2008 EDITION- Available now!
Authored by: Charles Caulkins, Michael Mitchell (Click here to meet the authors!)
Fisher & Phillips LLP

Our flagship Florida labor law manual. This edition will help you put a stop to time-wasting, budget breaking lawsuits, penalties and attorney’s fees. Contains more than 550 pages, 43 chapters and more than 19 pages of index entries. Includes chapters on: Hiring, Wages and hours, Discrimination in employment, Performance reviews, Discipline, Termination, Technology in the workplace, Unemployment compensation, Workers’ compensation, Drugs and alcohol in the workplace and MANY more!

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Table of Contents

1. Snapshot – Read me!
2. Compliance thresholds
3. Hiring
4. Job descriptions
5. Fair Credit Reporting Act
6. New hire reporting
7. Affirmative action
8. Immigration
9. Discrimination in employment
10. New employee orientation
11. Flexible work arrangements
12. Independent contractors
13. Telecommuting
14. Wages and hours
15. Child labor
16. Employee handbooks
17. Employee personnel files
18. Employee performance reviews – Read me!
19. Discipline
20. Resolving employee disputes
21. Termination
22. Whistleblowing
23. Plant closing or mass layoff
24. Unemployment compensation
25. Employee benefits
26. Pension and profit sharing plans
27. COBRA/health care continuation
28. Health care portability (HIPAA)
29. Family and medical leave
30. Veterans’ rights
31. Workers’ compensation
32. Drugs and alcohol in the workplace
33. Smoking in the workplace
34. Safety in the workplace
35. Workplace violence
36. Privacy in the workplace
37. Changing technology in the workplace
38. Employment in the Internet age
39. Lie detector tests
40. Trade secrets
41. Public employers
42. Unions
43. Diversity in the workplace
A. Recordkeeping requirements
B. Posting requirements
C. Holidays
Index