Employment Law for Human Resource Practice

by David J. Walsh

As a future manager, you want to know what will be important to you in your upcoming career. David Walsh's Employment Law for Human Resource Practice explains the major issues and rules of employment law and what these mean for human resource practice in a way that makes sense for businesspeople. His approach, which follows the employment life cycle from the hiring process, to managing employees, to terminating employment, is clear and easy to understand. Always conscious of pointing out what will be important to you in the future, this book includes clippings of current news stories and events, hypothetical situations, and real cases to help you understand how the law applies to each stage of employment. Practical advice for what to do as a manager is conveniently summarized at the end of each chapter. Employment Law for Human Resource Practice gives you all you need to succeed in class and contribute in real world employment settings.

Genres: Nonfiction, School

736 pages, Hardcover

Published April 22, 2009

Reviews

[Philip Miles]

I laughed. I cried. I imposed it on 150 Penn State students.

[Nidal Khaznadar · Rating 3 out of 5]

it is a huge book with a lot of practical tools

[Tawsha Brosius · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am reading this book for my employment law class as a HRM major. I find it a helpful book however I feel as though it is sexist and I have found this the case in a few other of my textbooks. "What does an Employee decide to do when she believes that her rights were violated?" this is a quote from the book on page 14 of a heading for a paragraph discussing what employees, in general, decide to do when their rights have been violated not a specific example of a female. With this quote and many other incidences in this book when the author is discussing no specific employee, they will say she instead of they leading me to feel the author believes that a female will more often have problems in the employee/ employer relationship than a man (sexist). For this book having Human Resource in the name you would think the author would understand that discrimination or other issues can be the result of; age, race, disabilities, and many more factors not just gender.

[Ned Hanlon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean... it's a a text book... a good text book actually... but still... what do you want me to say?

[lyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this for one of my grad school classes and I really enjoyed getting to enhance my knowledge on all things employee relations based within HR as this is within my career.

[Rachel Aranda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have greatly enjoyed learning from this book. It looked like a big black and white textbook with no pictures when I got it in the mail, but it became my best friend for my Employment Law class. The information was thoroughly explained and easy to understand. There are lots of interesting court decisions over important cases that help make the lessons from the chapter applicable to real life. I felt able to defend my arguments and explain the laws covered in each chapter. This is by far one of the best textbooks I have ever used in my college career.