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Employment Law, Fifth Edition

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  • Richard Carlson
  • Michael C. Duff
  • Dallan F. Flake
  • Richard A. Bales
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Book length
952 pages
Publication Date
2023-02-01
Edition
Fifth Edition
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Preface

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Employment Law, Fifth Edition examines the most dynamic topics in employment law, from employee status and contract formation to termination and post-termination issues. The text introduces students to major issues and problems in labor policy and the practice of employment law, moving from one practical or policy area to the next, recalling and expanding students’ understanding of basic legal principles in particular contexts, and introducing laws specially designed for the protection of employees and other individual workers.

New to the 5th Edition:

  • Update on the classification of workers as employees or independent contractors
  • The Supreme Court’s Bostick decision and discrimination on the basis of LGBT status
  • New pay transparency laws
  • The impact of COVID on workplace safety and workers’ compensation law
  • New discussions of how social media, electronic surveillance, and artificial intelligence are affecting the workplace
  • New developments in the arbitration of employment disputes, including the impact of the #MeToo movement and the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021

Benefits for instructors and students:

  • Coverage that fills the gap between traditional labor (e.g., collective bargaining) and discrimination courses
  • Thorough treatment of basic employment law doctrine and legislation
  • Thought-provoking cases and the hot-button issues
  • Strong focus on potential employment disputes and their context
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About the authors
Richard R. Carlson
Professor
South Texas College of Law

Richard Carlson is a Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law Houston, in Houston, Texas, where he teaches Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, and Family Law. Professor Carlson's other books include Carlson's Federal Employment Laws (Thomson Reuters) and Carlson's Texas Employment Laws (Thomson Reuters), which he updates annually.

Professor Carlson also serves as a member of the Council for Texas Bar Association's Labor & Employment Law Section, and he edits that organization's bimonthly newsletter on developments in Texas and federal employment law. He is a member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Before beginning his teaching career in 1985, Professor Carlson was an associate at Kilpatrick & Cody in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced employment law. He served as a law clerk for Judge Lewis Morgan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1979 to 1980. He earned his JD summa cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1979.

Michael C. Duff
Professor
Saint Louis University School of Law

Michael C. Duff is Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law, where he co-directs the Wefel Center for Employment Law and is co-editor of the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law. Professor Duff is a member of the American Law Institute, a scholar-member of the Center for Progressive Reform, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an academic fellow at the National Civil Justice Institute. Professor Duff also serves as a member of the Missouri Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Professor Duff attended college in his late 20s, while simultaneously employed full-time as a union-represented airline ramp worker. He was one of the first Black Teamster shop-stewards in the U.S. Airways (now American Airlines) system. The first member of his family to attend college, Professor Duff went directly from the airport tarmac to Harvard Law School after graduating summa cum laude from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He ultimately graduated from law school in 1995 and went on to work for a small law firm in Maine where he represented injured workers and labor unions. Thereafter, he worked for the National Labor Relations Board for a decade in the Philadelphia and Minneapolis regional offices. He has written textbooks and journal articles in several different areas of workplace law.

Dallan Flake
Associate Professor
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Dallan Flake is an Associate Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Coaching, Educating and Advising Lifelong Learners (C.E.A.L.) Division. Before joining Gonzaga Law in 2022, he taught at the Ohio Northern University College of Law and Brigham Young University. Professor Flake’s scholarship focuses on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with emphasis on religious accommodations in the workplace and the employment of formerly incarcerated persons.

His current research addresses the circuit split over whether an accommodation can be reasonable if it does not fully eliminate the conflict between an employee’s job and religion. His writing has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and Boston College Law Review, among others.

Prior to teaching, Professor Flake practiced labor and employment law in Dallas, Texas, with Winstead PC and Ogletree Deakins, where he represented management on a variety of employment-related issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, noncompete agreements, wage-and-hour claims, workplace safety, employment torts, worker’s compensation, and labor disputes.

Richard A. Bales

Richard Bales teaches a wide variety of ADR and labor/employment courses, Torts, and Civil Procedure. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and authored or co-authored 10 books on a variety of topics related to labor/employment/ADR. He teaches regularly in China at China University of Political Science & Law (Beijing) and Peking School of Transnational Law (Shenzhen), and has been a Fulbright Specialist at Monash University (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and University of Tarumanagara (Jakarta, Indonesia).

Professor Bales also is a labor arbitrator. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the American Bar Foundation, and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and is on panels for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, American Arbitration Association, State Employment Relations Board (Ohio), Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services, Michigan Employment Relations Commission, Beijing Arbitration Commission/ Beijing International Arbitration Center, and Abu Dhabi Global Market Arbitration Centre.
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2023-02-01
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
952
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543847284
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798886141658
Subject
Employment Law
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