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Contemporary Employment Law 2E. Interactive Study. Click on any of the links below to activate an interactive study tool. Multiple Choice/True False Quiz. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides gives all of the outlines, highlights, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests.

You will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. You can get this code from any reference librarian or at the Circulation Desk. Nutshells are little paperback books that give a concise overview of an area of law.

This nutshell provides the background needed to acquire a thorough understanding of employee benefits law. Text covers plan finance and taxation; economic aspects; regulations; ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislative background; vesting; participation, accrual, and non-interference; distribution; employee securities; employee stock ownership plans; preemption; nondiscrimination; and plan termination. Covers individual claims of intentional discrimination; systematic claims of intentional discrimination; non-intentional discrimination; special proof issues under Title VII; specific issues involving the five protected classifications; enforcement: procedures; enforcement: remedies; the reconstruction Civil Rights Acts, the Equal Pay Act,the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; and discrimination on the basis of disability. Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.

This book provides an introduction to the field of employment discrimination law, both at the abstract level of theory and at the concrete level of doctrine. The leading decisions of the Supreme Court receive a comprehensive analysis, in terms both of theory and doctrine, putting them in the context of the relevant statutory provisions and other judicial decisions. This book offers three different theoretical perspectives–based on history, economics, and critical social theory–to explain both the complexities and the tensions inherent in existing law. The new edition of this book addresses several major developments in the field.

Liability for retaliation has largely expanded under Title VII and other statutes, some of which do not explicitly prohibit this form of discrimination. The Supreme Court continues to refine the requirement of proof of intentional discrimination in individual cases, relying outside of the main prohibitions in Title VII on a test of “but for” causation. In class actions, the decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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Dukes has redefined the circumstances in which a class action can be certified and re-examined how the procedural requirements for certification interact with the merits of the plaintiff’s claims. Affirmative action has come under renewed scrutiny in two decisions by the Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas, resulting in ambivalent signals about the standards for assessing the constitutionality of affirmative action plans. The Court’s decisions on gay marriage have implications for the coverage of the laws against employment discrimination, as revealed by recent controversies over transgender rights. All of these major developments, and others as well, are covered in the new edition of this book.

This book 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. Employment law is fast emerging as a dominant area of practice and concern. This Law Stories title provides behind-the-scenes descriptions of the landmark cases - the litigants, the lawyers, the strategy - that helped shape this growing field.

The objective is to help the student understand that, well before appellate judges are involved, the basic narrative and the doctrinal/policy potential of the case has been set by the decisions of litigants and their representatives. Several chapters are also devoted to the story behind some of the principal statutes in the area.

Nutshells are little paperback books that give a concise overview of an area of law. This nutshell focuses on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (race, national origin, sex, and religious discrimination), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act as applied to the workplace. The book addresses the method of proving violations, both disparate treatment and disparate impact analysis, including a brief primer of statistical proof, as well as the defenses to the express use of proscribed classifications.

Finally, the book provides a quick reference to the complex procedural and remedial provisions of the statutes. This title contains briefs for each major case in this casebook.

High Court briefs are written to present the essential facts, issue, decision and rationale for each case. These briefs are followed by a useful legal analysis, which provides extra tips and contextual background about each case, connecting the case to the broader concepts being developed throughout the casebook.

This book also supplies case vocabulary, which defines new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases. Finally, to enhance the reader's recall, there is a corresponding memory graphic for each brief that portrays an entertaining visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case. Appreciating the challenges the system faces in an era of declining unionization rates in private firms and rising competitive forces in labor markets, this one-volume, concise treatise gives students an appreciation of the analytical structure of the law that governs how employees can form workplace organizations and bargain over the terms and conditions of employment. New forms of labor organizing, such as the corporate campaign, card check/neutrality agreements, and worker centers are highlighted.

The book is designed to complement leading labor law case books, including discussion of principal decisions featured in those texts, as well as providing both a policy and practical context for what remains a dynamic area of law and social justice. Labor Law Stories tells the story of the development of labor law over the course of nearly seventy years, beginning with one of the earliest cases under the National Labor Relations Act, Mackay Radio, and ending with one of the most recent, Hoffman Plastic.

The book includes cases from the major topics in a basic or advanced course on Labor Law, and describes not only the doctrinal evolution of law under the NLRA, but also the impact of the law on the lives of the people involved and their advocates, and how the law they made through litigation sometimes had an impact on others, and sometimes did not.The authors interviewed dozens of participants in the fourteen cases addressed in the book, including union organizers; company managers; lawyers for unions, companies, and the NLRB; members of the NLRB; and Supreme Court clerks. This book provides a comprehensive overview of employment law and is a useful supplement to any employment law casebook. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 examines who is an employee and who is an employer. Chapter 2 analyzes the employment-at-will doctrine and job security claims.

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Chapter 3 focuses on privacy, autonomy, and dignity. Chapter 4 analyzes claims that employers may have against employees. Chapter 5 discusses employment terms and benefits that are directly mandated by law, like minimum wage, or strongly encouraged or regulated by law, such as pensions. Finally, Chapter 6 examines workplace health and safety. The Understanding series provides an overview and analysis of legal subjects. It provides less analysis than a hornbook but more than a nutshell. This text provides a broad overview our nation's employment-based health care system and the Affordable Care Act and its effect on employer-provided health care plans.

The book addresses the Supreme Court's most recent employee benefits decisions, including M & G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, and U.S. The Understanding series provides an overview and analysis of legal subjects. It provides less analysis than a hornbook but more than a nutshell. This text begins first with common-law employment doctrines such as employment-at-will, employment contracts, employment torts, workplace privacy issues, and restrictive covenants. It then turns to federal and state statutory regulation of the workplace, covering topics such as compensation (including wage and hour legislation and unemployment insurance), employee benefits (including leave time, pensions, and health insurance), and workplace safety legislation.

This Understanding treatise examines the multifaceted and complex law of private-sector Labor Law. Because Understanding Labor Law focuses on relations between management and labor in the private sector, it deals primarily with the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, and its interpretation and application by the federal courts and the National Labor Relations Board. The book is organized in a format that is consistent with the organization of most Labor Law courses. At the end of each chapter is a section titled 'Chapter Highlights,' summarizing some of the major doctrines discussed in the chapter. The topics covered in this Labor Law legal studies outline are statutory foundations of present labor law (including National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Taft-Hartley, Norris-LaGuardia Act, and Landrum-Griffin Act), organizing campaigns, selection of the bargaining representative, collective bargaining (including negotiating the agreement, lockouts, administering the agreement, and arbitration), strikes, boycotts, and picketing.

Other topics include concerted activity protected under the NLRA, civil rights legislation, grievance, federal regulation of compulsory union membership arrangements, state regulation of compulsory membership agreements, 'right to work' laws, discipline of union members, election of union officers, and corruption.

Overview This module is concerned with contemporary labour law. It combines legal analysis and the transmission of practical legal skills with a highly contextual and interdisciplinary understanding of the labour law and regulatory debates around labour regulation. To that end, workshops will feature extended discussion on key aspects of contemporary labour legislation using scholarly texts.

Students will also study key legal aspects of the modern employment relationship including the contract of employment, statutory employment protection provisions (for example unfair dismissal and redundancy protection), anti-discrimination legislation and provisions for reconciling work and family life (e.g. Pregnancy protection and parental leave). The module will also explore selected aspects of collective labour law including the role and status of trade unions, the legal regulation of collective bargaining and/or the regulation of industrial conflict.

The module seeks to combine a detailed knowledge of fundamental key aspects of labour law with the development of broader conceptual, critical and evaluative perspectives on workplace regulation. Details This module appears in:. Contact hours A two hour weekly workshop totalling 20 hours approximately.

Method of assessment 100% coursework consisting of an essay of 5000 words.