Each edition of Employment Law Yearbook provides a comprehensive overview of the most important developments in employment law over the past year, including critical case decisions, legislative changes, government agency actions, and other events of interest to employers, employment and HR professionals, corporate attorneys, and employee advocates. Major topic of coverage include: wage-and-hour laws and litigationthe Office of Federal Con-tract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and related recent developments, compliance initiatives, case law, and settlementsdiscrimination based on gender and related characteristics, the Equal Pay Act, and sexual harassmentdiscrimination based on race, religion, and national originage discrimination, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA), and related litigationequal employment opportunity (EEO) class actionsthe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)employee privacy law and privacy rights litigationprotection of trade secretswhistleblowing and other retaliation claimsemployee blogging, social media use by employees and by employers, related laws and regulations, social media in investigations and litigationfamily, medical, and military leave, recent developments under the FMLA and USERRAarbitration, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), employer-employee arbitration agreements, and disputesSpearheaded by a team of contributors from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Employment Law Yearbook 2019 includes valuable contributions from experts at six other highly respected firms: Berger, Williams & Reynolds, LLP; Cozen O'Connor; Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho; Littler Mendelson P.C.; Nichols Kaster PLLP; and Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt.