Labor and Employment Settlements and Negotiations is an authoritative, insider's perspective on key strategies for representing and advising both individuals and organizations involved in legal issues surrounding the workplace. Featuring partners from some of the nation's leading firms, these experts guide the reader through the gamut of legal issues that can arise in this vast area, such as: structuring employment contracts and termination terms; dealing with discrimination, harassment, and sensitive office relationships; and understanding the legal aspects of employee benefits. These top lawyers give solid advice for everything from non-compete contracts to workers? unions, covering proper hiring procedures, privacy rights, and compensation issues. The laws profiled in this volume include the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as well as legislation affecting proper workplace conduct and employees? rights.

Not all industrial disputes are about claims for better conditions than those to which the workers may already be entitled. A large proportion are so-called "grievance disputes", over difficulties in the application of labour legislation, collective agreements or individual contracts of employment. Disputes over the application of collective agreements can often be most easily settled if labour and management agree to submit them to arbitration by an independent, impartial outsider. The present guide, which is a companion volume to Conciliation in industrial disputes published by the ILO in 19.