Cases and Materials on Employment Law

Cases and Materials on Employment Law

Description

While growing out of our larger text on Employment Discrimination and Employment Law, this book is intended for use in a stand-alone, three-hour course in Employment Law. We cover the ranges of questions that a practitioner in employment law is likely to need to master in order competently to represent clients. This text addresses the threshold inquiry whether the relationship at issue is an employment relationship; the American rule on employment-at-will and its growing contract and tort exceptions; actions claiming retaliation under federal and state laws, and related claims for violation of public policy; privacy contentions in the workplace; minimum wage and overtime violations; employee benefits claims; post-employment restraints; and an integrated presentation of procedural systems and their coordination. In short, everything the employer lawyer should know, other than employment discrimination law and labor law, is treated in this book, and in a manner that develops the interrelationship of doctrines across bodies of law, and emphasizes issue of practical as well as theoretical import. The notes and questions that follow the principal readings are designed to expose the student to the emerging cutting-edge issues in the particular area. The note material is intended primarily as a teaching tool rather than as a vehicle for expressing our particular viewpoints. In this text, as in the first edition, we have not tried to reach complete consensus concerning the wording and the balance of each of our notes. Although each author offered close and extensive editing of all chapters, each chapter in this book was the primary responsibility of only one of the authors, and that author had the final authority to determine its contents.

Publication Date

2008

Edition

3

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