Dean Player and Professor Malin combine over sixty years of teaching experience to present unique user friendly materials for teaching (and learning)... employment discrimination law. The organization begins with relatively uncomplicated general and universal principles, such as defining the classes protected by the law and the concept of discrimination and leave for later digestion the complex problems of proving violations. The materials are of teachable length. While leading cases have not been ignored, the materials include engaging cases that focus on issues of contemporary interest.

Integrating cases, theory, and commentary, this up-to-date book provides readers with a detailed discussion of the important issues in employment... discrimination law. It gives learners at all levels access to the key cases and statutes in this area, to useful hypotheticals, and to some of the latest thinking on these topics. Chapter topics focus on the issues that matter most in the field today—tracking the birth of modern employment discrimination law, its development, state employment discrimination laws, and the transformative or non-transformative effect of employment discrimination law. For lawyers, paralegals, corporate human resource departments, government agencies, and other government officials.

Like all the other volumes in the Stories collection, this book provides students with a three dimensional picture of the most important cases that are... addressed in nearly every employment discrimination casebook and course. These stories give the students and faculty members a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural background of the cases and an insight into their long term impact on the development of employment discrimination law.

See the principles of law through real-world applications.  Moran approaches employment law with a focus on discrimination and employment regulation,... presenting the principles of law in a logical succession and illustrating those principles with engaging real-world applications. The fifth edition reflects the latest changes in employment law regarding the parameters of selection, discrimination, privacy, and termination.

Employment Law: A Guide to Hiring, Managing, and Firing for Employers and Employees offers a coherent overview that follows the sequence of day-to-day... events from job creation to recruitment, including compensation and benefits, leave entitlements, and performance management, all the way to the conclusion of the employment relationship. This practical text features: an accessible and informative introduction to discrimination law a practical and chronological survey of the employment relationship: identifying a hiring need, recruitment, the application and interview process, compensation and benefits, performance assessment, and the conclusion of the employment relationship a clear and accessible explication of basic legal concepts and principles engaging hypothetical scenarios throughout the text that illustrate realistic legal issues that arise in the employment relationship empirical data and guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) a skillfully crafted design for learning that includes chapter overviews, lists of learning objectives, highlighted key terms, and discussion questions a detailed Instructor's Manual with sample syllabi and test bank With complete coverage of discrimination topics and a practice-based approach, Employment Law: A Guide to Hiring, Managing, and Firing for Employers and Employees educates the reader with a wealth of context and insight. Lori B. Rassas, Esq., has worked as an employment and labor attorney for more than a decade. She received an LL.M. in Labor and Employment Law from New York University Law School, a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, and a B.A. from Tufts University. Throughout her career she has provided extensive guidance and counsel on all phases of the employment process to both employers and employees. She has developed a pragmatic approach to the navigation of employment relationships that is derived from her experience working to resolve complex legal issues that have arisen on both sides of the bargaining table

Employment law continues to be an exciting and fast-moving area of law, in both the courts and academia. Throughout this well-received book, the authors... address the proper roles of economic incentives and legal regulations in achieving desirable outcomes in the workplace, encouraging students to question common assumptions underlying authority in the workplace, discuss simple rules and effective rules and their contrast, and examine the varied legal responses to problems in the workplace. Adaptable to a three- or four-hour course, this casebook contains few internal cross-references so that chapters can be taught out of sequence without damage to the overall integrity of the course. The Fourth Edition of Employment Law: Cases and Materials includes a new chapter on leave time, a revamped section on enforcement, and reflects changes necessitated by new developments in employment law. In the area of new developments, the Fourth Edition includes the Desert Palace and Jesperson decisions, considers Enron and the Pension Protection Act of 2006, and new materials on whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Employment law continues to be an exciting and fast-moving area of law, in both the courts and academia. Throughout this well-received book, the authors... address the proper roles of economic incentives and legal regulations in achieving desirable outcomes in the workplace, encouraging students to question common assumptions underlying authority in the workplace, discuss simple rules and effective rules and their contrast, and examine the varied legal responses to problems in the workplace. Adaptable to a three- or four-hour course, this casebook contains few internal cross-references so that chapters can be taught out of sequence without damage to the overall integrity of the course. The Fifth Edition of Employment Law: Cases and Materials includes the following: •   Coverage of employment law implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. •   New and expanded coverage of international dismissal standards. •   Recent cases and developments on employee privacy, including City of Ontario v. Quon. •   New developments in employment discrimination, including Ricci and recent cases under the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. •   Comprehensive coverage of dismissal standards in private and public sector, including Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture. •   Integration of the new Restatement of Employment Law into notes and questions •   New coverage of the California apportionment of workers' compensation benefits when the disability results from work-related and non-work-related causes [Brodie v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Bd.] •   Expanded review of multiple penalties under the OSHAct when the employer exposes a number of employees to a hazard [National Association of Home Builders v. OSHA]

Noted experts in the field have compiled the major statutes affecting the practice of employment law. This supplement provides an efficient update to... changes and new developments in the field.

This popular casebook provides a comprehensive overview of the constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and common law principles of employment law. The... doctrinal development of the law is assessed in light of contemporary economic, technological, social, and political conditions. The new edition contains a detailed discussion of health care reform legislation and the role of employers in financing and administering employee health plans. It also considers such important issues as sexual harassment, workplace privacy, wrongful discharge, and employee pensions. Among the statutes covered by the casebook are Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

This abridged version of our popular law school casebook, now in its seventh edition, provides a concise overview of the constitutional, statutory,... regulatory, and common law principles of employment law. The doctrinal development of the law is assessed in light of contemporary economic, technological, social, and political conditions.

This three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version of the hardbound book is printed on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and the same... pagination offered at a substantially lower price than the hardbound book.Employment law continues to be an exciting and fast-moving area of law, in both the courts and academia. Throughout this well-received book, the authors address the proper roles of economic incentives and legal regulations in achieving desirable outcomes in the workplace, encouraging students to question common assumptions underlying authority in the workplace, discuss simple rules and effective rules and their contrast, and examine the varied legal responses to problems in the workplace. Adaptable to a three- or four-hour course, this casebook contains few internal cross-references so that chapters can be taught out of sequence without damage to the overall integrity of the course. The Fifth Edition of Employment Law: Cases and Materials includes the following: •   Coverage of employment law implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. •   New and expanded coverage of international dismissal standards. •   Recent cases and developments on employee privacy, including City of Ontario v. Quon. •   New developments in employment discrimination, including Ricci and recent cases under the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. •   Comprehensive coverage of dismissal standards in private and public sector, including Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture. •   Integration of the new Restatement of Employment Law into notes and questions •   New coverage of the California apportionment of workers' compensation benefits when the disability results from work-related and non-work-related causes [Brodie v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Bd.] •   Expanded review of multiple penalties under the OSHAct when the employer exposes a number of employees to a hazard [National Association of Home Builders v. OSHA]

This textbook is a one-volume treatment of the basic analytical structure and legal policy issues informing U.S. employment law. The full range of the... subject matter is examined with chapters on defining who are employees (as opposed to independent contractors); employment contracts; employment torts; workplace privacy; post-termination restraints and workplace intellectual property issues; employee benefits; wage-hour laws; occupational safety; workers' compensation; and unemployment compensation. Introductory chapters are also included on the economic analysis of employment regulation, employment discrimination, union organization, and collective bargaining laws. The book is designed as a complement for all leading casebooks on employment law, in that it approaches the issues in a comprehensive manner that will enable the student to understand how these laws interact in particular cases. Unlike other employment law treatises, this book moves well beyond the descriptive to empower the student in tackling difficult analytical and policy issues in the field.