Providing clear guidance on employer responsibilities during terminations, this handbook addresses compliance with federal and state regulations, exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine, employee privacy and testing issues, and considerations for public employees and family leave.
Employment termination presents many inherent challenges to practitioners advising employers. This handbook provides a road map to topics such as federal and state regulations; contractual and quasi-contractual exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine; employer responsibilities; investigation, testing, and privacy of employees; public employees; attorneys as employees; partners and minority shareholders; criminal law in the workplace; and pregnancy and family leave.
Chapter 1 — Federal and State Labor Regulation
Heather A. Bailey, Amundsen Davis LLC, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Contractual and Quasi-Contractual Exceptions to the Employment-at-Will Doctrine
Nicholas Anaclerio and Michael D. Considine, Vedder Price, Chicago
Chapter 3 — Employer Record-Keeping Responsibilities
Lynn W. Esp, General Counsel, ZFS Solutions, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
Chapter 4 — Investigation, Testing, and Privacy
Tiffany L. Carpenter and Anna R. Ranger, Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, Chicago, Dane M. Lepola, Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, Royal Oak, Michigan, and Christopher L. Schaeffer, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Public Employees
Lynn W. Esp, General Counsel, ZFS Solutions, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
Chapter 6 — Lawyers as Employees: Rights and Responsibilities
Tiffany L. Carpenter, Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, Chicago, and Sarah K. Billington, Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, Peoria
Chapter 7 — Partners and Minority Shareholders
Kathryn M. Hartrick, Hartrick Employment Law, Evanston
Chapter 8 — Criminal Law in the Workplace
Lynn W. Esp, General Counsel, ZFS Solutions, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
Chapter 9 — Pregnancy and Family Leave Issues in the Workplace
L. Steven Platt, Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC,Chicago
