A guide to employment law. One of the most rapidly evolving areas of law involves individual employment rights. Individual employment rights has no clearly defined boundary. It encompasses a multitude of employment statutes and court decisions. It finds its support in constitutional law and has developed as part of specialized employment law areas involving record keeping and disclosure, labor relations, health and safety, labor standards, fair employment practices. This book consolidates these fragmented individual employment rights into a centralized reference source.

This guide tells you how to avoid costly employment lawsuits, fines, and settlements resulting from hiring and the employment relationship. In explicit language, the author: -- reviews contract rights, privacy, defamation, and negligence -- and how they apply to daily personnel functions -- gives practical advice for responding to court cases that greatly expand employees' rights -- addresses volatile areas including sexual harassment, employee handbooks, surveillance, HIV issues, and more -- includes text of the key federal and state laws you must follow

The principles, procedures, and policies applicable to hiring are reviewed by this book to assist in minimizing litigation risks for employers and acquainting employees with these employer procedures to protect their disclosures of non-job-related information. Areas covered include the hiring process, pre-employment screening fundamentals, data verification, and federal and state statutes affecting the hiring process.

With coverage of the A to Z topics concerning security managers, this volume describes the basics of each topic and the information needed to apply this knowledge to any reader's job, business, or industry. In addition, the book's sample policies, procedures, guides, forms, checklists and drawings can be easily converted for a security manager's use.