Legal Rights in the Workplace

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Your Rights in the Workplace An easy-to-read guide to the laws that protect you in the workplace!  Your Rights in the Workplace is the most complete guide to workplace laws ever published -- it's essential to any one who is an employees.  In plain English, Your Rights in the Workplace covers everything from hiring and getting paid through privacy and firing.

Employer Discrimination Discrimination by an employer is a heavily regulated subject, and when hiring an employee there are a host of rules and regulations that an employer can run afoul of at both the federal and state level.  Many of these laws apply to businesses with more than fifteen people, but some (such as the Equal Pay Act) apply to virtually all businesses,  and generally apply to private as well as government employers.  Here is an overview of the regulatory framework regarding discrimination by an employer.

Job Rights & Survival Strategies: A Handbook for Terminated Employees A valuable self-help guide for the newly unemployed and those who want to be prepared when and if "the axe falls."  Now you can arm yourself with the latest expert advice about legal options and job loss coping methods. This valuable book was written by experienced lawyers Paul H. Tobias and Susan Sauter. In its eighteen chapters you'll discover information you cant' afford to miss. With tens of thousands of people being laid off every year, you need to know your employee rights. Chapters cover such diverse topics as how to take action against discrimination, how to deal with the judicial and administrative systems, and how to copewith the financial and emotional burdens caused by job loss.

Employment Law - Guide to Employment and Labor Law Employment Law is a broad area including all areas of the employer/employee relationship except the negotiation process covered by labor law and collective bargaining. Many employment laws (e.g., minimum wage regulations, employment discrimination, workers' compensation, workplace safety, Whistleblower & Qui Tam) were enacted as protective labor legislation. Other employment laws take the form of public insurance, such as unemployment compensation.

Ten Things to Think About: Employment Contract Provisions Employment contracts take many different forms. All employees at a company may be asked to sign the same form contract, or each employee may have a contract with the employer that is applicable just to his or her employment agreement. An employer and an employee may simply have an oral agreement regarding the kind of work the employee will do, for how long, and at what rate of pay. Sometimes there is no written or oral agreement but the behavior of the employer and the employee can be viewed as an implied employment contract.

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