Best Labor & Employment Law Books
Here you will get Best Labor & Employment Law Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Gig Workers of All Types
Author: by Stephen Fishman J.D.
NOLO
English
544 pages
The all-in-one legal and tax resource every independent contractor and gig worker needs Whether you’re starting a full-scale consulting business or booking gigs on the side, Working for Yourself provides all the legal and tax information you need in one place.
This eleventh edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect all the changes under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Actchanges that are largely beneficial to the self-employed. This excellent, well-organized reference will also show you how to: decide the best form for your business (sole proprietor, LLC, or other) make sure you’re paid in full and on time pay estimated taxes and avoid trouble with the IRS take advantage of all available tax deductions, including the 20% pass-through tax deduction for business owners choose health, property, and other kinds of insurance keep accurate records in case you get audited, and write legally binding contracts and letter agreements.
If you’re tired of doing endless web searches for the information you need to start and run your business, this easy-to-use and authoritative resource is for you.
2. 101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination
Author: by Paul Falcone
0814438555
AMACOM Books
English
Whether you’re addressing an initial infraction or handling termination-worthy transgressions, you need to be 100 percent confident that every employee encounter is clear, fair, and most importantly, legal. Thankfully, HR expert Paul Falcone has provided this wide-ranging resource that explains in detail the disciplinary process and provides ready-to-use documents that eliminate stress and second-guessing about what to do and say.
Revised to reflect the latest developments in employment law, the third edition of 101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems includes expertly crafted, easily customizable write-ups that address: sexual harassment, absenteeism, insubordination, drug or alcohol abuse, substandard work, email and phone misuse, teamwork issues, managerial misconduct, confidentiality breaches, social media abuse, and more!
With each sample document also including a performance improvement plan, outcomes and consequences, and a section of employee rebuttal, it’s easy to see why over 100,000 copies have already been sold, making life for managers and HR personnel significantly easier when it comes to addressing employee performance issues.
3. Represent Yourself in Court: Prepare & Try a Winning Civil Case
Author: by Paul Bergman JD
NOLO
English
600 pages
How to prepare and present a winning civil court case Many disputes are too big for small claims court but too small to justify a lawyer’s fee. Fortunately, if you’re willing to learn the courtroom ropes, you can successfully handle your own case from start to finish.
Represent Yourself in Court breaks the pretrial and trial process down into easy-to-understand steps. Armed with these clear and thorough instructions, you’ll be well prepared to: draft and file court papers get help from an attorney or legal coach obtain and prepare your evidence, including social media postings handle depositions line up, prepare, and examine witnesses present an opening statement make and respond to objections pick a jury if necessary, and deal with the court clerk and judge Whether you’re a plaintiff or a defendant, this book will help you handle a bankruptcy, divorce, landlord-tenant dispute, breach of contract case, small business disputeor any other civil lawsuit.
The 10th edition is completely updated to include the latest rules and court procedures.
4. California Employment Law: An Employer's Guide: Revised & Updated for 2021
Author: by James McDonald
English
304 pages
1586446975
It is often said that it is impossible for an employer to fully comply with all of California’s employment laws. They are just too numerous, too complicated and too often changing and seldom for the better. There are so many traps for the unwary, but the stakes of getting it wrong are quite high for California employers.
A simple mistake can lead to a seven-figure jury verdict or a class action lawsuit. CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT LAW: AN EMPLOYER’S GUIDE is the go-to guide for anyone who must contend with employment law in California as part of their day-to-day work, including employers based outside of California who have employees working in the state.
This valuable reference is updated to address new developments in 2020, including: – Amendments to the California Family Rights Act extending coverage to employers of five or more employees and permitting employees to take leave to care for a broader range of relatives.
New and more extensive exceptions to the Dynamex ruling and AB 5 regarding independent contractors. The ballot initiative allowing certain gig economy workers to remain independent contractors.
5. Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws, The
Author: by Lisa Guerin J.D.
NOLO
English
512 pages
Packed with cutting-edge cases and hands-on applications, Walsh’s EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE, 6E explains the major issues and rules of employment law in understandable terms. You learn how laws impact your career, as a manager or employee. The text addresses legal issues for each stage of employment, from hiring and managing to firing.
Current news stories, hypothetical situations, and real cases help you understand how legal concepts apply to the actual workplace. Each chapter ends with a summary of practical advice for managers. Coverage addresses the most important topics of employment law including the latest legislation, regulations and case law.
You learn how to prevent discrimination and harassment, accommodate disabled employees, provide family and medical leave, comply with wage and hour laws, and avoid wrongful terminations and other common legal issues.
7. Employment Law, Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series)
Author: by Mark Rothstein
Foundation Press
English
1318 pages
Hardbound – New, hardbound print book.
8. Employer's Legal Handbook, The: How to Manage Your Employees & Workplace
Author: by Fred S. Steingold
NOLO
English
496 pages
Handle employment decisions legally and effectivelyfrom hiring to firing Employment laws change often. Staying on top of them is essential to running an efficient, fair workplaceand 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 and other employee benefits employee taxes and payroll family and medical leave employee privacy illegal harassment and discrimination terminations, downsizing and layoffs.
The 14th edition provides updated 50-state legal information and explains the latest developments in employment law, including laws banning employers from asking about an applicant’s criminal history; employee benefit changes resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; and employer drug policies in states that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana for medical or recreational use.
9. A History of America in Ten Strikes
Author: by Erik Loomis
The New Press
English
320 pages
An “entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued” (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to change the balance of power in America A Kirkus Reviews best book of 2018, A History of America in Ten Strikespublished in the wake of the teachers’ strike that swept the country in 2018challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers.
Labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history in “chapters [that] are self-contained enough to be used on their own in union trainings or reading groups” (Labor Notes), and adds an appendix detailing the 150 most important strikes in American history.
These labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment, where American workers are still fighting for basic rights like a livable minimum wage. From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, “what Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement, despite its many failures and compromises, has always been to make everyday life more democratic” (The New Republic).
10. Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health
Author: by Mark A. Friend
Bernan Press
English
616 pages
The seventh edition of this popular handbook provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the occupational safety and health field and the issues safety professionals face today, and does so in an accessible and engaging manner. An excellent introductory reference for both students and professionals, Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health provides practical information on technology, management, and regulatory compliance issues, covering crucial topics like organizing, staffing, directing, and evaluating occupational safety programs and procedures.
All major occupational safety and health topics are addressed in this comprehensive volume, including safety-related laws and regulations, hazardous materials, workplace violence, the threat of terrorism, and OSHA’s recordkeeping standard. This new edition has been revised and updated throughout to include new information on a variety of topics.
The book includes a handy directory of resources such as safety and health associations, First Responder organizations, and state and federal agencies. The latest edition of this go-to reference work reflects the legal and cultural climate of safety and health in an easily comprehensible and well-organized format, giving readers a wealth of occupational safety and health information right at their fingertips.
11. Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations (Aspen Casebook)
Author: by Timothy P. Glynn
Wolters Kluwer
English
1104 pages
Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations, Fourth Edition is organized around the rights and duties that flow between parties in an employment relationship. Through cases, detailed discussion of the facts, and accessible notes and questions, this book examines the laws that are intended to balance the competing interests and contractual obligations between employer and employee.
The note materials also encourage students to think critically and creatively about how best to protect the interests of workers or employers. Practitioner exercises in planning, drafting, advising, and negotiating develop transactional lawyering skills. New to the Fourth Edition: Important Supreme Court and lower court cases in key areas including the scope of employment, whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections, anti-discrimination laws, disability and other accommodations, noncompetition agreements, and mandatory arbitration clauses Addition of cases and note materials on hot topics including employment protections in the gig economy, workplace speech protections in a time of deep social and political conflict, the workplace implications of AI and other technologies, emergent privacy and cyber security issues, and innovations in accommodating workers lives Updated problems and exercises Streamlined case and note editing Professors and students will benefit from: Comprehensive and deep coverage of key areas of workplace regulation Practical exercises in each chapter Note materials designed to provide both context and knowledge of emergent legal and social science scholarship Thematic consistency across chapters providing a unifying framework for the discussion of disparate topic areas
12. Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations, The: A Step-By-Step Guide to Handling Employee Complaints & Problems
Author: by Lisa Guerin J.D.
NOLO
English
448 pages
Learn how to conduct a full and fair workplace investigation Workplace complaints carry serious legal and financial risks to a company, so it’s essential to act fast when you receive an employee complaint. But an ineffective or poorly handled investigation can land your company in even more trouble than not performing one at all.
In the era of #MeToo, it’s more important than ever to ensure your investigation is complete, impartial, and timely. The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations shows you how to legally and successfully investigate and resolve any type of complaint or problem.
It covers common workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, violence, drug and alcohol use, and employee theft. The book guides you through each step of an effective investigation, including: deciding whether to investigate taking immediate action, if necessary choosing an investigator planning the investigation interviewing witnesses gathering and evaluating the evidence taking action documenting the investigation, and following up.
13. Employment Law: A Guide to Hiring, Managing, and Firing for Employers and Employees (Aspen Paralegal)
Author: by Lori B. Rassas
Wolters Kluwer
English
656 pages
Employment Law: A Guide to Hiring, Managing, and Firing for Employers and Employees, Fourth Edition is a practical text for undergraduate, graduate, and paralegal employment law, human resources, and business school courses. This unique book approaches each area from the perspective of both employees and employers.
The balanced approach is organized to track the employer-employee relationship focusing on day-to-day hiring, managing, and firing practices. After an overview of discrimination laws and a discussion of different types of employment relationships the text moves chronologically from the recruitment of candidates through all aspects of employment to the conclusion of the employment relationship.
Each chapter begins with clear chapter objectives. A list of key terms ends the chapter followed by basic questions to ensure students master the key concepts and fact patterns, which test student s ability to apply the concepts to workplace matters.
These fact-based scenarios promote critical thinking and develop analytical skills. New to the Fourth Edition: New coverage of the balancing of employer and employee interests in regard to political expression and social media use Expanded discussion of employer and employee rights with respect to medical marijuana Focus on the heightened attention paid to policies related to workplace romances due to the #MeToo movement Enhancement of the materials related to the prohibition of sex discrimination and compensation discrimination materials, including the comparing and contrasting of employee rights under Title VII and the Equal Pay Act Introduction of Check it out!
14. Employment Law for Business
Author: by Dawn Bennett-Alexander
McGraw-Hill Education
English
976 pages
This book examines the federal statutory protection against employment discrimination, highlighting the themes of workplace equality that are embodied in the civil rights laws. Like prior editions, this edition features many recent cases, including Bostock v. Clayton County, new developments in the law and a substantial revision on the ADA and the materials relating to sex discrimination.
The book also includes diverse contemporary scholarship drawn from critical race theory, feminist legal theory, history, social science, and law and economics, among other disciplines. The authors’ extensive materials framing the cases are designed to prepare students thoroughly for practice in this rapidly changing field of law.
