New York Employment Law, Second Edition, covers the entire range of private sector employment law in New York. Especially tailored for New York practitioners, the Second Edition conveniently breaks down coverage of New York employment law into four sections:

The Contractual Relationship

Includes:

• analysis of employment contracts and the employment relationship in New York, including the 1998 New York Court of Appeals decision in Rooney v. Tyson
• differences in a company's relationship with employees as opposed to its relationship with other workers, such as independent contractors and leased employees
• non-competition agreements
• an employee's duty of loyalty
• the protection of trade secrets

Discrimination

Includes reviews and analyses of employment discrimination law in New York under both state and federal sources of law:

• identifies the various statutes against discrimination
• compares the coverage of state, federal and local laws
• studies the specific prohibitions against discrimination

Incidents of The Employment Relationship

Analyzes the law on a number of topics, including:

• interviewing and employment applications
• pre-employment testing and background checks
• current issues associated with "truth-in-hiring" claims
• privacy issues in the workplace from eavesdropping and monitoring of employee communications to employee access to personnel records

Statutory Regulation

Studies New York's law in the fields of:

• wages and hours
• workers' compensation
• disability benefits
• employee safety and
• health and unemployment insurance

The Second Edition also contains a compilation of important statutory provisions and other texts chosen to facilitate your research.