Understanding employment law /

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Author / Creator:Bales, Richard A., author.
Edition:Third edition.
Imprint:Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, ©2019.
Description:xix, 268 pages; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Understanding series
Understanding series (New York, N.Y.).
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11894265
Related Items:Revision of: Understanding employment law.
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Other authors / contributors:Secunda, Paul M., author.
Hirsch, Jeffrey M., author.
ISBN:9781531011659
1531011659
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Legal boundaries of the employment relationship
  • Historical foundations of employment at will
  • Contract erosions of employment at will
  • Tort erosions of employment at will
  • Good faith and fair dealing
  • The future of wrongful discharge law
  • Employee free speech and political protections
  • Employee privacy protections
  • Defamation and employment references
  • The duty of loyalty, trade secrets, covenants not to compete, and employee inventions
  • Regulation of compensation and leave time
  • Unemployment and WARN
  • Employee benefit plans under ERISA
  • Safety and health
  • Enforcement of employment rights
  • Arbitration of employment disputes.