Employment Law: The Workplace Rights of Employees and Employers (Human Resource Action US) - Softcover

Wolkinson, Benjamin W.; Block, Richard N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557868328 ISBN 13: 9781557868329

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1996

Synopsis

Employment Law examines the relevant statutes, judicial decisions, executive orders, and administrative policies that shape the respective rights of managers and workers at the workplace. It goes well beyond simply stating what is legal and what is illegal. It assumes that the student and the professional needs to understand the principles underlying the law so that he or she can evaluate an organization's decisions against those principles.

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From the Back Cover

In recent years there has been a revolution in the law of the workplace. The burgeoning discipline of employment law has replaced labor law, the law of union-management relations, as the relationship with the individual employee has become the key factor. This book familiarizes the reader with the basics of US employment law. It is oriented both to students taking a course in employment law and to human resources professionals who need to deal daily with matters that have legal significance.

Employment Law examines the relevant statutes, judicial decisions, executive orders, and administrative policies that shape the respective rights of managers and workers at the workplace. It goes well beyond simply stating what is legal and what is illegal. It assumes that the student and the professional needs to understand the principles underlying the law so that he or she can evaluate an organization's decisions against those principles. The authors make wide use of case material and administrative regulation, since it is the cases and regulations that ultimately identify and explain the legal principles as the major force influencing and shaping government policy.

About the Author

Benjamin W. Wolkinson is Profession of Labor Relations at the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. Prior to joining Michigan State University, he worked as an economist for the National Bureau of Standards, as an industrial analyst with the US National Labor Relations, and as a concilitor for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and serves as an arbitrator for many employers and labor unions in Michigan ad Ohio.

Richard N. Block is Professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Industrial Relations Research Association from 1990 to 1993 and served as Director of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations from 1985 to 1993. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in the City of New York and the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto. He is at active labor arbitrator and serves on several permanent panels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1557868328
• ISBN 13: 9781557868329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326