TY - BOOK AU - Walsh,David J.. TI - Employment law for human resouce practice T2 - South-Western legas studies in business,Academic series SN - 9781111972196 PY - 2010/// CY - Mason (USA) PB - South-Western KW - Derecho laboral KW - Labor laws and legislation KW - United States KW - Personnel management N1 - Overview of employment law -- The employment relationship -- Overview of employment discrimination -- Recruitment, applications, and interviews -- Background checks, references, and verifying employment eligibility -- Employment tests -- Hiring and promotion decisions -- Affirmative action -- Harassment -- Reasonably accommodating disability and religion -- Work-life conflicts and other diversity issues -- Wages, hours, and pay equity -- Benefits -- Unions and collective bargaining -- Occupational safety and health -- Performance, appraisals, training, and development -- Privacy on the job : Information, monitoring, and investigation -- Terminating individual employees -- Downsizing and post-termination issues N2 - Employment Law for Human Resource Practice, 4th edition explains the major issues and rules of employment law and how they apply to your human resource career. Clippings of current news stories and events, hypothetical situations, and real cases help you understand how the law applies to each stage of employment -- from hiring, to managing, to firing -- and emphasize the application of legal concepts to future business situations. Practical advice for what to do as a manager is conveniently summarized at the end of each chapter; Índice: PART I: INTRODUCTION TO EMPLOYMENT LAW. 1. Overview of employment law. 2. The employment relationship. 3. Overview of employment discrimination. PART 2: THE HIRING PROCESS. 4. Recruitment, applications and interviews. 5. Background checks, references, and verifying employment eligibility. 6. Employment test. 7. Hiring and promotion decisions. PART 3: MANAGING A DIVERSE WORKFORCE. 8. Affirmative action. 9. Harassment. 10. Resonably accommodating disability and religion. 11. Work-life conflicts and other diversity issues. PART 4: PAY, BENEFITS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT. 12. Wages, hours, and pay equity. 13. Benefits. 14. Unions and collective bargaining. 15. Occupationak safety and health. PART 5: MANAGING PERFORMANCE. 16. Performance appraisals, training, and development. 17. Privacy on the job: information, motoring, and investigations. PART 6: TERMINATING EMPLOYMENT. 18. Terminating individual employees. 19. Downsizing and post-termination issues ER -