Legal Studies & Paralegal

For courses in Employment Law.

Advanced Employment Law provides a comprehensive overview of the most important facets of employment law—with a focus on the impact of federal regulation. Comprehensive coverage includes the history of employment and labor laws, discrimination regulation, employment law and the family, protecting workers with disabilities, privacy issues, regulations for preventing and handling sexual harassment, and applying employment law to human resources management. Throughout, reference is made to the particular federal statute that applies in a given situation.

• Boxed examples.

  • Helps students ground conceptual principles in real-world applcations.

• Edited judicial decisions.

  • Helps students delve more deeply into the intricacies of employment law.

• Chapter overviews.

• Chapter and text-end glossaries.

  • Familiarizes students with the professional vocabulary they'll encounter on the job.

• Chapter exercises.

  • Challenges students to analyze real-world employment scenarios.

Introduction: Employment Law and the Paralegal.


 1. Background of Employment Law.


 2. The Rise of Labor Unions and Labor Laws.


 3. The Depression and Early Federal Regulation.


 4. Discrimination Regulation: The Civil Rights Act and the ADEA.


 5. Employment Law and the Family.


 6. Protecting Workers with Disabilities: The Americans with Disabilities Act.


 7. Privacy Issues.


 8. Regulations for Preventing and Handling Sexual Harassment.


 9. Applying Employment Law to Human Resource Management.


10. Employment Law in a Regulated Society.


Glossary.


Appendix: Employment Handbook Checklist.


Index.

Employment Law (Legal Studies & Paralegal)

Jeffery A. Helewitz received his JD and LLM degrees from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, and his MBA, concentrating in finance, from New York University.

After working for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, Mr. Helewitz now serves as a consultant to small businesses in New York.

Mr Helewitz is an adjunct professor of paralegal studies at various paralegal schools in the New York area, as well as an adjunct professor of law at C.U.N.Y School of Law. The second edition of Advanced Employment Law is the author's fourth textbook published by Pearson Publications Company.

This contemporary textbook covers the spectrum of employment issues from federal regulations to family and privacy issues. Students will also learn how to apply employment regulations to human resource management.

Specific attention is given to the laws that create the employment relationship and define the parameters of litigating employment claims — highlighted by 21 significant cases.

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