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

The SHRM Essential Guide to Employment Law is 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 themselves 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.

The Second Edition features scores of updates and new content, including:

• New NLRB rules
• New state law limitations on inquiring about salary history
• Compliance for telework
• Lawfulness of provisions in severance and release agreements
• Department of Labor’s change of position on volunteer workers
• New state laws limiting or prohibiting non-compete agreements
• and much more!

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.

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