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The Employer's Legal Handbook shows you how to comply with workplace laws and regulations, run a safe and fair workplace and avoid lawsuits--all in plain English. Learn everything you need to know about Hiring, Smart personnel practices, Employees benefits, workplace health & safety, wages & hours, discrimination, terminations & layoffs, specific laws that affect you.
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Managing people is a tricky business and managers and small business owners can no longer get by without understanding the essentials of human resources. New questions abound. In our increasingly legal-minded age, how much documentation do we need to keep on each employee? What's the best way to confront complicated personnel issues, and even workplace violence? The Manager's Guide to HR provides readers with a straightforward, step-by-step guide...
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"This book contextualizes technological developments in the workplace through a legal and socioeconomic lens and argues that the modern worker is "quantified" to the detriment of social equality. Chapters focus on the impact of emerging technologies, changing office architecture, and legislative proposals to address worker privacy"--
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With the rise of globalization in recent decades, a free market in goods and the free movement of capital have spread worldwide. Should U.S. policy also favor the free movement of labor to legally cross borders? Would the elimination of barriers in the job market flood the labor pool with workers and depress wages? Or would the benefits of a flexible labor supply be a boon to our economy and raise the standard of living for anyone willing to work?...
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Working conditions impact our health, the amount of time we can spend with family, our options during momentous life events, and whether we keep or lose a job when the unexpected occurs. The global community has accepted the argument that any country that guarantees decent working conditions will suffer higher unemployment and be less competitive. This book shatters this view by presenting the first ever global analysis of the relationship between...
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Four of the world's most rapidly growing economies can be found in the Asian nations of China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. As these countries become economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of those whose labor drives this dynamic growth. How has the status of workers changed during this period of progress? Can the issue of labor standards be fairly addressed by governments long considered repressive?
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"Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as poor wages, bad working conditions, and unfair dismissal. Yet as members of individual groups with minority status, the rights of many of these individuals...
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