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Labor and Employment in Rhode Island: A Guide to Employment Laws, Regulations, and Practices

This single-volume desktop reference provides basic information concerning ...


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Publisher :Michie
Format: Treatise , BOOK
ISBN: 9780327009429
2003
  $138.00
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    This single-volume desktop reference provides basic information concerning the laws, regulations, and policies affecting labor and employment in Rhode Island. The book may be used to help develop personnel policies and as a resource for answers to questions on employment law issues. It offers solid guidance on important new procedures and potential sources of liability and keeps you abreast of important regulations governing all aspects of the employer-employee relationship - from hiring to termination or retirement.

    Chapter 1 Hiring
    Chapter 2 Hours of Work and Payment of Wages
    Chapter 3 Health and Safety Standards
    Chapter 4 Employment Discrimination Laws
    Chapter 5 Performance Appraisal, Progressive Discipline, and Personnel Files
    Chapter 6 Employee Privacy
    Chapter 7 Defamation and the Employment Relationship
    Chapter 8 Labor Relations, Union Organizing, Collective Bargaining, and Strikes
    Chapter 9 Employer Liability for Employees' Acts
    Chapter 10 Private Health Care and Life Insurance
    Chapter 11 Employee Disability, Death, and Workers' Compensation
    Chapter 12 Employee Retirement Benefits
    Chapter 13 Termination of Employment
    Chapter 14 Plant Closing and Mass Layoffs
    Chapter 15 The Management Audit-A Preventive Tool
    Chapter 16 Alternative Dispute Resolution
    Statutory Appendices
    Index

     

    Hirsch, Jeffrey L.


    JEFFREY L. HIRSCH
    PARTNER, HIRSCH ROBERTS WEINSTEIN LLP
    mailto:jhirsch@hrwlawyers.com
    2 Park Plaza
    Boston, MA 02116
    (617) 348 4315


    Jeff Hirsch is a founding partner of the boutique law firm of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP which focuses on litigation, labor and employment. He deals extensively in all areas of labor and employment law. This includes representing both union and nonunion employers in matters such as union organizing campaigns, labor negotiations labor arbitration, wrongful discharge, and sexual harassment cases. He has appeared before the National Labor Relations Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Department of Labor, and other related organizations. Mr. Hirsch was appointed by the governor in 1995 to the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and continues to serve.

    In 2005, Mr. Hirsch was elected a Fellow in The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, which is a non profit professional association honoring the leading lawyers nationwide in the practice of labor and employment law. Membership to the College is by invitation only reserved for those who have the highest level of character, integrity, professional expertise and leadership. Mr. Hirsch, who is ranked by both Chambers USA and the "Best Lawyers in America" as one of the top labor and employment lawyers in Massachusetts, has lectured and written extensively on employment topics. His books include Labor and Employment in Massachusetts, Labor and Employment in Connecticut, Labor and Employment in New Hampshire, Labor and Employment in Rhode Island, and the Occupational Safety and Health Handbook, all published by LEXIS NEXIS. His books are used by thousands of lawyers, human resources professionals, and managers. Since 2001, Mr. Hirsch has served on the editorial board for Bender's Labor and Employment Bulletin, a national publication covering the full scope of labor and employment law issues.

    Mr. Hirsch received his B.S. from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and his J.D. from Boston University. He taught in Boston University's M.B.A. program and is a Fellow in the school's Human Resource Policy Institute.

    Thomas C. Wigand


    THOMAS C. WIGAND
    Middletown, RI 02842
    tomw@wigandassociates.com
    (401) 842-0300

    Tom Wigand is a management-side employment & labor law attorney and human resources professional; he is admitted to practice law in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and has the SPHR certification. His practice focuses on proactive employment law (compliance - employee relations - preventative employment law) and proactive labor law (union avoidance), providing next level coaching for Human Resource leaders and company management. He has represented clients in EEOC, DOL and NLRB matters.

    Attorney Wigand has provided professional services to everything from "micro" through Fortune 500 companies, most notably having conducted (on a subcontract basis) an airline's front-line union avoidance efforts for Washington, D.C., NYC and Boston - successfully repelling two unions' organizing drives targeting multiple workgroups and tens of thousands of employees.

    In addition to legal experience, Mr. Wigand has prior management experience, including having served as part of the executive management team for a group of sub-corporations (automobile retailers), during which time he was responsible for general corporate matters, litigation management, acquisition of commercial properties, led two "ground up" construction projects and handled franchise development as the business grew from 9 to 20 franchises (including Audi; BMW; Cadillac; Ferrari; Infiniti; Lamborghini; Lexus; Mercedes; Porsche and Rolls Royce-Bentley).

    Mr. Wigand received his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University, and his B.A. from Boston University.

     

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