.

The 8th edition updates the book's easy-to-use legal charts to provide your state's current employment laws. It also covers the latest developments, such as the Supreme Court's new definition of "retaliation," and why the number of claims against employers are going up.

The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems

Lisa Guerin

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An essential and basic reference 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the responsibilities of employers is to insure a safe and secure workplace. This necessitates dealing with employee accusations of harassment, discrimination, workplace violence, employee theft, and other challenges to the workplace security of employees -- whether the problem is perceived from emanating from management or other employees. Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing is resolving workplace issues, has written "The Essential Guide To Workplace Investigations: How To Handle Employee Complains & Problems", a 350-page, 'user friendly' instruction manual for managers, human resources professionals, and business owners, on investigating and resolving common workplace issues in a manner that is fair, effective, and in adherence to federal laws and state regulations. Enhanced with an accompanying CD-ROM with forms, sample polices, checklists, and other resources, "The Essential Guide To Workplace Investigations" is an informed and informative, offering step-by-step instructions on deciding whether or not to investigate a complain; taking immediate action if deemed necessary; selecting an investigator; planning the investigation; interviewing; gathering evidence; evaluating the evidence; taking appropriate action; documenting the investigation; and doing follow-up to insure future compliance. Simply stated, "The Essential Guide To Workplace Investigations" is an essential and basic reference for anyone charged with the responsibility of providing employees with a conflict-free work environment.

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Everything you need to investigate -- and resolve -- common workplace complaints and problems.

The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations is both a legal and practical book, packed with tips and strategies that will help you sort out your workplace problems, quickly and legally.

It offers a 10-step plan that you can use to resolve all kinds of workplace complaints, including:

*harassment
*discrimination
*workplace violence
*employee theft


The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations explains how to conduct an investigation that will stand up in court, helping you decide whether to investigate, do interviews, gather evidence, write an investigation report and make disciplinary decisions.

The book provides forms, checklists, sample policies, sample documentation and legal resources for all 50 states. All forms, as well as audio interviews and scenarios, are included on a CD-ROM.

Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws

Lisa Guerin, Amy Delpo

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The ultimate user-friendly Federal employment book!

The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws is a plain-English guide to the 20 most important federal laws dealing with employment issues. It provides all the information you need on each of the major federal employment laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and more.

Each chapter covers a separate law, giving readers a digest of the law's most important features. Topics covered include:

•which businesses must comply with the law
•what each law allows and prohibits
•where to find the text of the law
•important court decisions about each law
•practical tips to stay within the scope of the law
•which federal agency enforces each law
•resources for further research and information

A must-have resource for reference librarians, human resources professionals and business owners. Readers will find out what is allowed and prohibited, what businesses must comply, practical tips to stay within the scope of the law, which federal agencies enforce the law – and more.

Employment Law for Human Resource Practice (West Legal Studies in Business Academic Series)

David J. Walsh

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THE BEST BOOK YOU WILL EVER OWN! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has everything you need to know! It is clear, easy to read, and easy to understand. Great Case Studies and online supplemental material. If you are in the field, get it today!

The Critic's Choice 5 out of 5 stars.
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The book was top shelf and much cheaper than the bookstore. Delivery was prompt as promised. I've recommended your site to other students!

Very Thorough Book 4 out of 5 stars.
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I had purchased this book for a masters level class I was in. It is incredibly comprehensive and will be your one-stop source for employment law as it relates to Human Resource practices.

There are lots of case studies and discussion questions should you feel the text doens't challenge you enough.

The only drawback is that the text is two-tone; it could have done with being a tad more colorful. Having said that, that's all that kept it from being five stars.

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Do jobs have their own life cycles? You bet they do! EMPLOYMENT LAW AND HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE explains the system of human resources by focusing on the three basic stages of the employment life cycle: hiring, managing, and firing. From legal issues to methods and techniques for helping employees achieve their potential, EMPLOYMENT LAW AND HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE gives you all you need to succeed in class and contribute in real world employment settings.

American Bar Association Guide to Workplace Law, 2nd Edition: Everything Every Employer and Employee Needs to Know About the Law & Hiring, Firing, Discrimination, ... Bar Association Guide to Workplace Law)

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research 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I have found this book to be very helpful,bacause i am takeing a course in employment law.

Easy to read gold mine of information 5 out of 5 stars.
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I started doing some contract work as a recruiter and I needed a well written legal guide to employment law and this is it. A great reference and well as book you can read thru to give yourself a primer on employment law. A must for the small business owner who has employees

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Regardless of your occupation or title, or whether you an employee or small business owner, it’s essential to know your rights. From the nation's leading legal authority, this completely revised and updated edition of The American Bar Association Guide to Workplace Law provides helpful insight and information for employers and employees alike.

• Topics include hiring, firing, retirement, sexual harassment, maternity leave, workplace safety, and more—all explained in clear, non-technical language
• Thoroughly researched and updated by members of the American Bar Association, the nation’s most authoritative legal organization
• Features sidebars containing tips, advice, and key information

Dealing With Problem Employees: A Legal Guide

Amy Delpo, Lisa Guerin

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Take control of your problems and your workplace.

Do you have an employee who isn't performing, isn't producing or doesn't show up at all? Or does your workplace seem to be a breeding ground for all kinds of employee problems, large and small? No matter what the problem is, this book can help.

Dealing With Problem Employees provides proven techniques-- and more importantly, immediate fixes-- for dealing with the inevitable problem employee. Find out how to:

avoid hiring problem employees

recognize who is and isn't a problem employee

help problem employees get back on track

investigate problems and complaints

conduct performance evaluations

apply progressive discipline

suspend employees

fire employees

handle severances and references

institute effective policies and procedures

The 4th edition is completely updated to reflect the latest employment laws in your state. It also provides sample policies, forms and checklists to help you create a trouble-free workplace.

Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law

Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler

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A petite single mother, Lois Jenson was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of losing their jobs, the women kept their problems largely to themselves—until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to file a complaint against the company in 1984. Despite all of the obstacles the legal system threw at them, Lois and her fellow plaintiffs enlisted the aid of a dedicated team of lawyers and ultimately prevailed. Weaving personal stories with legal drama, Class Action shows how these terrifically brave women made history, although not without enormous personal cost. Told at a thriller’s pace, this is the story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States, a legal milestone that immeasurably improved working conditions for American women.

Every Employee's Guide to the Law

Lewin G. Iii Joel

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Review from an earlier edition 5 out of 5 stars.
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I purchased an older edition of this book back in the early 90's and it has been my "bible" on the job ever since! This book is in a straightforward, easy to understand format and contains invaluable information for anyone who works.

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The indispensable legal handbook–– for anyone looking for a job, holding a job, or leaving a job––has now been substantially revised and updated to include new laws and regulations. Whether you work in an office, a factory, or a small business, Every Employee’s Guide to the Law presents valuable information about such issues as:

The interview:
what questions can and can’t be asked

Discrimination:
up-to-date revisions to laws dealing with race, sex, age, handicap, national origin, and religion

Sexual harassment:
how to define it and how to document it

E-mail:
how your right to privacy is affected

Concise, comprehensive, and completely accessible, Every Employee's Guide to the Law explains everything you need to know.

A Manager's Guide to Employment Law: How to Protect Your Company and Yourself

Dana Muir

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Managers at all levels are constantly challenged to do more with fewer employees, to motivate diverse groups of people, and to face up to tough people problems in their workforces. An important key to managers' success is accomplishing these goals while protecting themselves and their companies from legal liability. Yet some in management tend to blame legal requirements for hindering progress toward solving problems. U.S. law, however, provides managers with broad discretion in many employment situations and in most cases helps ensure that managers perform their essential functions in a way that is fundamentally fair while still supporting company goals.

A Manager's Guide to Employment Law will help managers make day-to-day decisions on how best to manage their employees and handle issues of legal liability. Expert author Dana Muir identifies the subtle and unnecessary mistakes managers make that cause legal headaches and shows how becoming familiar with basic principles of employment law will enable them to develop an internal compass to help make the right decisions. Each chapter focuses on legal concepts of broad application in today's workplace, providing real examples of problems managers face and offering strategies for addressing those problems.

An Introduction to Labor Law (I L R Bulletin)

Michael Evan Gold

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An excellent concise summary of American labor law 4 out of 5 stars.
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This slim volume is an excellent, concise summary of American labor law. The labor law expert will learn nothing new from Gold's work but will nevertheless find it a handy quick reference. Gold's work is more of a reduced precis of a labor law hornbook, and as such, law students will find it to be an excellent summary of a labor law course. That is, labor law reduced to black letter law in clearly written sentences. Gold adeptly reduces the opaque National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to its basic components and clearly explains its major provisions. Keep in mind its title: An Introduction to Labor Law. Those seeking an in depth discussion of labor law will be disappointed and would do better to consult other work's such as Gorman's hornbook on labor law, but those seeking a basic introduction, or a concise summary of the NLRA will find this an invaluable source. Excellent as a review for a labor law final examination.

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Michael Evan Gold has completely revised his classic explanation of the protection to which workers are entitled under the National Labor Relations Act. He includes discussion of such fundamental topics as organizing and elections, the duty to bargain, economic weapons available to workers, and enforcement of labor contracts. "An excellent review of labor law as it stands today".--BOOKLIST.