Customer Reviews

Employment Law for Business

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As an attorney, manager, and teacher of human resources professionals, I recommend this book. I found that thie information was thoroughly researched. I also appreciated that the legal information was presented in a business context so that managers who are not lawyers could understand the information and readily appy it to real life workplace problems.

This book gives a good comprehensive look at the mountain of law and regulations encountering employees in both the public and private sector. The examples in the beginning of each chapter are very useful as well as the actual cases used to exemplify how the law has been applied to real-world situations.

A number of reviews of this book are unfairly critical. Reviewers who criticize it on the basis of being too "liberal" or "anti-management" seem to be missing an obvious point. Regulating the employment environment is an inherently liberal idea, designed to protect "common" workers at the expense of the organization and its representatives. Whether you like this system or not is irrelevant; this is the way that employment law in the US currently exists, and the book describes it accurately without any more "bias" than any other book on the topic.

As for the flow and writing, the authors do throw a lot of terminology at the reader in the first few chapters, but this is unavoidable when trying to translate an advanced legal topic for an audience without any legal training. Despite this challenge, the writing and explanations are very clear, and many difficult concepts are illustrated with EXCELLENT case studies and snippets from opinions. I find that students sometimes have trouble with the layout of the book because it is not organized by laws and statutes, but rather by legal concepts and case types that sometimes cut across multiple laws and statutes. Consequently, issues discussed several chapters back do "pop up" again seemingly out of the blue. However, this structure is actually a major strength as the reader can easily find everything about a topic (e.g., gender discrimination) in one place without having to hunt statute-by-statute through the book to find the applicable content.

In short, a great introduction for someone new to employment law, and definitely the book to use if teaching a course on this topic.

I liked this law book because it has shorter versons of cases for quick lookup. What I hate about this book is that it doesn't list laws like ADA, Title VII, etc. in their entirety. It speaks about parts of them, but doesn't list them for you to read yourself.

I really like the way this book is set up and is a very good reference manual for today's managers.

A lot of useful examples (cases) are provided. The book is easy to read. It's a great reference book for someone in human resources.

I was pleasantly surprised that this text was in so good a condition. I purchased it used and am glad I did! The college bookstore was asking $200.00 for this book. I saved $150.00 on this purchase! This text is very well written and a must for all HR graduate students.

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I ordered this textbook and as stated it arrived with no complications or problems. The book was as advertised in great condidtion. FROM THIS EXPERIENCE I WOULD RECOMMEND TO PURCHASE. Nice doing business with you.

The text came on time and in great condition. I would have liked to have received it sooner, but it all worked out. The price was great considering most of the other places I checked out was over double the price. It actually looked like new.