Employment Relationships: Law & Practice (1-year Online Subscription)

Employment Relationships: Law & Practice helps professionals prevent, prosecute, or defend lawsuits with expert guidance. It analyzes the state and federal employment laws and recent trends in case law affecting the employment relationship. Topics covered include: federal discrimination law, including ADEA, ADA, the Equal Pay Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; sexual harassment, including same-sex harassment; severance pay, golden parachutes and COBRA; employee's fiduciary duties to his employer; employee privacy, with discussions of privacy issues relating to employee e-mail and computer files; tort actions, such as defamation, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing and infliction of emotional distress. Practice pointers throughout this insightful resource provide practical advice from the authors. Employment relationships are covered in three vital ways: complying with federal and state regulation, litigating successfully, and drafting legally sound documents.

Employment Relationships has been updated to include:

• U.S. Supreme Court case where the Court concluded that states and their political subdivisions are “employers” covered by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, regardless of whether they had at least 20 employees

• National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB’s) decision in SuperShuttle DFW that swings the classification analysis back to its earlier emphasis on the employer’s right to control and less so on the economic realities analysis stressed by the Obama-era Board

• The U.S. Supreme Court's grant of a petition for writ of certiorari to consider whether Title VII’s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional or only a claim processing rule that may be subject to waiver, forfeiture, or other equitable defenses

• Administrative procedures and relief under the principal federal employment discrimination statutes

• The continuing saga of the NLRB’s efforts to get the “joint employer” rule correct and approved by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

• Updates to employee handbooks to include policies on “Bring Your Own Device” and on bringing guns to work

•  A new California appellate court decision that suggests that non-solicitation agreements may be unenforceable in California

• A federal appellate court decision holding that an employer can recover attorneys’ fees for enforcement of a non-compete agreement even though there was no final determination of former employees’ liability under the agreement

• Enforceability of non-compete provisions that were agreed to by former employees through “click-wrap” acceptance

• Brief discussion of recent cases in which a state court noted splits among the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals on the extent of constitutional protection for off-duty romantic relationships in government employment