What Every Business Manager and HR Professional Should Know About Federal Labor and Employment Laws should be on the desk of every business manager and HR professional. This 301-page guide offers up-to-date and easy-to-understand explanations of all the significant laws that affect your business or organization. Now you can be absolutely sure what these laws are and what they mean.

This is one volume packed with helpful checklists, do's and don'ts guidance and many question and answer sections that address issues managers and HR professionals face every day.

Thousands of employers, managers and human resource professionals have relied on previous editions to better understand the complex issues of federal labor and employment laws.

WHAT OTHERS SAY:

A solid, informative and easy to use guide through the increasingly complex maze of employment law and human resource management issues. Complete with Q & A's and checklists that answer the questions Business Managers and HR Professionals will actually face on the job. A practical guide for the novice and an up to date refresher for those with experience, this should be on the desk of every Business Manager and HR Professional. William C. Bruce, Vice President Employee and Industrial Relations, United Technologies Corporation.

My students really liked the previous edition of this book when I used it a few years ago, and I plan to use the new edition in my future human resource management classes. Teri Elkins, Associate Professor, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

This new edition updates the changes that have occurred in the statutes and contains everything you need to know about:

• The difference between employees and independent contractors.
• The Fair Labor Standards Act (including minimum wage and overtime issues).
• Anti-Discrimination Laws and how the EEOC works.
• The Family and Medical Leave Act.
• Sexual harassment and age discrimination issues.
• OSHA and health insurance laws.
• The National Labor Relations Act (with a special section on union organizing and guidance on how to avoid a union).
• Drug and alcohol abuse issues.
• Conducting effective workplace investigations.
• Maintaining workplace privacy.
• A special chapter on employee-related mistakes commonly made by employers and how you can avoid them.
• And, much, much more.

Federal Labor and Employment Laws 301 pages (8.5" X 11" Soft bound) $74.95