Employment Law
introduces students to major issues and problems in labor policy and the practice of employment law, moving from one practical or policy area to the next, recalling and expanding students’ understanding or basic legal principles in particular contexts, and introducing laws specially designed for the protection of employees and other individual workers.
Updates to the Fourth Edition:
Materials current through early 2018 and the early Trump Administration
Updated materials on employee status and joint employers in the sharing and gig economy
New materials on
interns and other student workers
proof and rebuttal of mixed motive
discrimination on the basis of sexual identity and orientation
the “personal comfort” doctrine in workers’ compensation law
testing for prescription drugs
and “direct observation” rules
Employee “concerted action” in “dealing” with employer, including use of social media
Updates on
the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employee benefit plans
the impact of Marijuana legal reform
employer electronic surveillance of employees
Developments in the law of tortious interference