Employment Relationships: Law & Practice analyzes the state and federal employment laws and recent trends in case law affecting the employment relationship. Topics covered include: federal discrimination law, including ADEA, ADA, the Equal Pay Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act
-- sexual harassment, with a discussion of same-sex harassment
-- severance pay, golden parachutes and COBRA
-- employee's fiduciary duties to his employer
-- employee privacy, with discussions of privacy issues relating to employee e-mail and computer files
-- tort actions, such as defamation, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing and infliction of emotional distress. Practice pointers throughout the chapter provide practical advice from the authors. The set also includes over 50 forms on disk, including forms for employment contracts, personnel manual forms, litigation forms, sample severance plans and golden parachutes and an on-line access, policy.