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Workers' Compensation and Employee Protection Laws in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Jack B. Hood, Benjamin A., Jr. Hardy, Harold S., Jr. Lewis

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Alcohol, Drugs, and Arbitration: An Analysis of Fifty-Nine Arbitration Cases

Robert Coulson, Mitchell D. Goldberg

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Employee Dismissal Law and Practice (Employment Law Library)

Henry H. Perritt

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Implementing Sexual Harassment Policy: Challenges for the Public Sector Workplace

Laura A. Reese, Karen E. Lindenberg

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Widespread sexual harassment in the public sector makes implementing sexual harassment policy a decidedly necessary task. In this book, the authors focus on the implementation of policy in public sector organizations using an analysis of case studies and survey data. The authors identify four major challenges to implementing sexual harassment policies and examine each starting with a description and concluding with specific recommendations for overcoming the challenges in policy making.

Workers' Compensation Law

Neal R. Bevans

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Workers’ Compensation Law provides an in-depth look at the day-to-day practice of this field while addressing theoretical aspects that form a critical foundation for this branch of law. Reviews how a worker's compensation case begins and explains activities involved in those cases, such as drafting petitions, presenting cases to an administrative law judge, and bringing an appeal. The theoretical basis of the material is laid out in easy to understand and enjoyable format reinforced with practical real-life examples. Although written with paralegal-specific information, the content includes information vital to anyone dealing with Workers’ Compensation issues.

Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States

Karen Orren

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The NEW DEAL for Labor 5 out of 5 stars.
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Published in 1992, this thoroughly researched history of worker-employer relations in America, from the colonial era to the New Deal, remains the best and clearest analysis of the importance of labor in the fulfillment of liberal democracy. Dense with legalisms and references to state and federal court decisions, "Belated Feudalism" is not easy reading, but no other book delineates so clearly the necessary changes in the laws that regulated unionization of workers and terms of labor contracts which were, and still are, the cornerstone of New Deal reform. It was FDR's struggle with the Supreme Court - the last guardians of feudalism, of master-servant relations - that tested America's committment to its founders' liberalism. It was FDR's victory in the Supreme Court in the case of N.L.R.B. v. Jones & Laughlin Steel that "signaled official repudiation of common-law governance in labor realtions." Recognizing that such dramatic reversal of ancient injustices was as central to FDR's New Deal as mere financial recovery, it's obvious that the New Deal achieved a huge part of its objectives.

Students of labor history in the USA inevitably begin by examining the master-apprentice relationship that the English colonists brought to the New World as part of the Common Law. Apprentices were hardly better off than indentured servants, ruled by the whims of their guild and their master, essentially unable to sell their labor in a free market. Almost with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, that paternalistic system began to falter. The availability of land, the quickening pace of manufacturing, the fluidity of America society all contributed to the change from apprentice to employees for wages. The history lesson then turns to the early efforts at worker solidarity, experiments in labor organization, labor politics in the decades from 1820 to the Civil War, then the struggles of labor during the Gilded Age - from guild to gild!

By examining state court records and other legal sources, Karen Orren establishes authoritatively that adaptations in the common law practice of master-servant relations lagged deliberately far behind the changes in the economy as a whole. Once any labor issue reached the pre-New Deal courts, the concepts of the 18th Century weighed heavily in favor of Employers' rights and Workers' lack thereof. Such was the situation in the Supreme Court's decision against FDR in the case of Shechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, one of the chief obstacles to reform that stung Roosevelt into his attempt to "pack" the Court. That battle FDR lost at considerable cost, but the greater battle to modernize the legal structures of labor organization and contract negotiation was won despite the stubborn heel-dragging of employers and their representatives.

Of course there would be reaction - mostly obviously in Taft-Hartley. One might also point to the sad state of labor in America since the union-busting actions of Ronald Reagan. In the course of history, what goes up may well come down. The New Deal gains in marketplace freedoms for workers, which Orren celebrates as the maturation of liberal democracy, still need to be defined and defended from paternalistic semi-feudal employers - now chiefly corporate - and their minions in the Republican Party.

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Contrary to the idea that the United States was liberal from its inception, Orren argues that both capitalism and constitutionalism proceeded upon a remnant of ancient feudalism. This was the common law of master and servant, embedded in the judiciary, cutting off the fundamental area of labor governance from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was brought on through the industrial actions of trade unions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was established with the institutions of collective bargaining under the New Deal. The book represents a reinterpertation of American political development and of the role of the labor movement as a creator of liberalism, not a spoiler of socialism.

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)

Robert J. Steinfeld

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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the use of sanctions to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever available to manage their labor costs and supply. Modern free wage labor only came into being late in the nineteenth century, as a result of reform legislation that restricted the contract remedies employers could legally use.

ERISA REGULATIONS, 2006 (Erisa Regulations)

Sharon F. Fountain

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Get all the rules and regulations on employee benefits issued by federal agencies in one comprehensive volume. The full text of proposed and final regulations through June 30, 2006, from the Department of Labor, the Treasury Department, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and other agencies that affect benefit plans are included in ERISA Regulations, 2006 Edition.

Health Care Labor Law: Labor Relations, Collective Bargaining, Arbitration, Eec..

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Understanding the Federal Wage & Hour Laws: What Employers Must Know about the FLSA and Its Overtime Regulations

LLP Seyfarth Shaw

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Written for business and human resource professionals, the guide to regulating overtime covers all of the latest changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which determines whether an employee does or does not receive overtime pay. The 2004 revision of the law marked the first update of overtime regulations to the FLSA in more than 50 years and includes changes to minimum wage, overtime requirements, and white-collar exemption regulations, all of which are addressed in this book. In addition to federal regulations, overtime exemption standards in 18 states that differ from federal regulations are outlined in detail.

In 2004, the Department of Labor issued new overtime regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Understanding the Federal Wage & Hour Laws is an up-to-date, authoritative reference that explains the current regulations. Not only does the book cover the continuing and new regulations, it helps you meet the challenge of multi-tiered compliance required by different state and federal regulations.

Written for HR professionals, this book succinctly but thoroughly covers all aspects of the FLSA, including:
- Who is covered?
- Hours worked
- Overtime requirements
- Minimum wage
- Child labor laws
- Recordkeeping requirements
- Wage-hour audit
- Questions about the wage-hour investigation
- Consequences of FLSA violations