Statutory Supplement To Legal Protection For The Individual Employee Second Edition

This statutory supplement is designed to accompany the main casebook. It contains current copies of all major federal labor and employment laws, representative examples of all major state employment laws, and statistics on the current level of workers' compensation benefits in the various states. It also contains copies of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act.

Provides greater ease of coverage, offers more challenging examination of key policy questions, and further examines gaps between law and reality. Includes expanded background information and competing conceptual perspectives. Based on assumption that most law schools offer separate courses in collective labor relations and employment discrimination; that it is better to study in depth the principal policies governing individual employment relationship than attempt a cursory catalog of every rule and procedure; and that legal principles and remedies have become the means of responding to individual workers who lack economic power, foresight, or self-discipline to attain job terms and conditions.

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This law school casebook supplement reflects the latest case developments in the rapidly changing field of Legal Protection of Individual Employees. It includes developments since the publication of the casebook in areas such as contracts for hire, regulation of safety and health, compensation for work related injuries and illnesses, minimum wage regulation, unemployment benefits, and retirement income security programs.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.