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Corporate Counsel Solutions: Employment Policies and Practices
Bruce Harrison, Shawe Rosenthal, LLP; contributing author: William C.E. Robinson, Corporate Counsel III, Geico Corporation
Regular Price: $195.00
Publisher: Matthew Bender
Format: One Volume
ISBN: 9781422420621
  ©2006

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Description

This one volume publication reviews employment policies and practices unique to corporate counsel. Each chapter incorporates practical insight highlighting information that is of specific interest to corporate counsel. Written by both an employment law attorney and an in-house counsel, the practical insights provide strategy, tactics, lessons and tips to deal with day-to-day employment matters.

Topics covered:

  • Discipline and discharge, including model discipline and discharge procedures and policies.
  • Employment discrimination, including discrimination issues related to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation and benefits, disability, religion.
  • Responses to discrimination charges, including investigations, EEOC mediation, burdens of proof, fact-finding, record retention, and settlement.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Discipline and Discharge—The Present Legal Context
Chapter 2 Principal Exceptions to the Employment-at-Will Doctrine
Chapter 3 Model Discipline and Discharge Procedures
Chapter 4 Substantive Policy Guidelines for Regulations of “Immoral” or “Unlawful” Employee Conduct
Chapter 5 Substantive Policy Guidelines for Other Difficult or High-Risk Discipline or Discharge Decisions
Chapter 6 Other Problems—Other Solutions
Chapter 7 Sources of Law
Chapter 8 Key Theories of Employment Discrimination
Chapter 9 Discrimination Resulting From Recruitment Procedures
Chapter 10 Discrimination Resulting From the Use of Application Forms and Other Pre-Employment Inquiry Procedures
Chapter 11 Problems Involved in Reference and Other Background Checks
Chapter 12 Discrimination in Hiring and Initial Assignment
Chapter 13 Discrimination in Promotion and Transfer
Chapter 14 Developing an Equal Opportunity Profile
Chapter 15 Discrimination in Compensation and Benefit Practices
Chapter 16 The Working Environment: Discrimination in Terms, Conditions, and Privileges of Employment
Chapter 17 Discrimination in Discipline and Discharge
Chapter 18 Layoffs and Reductions in Force
Chapter 19 Discrimination on the Basis of Religion, and the Duty of Accommodation of Employees’ Religious Tenets
Chapter 20 Discrimination on the Basis of Disability
Chapter 21 Record Retention and Filing Requirements
Chapter 22 The Importance of an Effective Response
Chapter 23 Overview of Laws and Agencies
Chapter 24 Determining the Roles of Persons Responsible for Preparing and Presenting Responses to Charges
Chapter 25 Initial Communications with the Investigating Agency
Chapter 26 Initial Considerations in Responding to Charges of Discrimination
Chapter 27 EEOC Mediation
Chapter 28 Reviewing and Responding to the Charge
Chapter 29 Burdens of Proof in Discrimination Cases
Chapter 30 Fact-Finding Conference
Chapter 31 Harassment Charges
Chapter 32 Settlement
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