Legal Rights
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Getting Hired: Legal Do's and Dont's
What does the law have to do with getting a job? Probably more than you may think.
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| Legal Rights During the Hiring Process Job applicants have legal rights even before they become employees. Under federal law, an employer cannot illegally discriminate in its hiring process based on a job applicant's race, national origin, gender, pregnancy, age, disability, or religion. State and local laws may specify additional protected classes based on factors such as the sexual orientation of a job applicant. Employers must abide by anti-discrimination laws at each stage of the hiring process, from placing a job ad, to interviewing, to the final selection of the candidate to be hired. |
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. |
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Job Rights & Survival Strategies: A Handbook for Terminated Employees 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. |
| Don't Embellish or Lie During the Application
Process Many applicants try to increase their chances of landing a job by embellishing -- or downright lying about -- their experience or credentials. Although this may help them get the job, it is a risky strategy for a number of reasons. |
| Drug Testing During Hiring Many private and public employers attempt to test prospective employees (and employees already on staff) for drug and alcohol use. Although increasing in popularity among employers, such tests are not always legal. The following discussion provides information on when (and whether) a drug test may be used in the pre-employment phase. |
| Running Background Checks You must respect applicants' privacy rights when conducting background checks. |
| 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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