Managers today are managing in a legal minefield and the only sure way to win a lawsuit is to prevent it from occurring in the first place. This comprehensive guide to employment law tells exactly how to do just that. Published by Prentice Hall and updated in 1994, it's written for managers, executives, and business owners, and delivers legal explanations in plain, easy-to-understand English, with vivid case examples and succinct guidelines for implementing the law.
The book covers every potential trouble area in employee relations, including discrimination, harassment, privacy (including drug testing and electronic privacy issues), illegal questions to avoid in interviews, safety, stress, repetitive strain injuries, manager's rights, and references.
After reading this book, managers will have a good overview of every law they need to know, be able to implement new policies and procedures to comply with the most important regulations, and understand that treating employees fairly is the best way to prevent lawsuits.
Rita Risser is the founder of Fair Measures and an attorney, author and speaker. Rita's experience includes working with the Disability Law Center and the legal department of a Fortune 500 corporation, and from 1981 to 1990, heading her own firm representing both employers and employees. Her legal practice now is limited exclusively to consulting with executives and HR professionals on implementing procedures for managing in the spirit of the law. Rita's book Stay Out of Court! The Manager's Guide to Preventing Employee Lawsuits was published by Prentice Hall in 1993. The video, Preventing Employee Lawsuits, based on her book, won the first place gold award at the Houston International Film Festival in 1994.