Handle employment decisions with confidence, whether your employees are onsite or remote Employment laws change often. Staying on top of them is essential to running an efficient, fair workplace—and heading off expensive lawsuits. Use this must-have desk reference to find answers to workplace questions, quickly and easily. The Employer’s Legal Handbook is the go-to guide for business owners and managers. It covers the most common and current employment law issues you need to know about, including • applications, interviews, and hiring • must-have personnel policies • wage and hour laws • employee discipline and performance reviews • health insurance and other employee benefits • employee taxes and payroll • family and medical leave • employee privacy • illegal harassment and discrimination, and • terminations, downsizing, and layoffs. The 16th edition provides updated 50-state legal information and explains the latest developments in employment law, including the rise of the remote workforce.

An all-in-one reference to the important employment laws that every employer and HR pro needs to know.

Handle employment decisions legally and effectively—from hiring to firing Employment laws change often. Staying on top of them is essential to running an efficient, fair workplace—and heading off expensive lawsuits. Use this must-have desk reference to find answers to workplace questions, quickly and easily. The Employer’s Legal Handbook is the go-to guide for business owners and managers. It covers the most common and current employment law issues you need to know about, including: applications, interviews, and hiring must-have personnel policies wage and hour laws employee discipline and performance reviews health care insurance and other employee benefits employee taxes and payroll family and medical leave employee privacy illegal harassment and discrimination terminations, downsizing, and layoffs. The 15th edition provides updated 50-state legal information and explains the latest developments in employment law, including the rise of the remote workforce and other issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"An A-Z reference encyclopedia, with more than 200 entries defining and explaining employment and labor law topics. The entries combine a summary of the law with real life case references, pop culture references, and statistics and trends"--Provided by publisher.

"Text for undergraduate, graduate, human resources, and paralegal courses on employment law"--

Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today's workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; and how, when union jobs vanish, the wage premium also vanishes. At the same time, the book offers a range of solutions, from the radical, such as a complete overhaul of federal labor law, to the incremental, including reforms that could be undertaken by federal agencies on their own.

Considers the practical realities of applying the law on a day-to-day basis and answers all the common questions, covering: what harrassment is and how to stop it, when and how discrimination occurs, how to conduct training, how to handle employee complaints, and much more. Original.