The Employee Rights Handbook: Effective Legal Strategies to Protect Your Job from Interview to Pink Slip

by Steven Mitchell Sack

The Employee Rights Handbook , written by best selling author Steven Mitchell Sack, The Employee's Lawyer ®, is a comprehensive legal guide in simple English providing all the essential information workers need to protect themselves before, during, and after their jobs have ended. Attorney Sack's comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book is a first-aid kit to understanding one's job rights, giving you the information-and power to fight back, cut a deal if you are fired, and land firmly on your feet. The book advises how to be properly hired, steps to take if you resign or are fired, and how to enforce your on-the-job rights. Readers will learn how to anticipate and avoid common sticky situations during all stages in the employment process. Throughout, Sack offers practical advice by using valuable checklists, charts, agreements and easy to follow recommendations. Chapters are helpfully divided into relevant headings, making it easy to find information you are looking for. The book also contains a glossary, index, and numerous valuable demand letters to send to enforce your rights. Easy to use, practical, up to date, The Employee Rights Handbook provides all the essential information employees need to protect themselves and fight back whatever their job or industry. If you work for a living, you need this book.

620 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Steven Mitchell Sack, The Employee’s Lawyer®, is a best-selling author of American legal guides for lay-people, particularly regarding issues surrounding employment law.

Reviews

[Anna del C. Dye · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since I love fantasy, I thought this book was going to be boring, but I wanted to give it a try anyways. It turns out that I was wrong. I found it down to earth and readable by any person regardless of the education they may have. Many law books are written so only a lawyer can understand the lingo, this book is not like that. It was easy enough that a person with English as a second language (me) could understand it.
Not only do I understand the wording but also its concepts. It clearly defines the legal and illegal questions that an employer might ask in an interview or even when a person is fired unfairly. Furthermore, it gives an example letter to state the complains on many situations and where to send such letters. Many times I have wanted to complain, but have never known where to send one, now I know.
It has step by step instructions on how to obtain a contract that will secure your job and what questions you should ask before you sign it. It talks of how to protect your rights on the job. Includes your benefits as a full time, part time and every other way that you can be employ.
It discusses what unions are and how they help you. It also states how and where to submit a complaint if they don’t represent you in a timely manner or full-heartedly.
There are examples of cases of how people handle different situation dealing with employers in an arrey of situations like lie detector, wiretapping, AIDS testing etc.
It has an extensive well of wisdom with many scenarios of how to protect yourself from any kind of problem at work. Discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblowing, breach of contract and many more points are cover in this book. I believe it is a very complete book and should be in every house in the USA. It will help you see how much better your life can be as an employee who knows what his job and rights are. It will empower the employee to secure his livelihood and many headaches will be avoided by using this book as a text for an everyday resource.