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Labor and Employment in Massachusetts: A Guide to Employment Laws, Regulations & Practices, Second Edition

Written for business owners, personnel directors, general managers, and human ...


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Publisher :Michie
Format: 1 volume, looseleaf, with current supplement , BOOK
ISBN: 9780327124443
2003
  $164.00
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    Written for business owners, personnel directors, general managers, and human resource staff persons who are managing Massachusetts employees on a daily basis, this single-volume desktop reference provides basic information concerning the laws, regulations, and policies affecting labor and employment in Massachusetts. Use it to develop a personnel policy and as a resource to answer questions on employment law issues. It offers solid guidance on important new procedures and potential sources of liability. This book gives you everything you need on the federal and Massachusetts compliance requirements, pulled together in one place.

    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 Sexual Harassment
    Chapter 6 Family and Medical Leave
    Chapter 7 The MA Civil Rights Act and Equal Rights Act
    Chapter 8 Performance Appraisal, Progressive Discipline and Personnel Files
    Chapter 9 Employee Privacy
    Chapter 10 Drugs in the Workplace
    Chapter 11 Defamation and the Employment Relationship
    Chapter 12 Labor Relations, Union Organizing, Collective Bargaining, and Strikes
    Chapter 13 Employer Liability for Employees' Acts
    Chapter 14 Independent Contractors
    Chapter 15 Private Health Care and Life Insurance
    Chapter 16 Employee Disability, Death, and Workers' Compensation
    Chapter 17 Employee Retirement Benefits
    Chapter 18 Termination of Employment
    Chapter 19 Unemployment Compensation
    Chapter 20 Settlement Agreements and Releases
    Chapter 21 Plant Closing and Mass Layoffs
    Chapter 22 The Management Audit - A Preventive Tool
    Chapter 23 Alternative Dispute Resolution
    Chapter 24 Agencies, Advisers, and Information Sources

    Statutory and Regulatory Appendices
    Appendix A Equal Rights Law
    Appendix B Lie Detector Tests
    Appendix C Employee's Access to Personnel Records
    Appendix D The Older Workers Benefit Protection Act
    Appendix E ADA Enforcement Guidance: Preemployment Disability-Related Questions and Medical Examinations
    Appendix F Advisory Opinions of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office: Fair Labor and Business Practices Division
    Appendix G MCAD Policy on Alternative Dispute Resolution
    Appendix H MCAD Model Sexual Harassment Policy
    Appendix I MCAD Guidelines: Employment Discrimination on the Basis of Handicap-Chapter 151B
    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.

     

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