Description
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!
