This essential handbook guides practitioners advising employers on the challenges inherent in employment termination issues. Chapter topics include federal and state regulations; contractual exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine; employer record-keeping responsibilities; investigation, testing, and privacy of employees; public employees; the rights and responsibilities of attorneys as employees; partners and minority shareholders; criminal law in the workplace; and pregnancy and family leave in the workplace.
Chapter 1 — Federal and State Labor Regulation
Heather A. Bailey, SmithAmundsen LLC, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Contractual Exceptions to the Employment-at-Will Doctrine
Marcia G. Cotler, Cotler Law, LLC, Northbrook
Chapter 3 — Employer Record-Keeping Responsibilities
Lynn W. Esp, General Counsel, M&K Truck Centers, Byron Center, Michigan
Chapter 4 — Investigation, Testing, and Privacy
Tiffany L. Carpenter, Christopher L. Schaeffer, and Dane M. Lepola, Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Public Employees
Cynthia Pietruch, Pietrucha Law Firm, LLC, Naperville
Chapter 6 — Lawyers as Employees: Rights and Responsibilities
Steven M. Hartmann and Meghan E. Tepas, Freeborn & Peters LLP, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Partners and Minority Shareholders
Kathryn M. Hartrick, Hartrick Employment Law, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Criminal Law in the Workplace
Jacinta Epting, V.C. of Business & Procurement Services, City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago
Chapter 9 — Pregnancy and Family Leave Issues in the Workplace
L. Steven Platt, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C., Chicago
