Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations, 3rd Edition

Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations, 3E is organized around the rights and duties that flow between parties in an employment relationship. Cases, detailed discussion of the facts, and accessible notes and questions examine the laws that are intended to balance the competing interests and contractual obligations between employer and employee. Problem exercises encourage students to think creatively about how best to protect the interests of workers or employers. Practitioner exercises in planning, drafting, advising, and negotiating develop transactional lawyering skills.

Key Features:

• Explores the hottest topics in employment law, including:
  • the rise  of social media
  • changing entity structures and the effect on workers
  • innovations in the use of surveillance and data in workplace oversight
  • emergent conflicts over employee privacy rights
  • new frontiers in antidiscrimination law
  • innovations in workplace risk management
• Incorporates new cases throughout, most notably in the highly litigated areas of:
  • antidiscrimination law
  • whistleblower protections
  • noncompetition, employee privacy
  • speech in the public workplace
  • wage and hour violations
  • the growing use of mandatory arbitration clauses
  • the changes resulting from the Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act
• Provides updates on important statutory developments in various areas, including workplace privacy, whistleblower protections, and wage and hour regulation
• Adds new problems and exercises that prompt students to grapple with application of the law in contemporary real world settings