Everyday Employment Law: The Basics [Paperback]

Lisa Guerin (Author), Amy Delpo (Author), Shannon Miehe (Author)

Book Description

Series: Everyday Employment Law | Publication Date: January 2002

Understand employment law, quickly and easily! Everyday Employment Law is the perfect introduction to working legally with employees and independent contractors.

Need information about overtime? Want some useful ideas on workplace policies? Have a question about trade secrets and need it now? This book provides all the answers with:

* frequently asked questions

* concise articles

* tips to follow, traps to avoid

* "lessons from the real world"

* dozens of resources, online and off

Designed for new business owners, managers and supervisors who need answers quickly, as well as professionals pursuing a career in Human Resources, this "Legal Basics" book covers hiring, firing and everything in between.

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About the Author

Attorney Amy Delpo

Attorney Amy DelPo brings more than six years of criminal and civil litigation experience to her work at Nolo, having litigated cases in all levels of state and federal courts, including the California Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Before coming to Nolo in January 2000, Ms. DelPo specialized in employment law, handling a wide variety of disputes between employers and employees, incluging sexual harassment, discrimination and wage-and-hour issues. Her real-world experience enriches her work at Nolo, where she writes and edits numerous employment law titles, including Dealing with Problem Employees (co-author), The Employer's Legal Handbook (editor) and Your Rights in the Workplace (editor). Ms. DelPo received her law degree with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Attorney Lisa Guerin

During her years as a law student at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, Lisa worked for Nolo as a research and editorial assistant. After a stint as a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Lisa worked primarily in the field of employment law, in both government and private practice. Lisa recently rejoined the staff at Nolo, where she is the co-author of Nolo's Pocket Guide to California Law.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Nolo.com; 1st edition (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873377966
• ISBN-13: 978-0873377966
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,461,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Basic info from several other Nolo books made into a guide., August 14, 2003

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Harinath Thummalapalli (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everyday Employment Law: The Basics (Paperback)

The information in this guide has been gleaned from several other Nolo books. So if you are looking for just basic information on this specific subject of Everyday Employment Law, then you could avoid buying all the other books and get this one instead.

It is important to note that this is really a BASIC book as indicated in the title also. There are 13 short chapters starting from the topic of hiring employees, wage and hour law, discrimination, etc. to privacy, union, and health & safety issues.

The topic of Handling Workplace Problems (Chapter 11) is better handled in another Nolo guide - Dealing With Problem Employees by Amy DelPo & Lisa Guerin. The topic of Firing and Layoffs (Chapter 12) is better handled in the Nolo guide - Firing Without Fear by Barbara Kate Repa. The topic of Wage and Hour Law (Chapter 2) and the topic of Health & Safety are better handled in the Nolo guide - Federal Employment Laws by Amy DelPo & Lisa Guerin. I haven't read all the Nolo guides so I can't place where the rest of the topics are better addressed but that's why I bought this book on the basics. I plan on buying the other detailed books at a later stage. For now, I will read the basics in this book.

The price is low enough that I felt it was worthwhile buying this book that has repeat topics from several other Nolo guides. Good luck!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, October 19, 2004

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Spiked Confections (Washougal, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everyday Employment Law: The Basics (Paperback)

I was looking for something more detailed on different laws that someone in HR should know. I felt this book was too broad and the way it was written was a little hard to read. If you are a business owner trying to get the basic "dos and don'ts" this may work, otherwise I would look elsewhere.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not for law students, June 14, 2004

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ugagal (Dallas, GA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Everyday Employment Law: The Basics (Paperback)

This is not a good study guide for an employment law class. Too basic and general. This may be good for a business owner wanting basic info about hiring/firing etc, but they would definitely still need to seek the advice of an attorney.