The SHRM Essential Guide to Employment Law A Handbook for HR Professionals, Managers, Businesses, and Organizations

The SHRM Essential Guide to Employment Lawis your One-Stop Legal Reference to Employment Law. It simple, straightforward language on everything HR professionals, employers, and small business owners need to know about their relationship with their employees in order to comply with the law and protect thems elves and their business from legal action.Covering more than 200 workplace law topics, the Guide provides an overview of U.S. workplace laws, regulations, and court decisions that employers, large or small, are likely to face, as well as what pitfalls to anticipate and when to seek professional advice. Each chapter offers general principles, highlights key issues, and provides specific examples and suggestions to help make the employer-employee relationship run more smoothly.

Charles Fleischer is  a member of the law firm Oppenheimer, Fleischer & Quiggle, P.C., of Bethesda, Maryland. Fleischer is the author of Employer's Rights (Sourcebooks, 2004), The Complete Hiring and Firing Handbook (Sourcebooks, 2005), HR for Small Business, 2nd Ed. (Sourcebooks, 2009), Will the Internet Abrogate Territorial Limits on Personal Jurisdiction?, 33 Tort & Ins. Law J. 107 (1997), Validity and Effect of Will-Not-Reapply Covenants in Employment Discrimination Settlement Agreements, 23 Labor Lawyer 151 (2007), and the "Employment Torts" chapter of the Maryland Employment Law Deskbook (MSBA 2014). He is a gradutae of George Washington University Law School.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: The Employment Relationship
CHAPTER 2: The Hiring Process
CHAPTER 3: Evaluations and Discipline
CHAPTER 4: Terminating the Relationship
CHAPTER 5: Wage and Hour Requirements
CHAPTER 6: Wage Attachments
CHAPTER 7: Tax Considerations
CHAPTER 8: Leave Policies
CHAPTER 9: Deferred Compensation and ERISA
CHAPTER 10: Group Health and Benefit Plans
CHAPTER 11: Workers’ Compensation
CHAPTER 12: Unemployment Insurance
CHAPTER 13: Workplace Safety
CHAPTER 14: Discrimination in General
CHAPTER 15: Gender Discrimination
CHAPTER 16: Age Discrimination
CHAPTER 17: Persons with Disabilities
CHAPTER 18: Employee Privacy
CHAPTER 19: Employee Loyalty
CHAPTER 20: Alternative Work Arrangements
CHAPTER 21: Foreign Workers
CHAPTER 22: Government Contractors
CHAPTER 23: Nonprofit Organizations
CHAPTER 24: Unions and Labor Relations