Your Rights in the Workplace: An Employee's Guide to Fair Treatment

Employees: Learn your rights!

Your Rights in the Workplace is an invaluable reference for every employee. Whether you have questions about your paycheck, discrimination, layoffs, or benefits, you’ll find answers here.

Get the facts on:

• drug and other workplace testing
• sexual harassment
• wrongful termination
• wages and overtime
• sex, race, age, and disability discrimination
• family and medical leave
• on-the-job safety and health
• health insurance and retirement plans, and
• unemployment, disability, and workers’ compensation insurance.

Your Rights in the Workplace also contains nearly 20 charts on state-specific employment laws, including those on equal pay, use of criminal records, paid sick leave, social media passwords, medical and recreational marijuana, and more.

Sachi Barreiro is an attorney, Nolo editor, and the coauthor of The Manager’s Legal Handbook and The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws. Prior to joining Nolo, she practiced employment law in the private sector, specializing in workplace discrimination, wage and hour violations, and benefits and leave.