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do NOT use this as a textbook
The very first sentence of the Prologue of this book contains a grammatical error (it should be "principles," not "principals") and I am sorry to say that things don't get much better.I purchased this book as a text for an Employment Law class and it was terrible; I quit using it halfway through the course and recommended the instructor find another text.The author seems to think he's the most credible person in the world but, as someone who is also a human resources practitioner, I can assert from experience that many of his opinions (several of which are presented as "facts") are wrong.He clearly doesn't even understand what the field of human resources IS, and in many cases I found his tone very offensive. Hodgepodge of mismatched topics
Sovereign seems to skip around often in a half-hearted effort at being comprehensive.The cases are not very recent, despite the publication date, and the book has a definite lack of flow.It is almost as if theauthor threw together several mismatched segments and forgot to edit it forcomprehension and cohesiveness.

Adequate on the law; suffers from poor editing
I have to use this book as the text for a class I teach in Employment Law (i.e., non-collective-bargaining law) to students matriculating to a Master of Science Degree in Human Resources.The text adequately surveys the law, but suffers from terrible proofing and editing; it also needs an update, because the 1994 edition obviously was not written any later than early 1993, based on the omission of certain important U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1994 and since.The book also suffers from an extremely strong pro-management tone; a more balanced approach would serve the untutored reader better.There are better books, such as the ABA Guide, which I commend to potential readers of this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Financial    2. Business/Economics    3. Discrimination in employment    4. Employee rights    5. Labor & Employment    6. Labor And Employment Law    7. Labor laws and legislation    8. Law    9. Law and legislation    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. Management - General    12. Management Science    13. United States    14. Business & Economics / Systems & Planning    15. Business law    16. Employment & labour law   

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Premiere text not aging gracefully
As a security professional and attorney with more than 30 years of experience, I have used this text in my graduate courses on security case law and security management for more than eight years with more than 400 students at two universities. The clarity of the author's text and the case-based format makes it an ideal text. K-Mart Law (i.e. The Rentacop's Bible)
According to editor David A. Maxwell, the role of subsidized law enforcement is becoming increasingly supplanted by private security personnel (primarily as a result of municipal tax dollars spreading too thin, but also as a buffer to litigation from citizens injured and/or victimized on private property), and as a result, the criminal justice system will be forced to engineer new legal paradigms to control these corporate spaces, what with our "public" environments becoming increasingly privatized (shopping malls, apartment buildings, condominiums, retail outlets, hotels, bars, restaurants, casinos, health care institutions), a postmodern Main Street, fragmented and decentralized.What the industry needs (and what Maxwell provides) are a series of discourses that explore these new legal dangers and issues of accountability, providing a code of ethics for underpaid, underrespected "rentacops" who nevertheless find themselves bearing the brunt of municipal police functionality, badge-wearing "civilians" with limited arrest and investigatory powers.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Cases    4. Civil Procedure    5. Industries - General    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Police, Private    8. Private Security    9. Private security services    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Industries    12. English law: criminal law    13. Private, property, family law    14. Security services    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    3. Employers' liability    4. Industrial Safety    5. Industrial hygiene    6. Labor & Employment    7. Law    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Reference    11. United States    12. Occupational / industrial health & safety    13. Public health & safety law    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. General    3. Health & Fitness    4. Humor    5. Industrial hygiene    6. Industrial safety    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Occupational Safety and Health    10. United States   

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Iron determination
Like some other reviewers I came across this book after seeing the movie North Country.The movie though is just good entertainment pulling at the heartstrings and very loosely based on the legal problems of single mother Lois Jenson.
A must read
A story of great courage and resolve, of working conditions beyond the pale, and the vicissitudes of the courts. Well written, in journalistic style, this is a page-turner, as well as being thoroughly researched, and factually accurate.

Class Action
This is by far one of the best books I have ever read. This is something our school kids should be required to read as well. The 2 ladies who wrote this book did an excellent job of telling Lois Jenson's real story. Her story, while tragic, needs to be told. The movie doesn't do this book justice. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Gender & the Law    2. Gender Studies    3. Labor & Employment    4. Labor And Employment Law    5. Legal History    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Sociology Of Women    9. Women's Studies - General    10. Social Science / Gender Studies   

Reviews (4)

Fairly good - Not excellent
I just took a college level class in which we used this book as the textbook.There is a lot of good information inside which provides a good introduction to the novice on how the process of collective bargaining works.It begins with the history of how it started and continues through the specific issues that collective bargaining entails.There is even a copy of the National Labor Relations Act in the back of the book.
Great Book
Great book for the novice negotiator or student.Current, easy to read, practical examples.

Concise & complete
The authors provide a complete & concise discussion of the process of collective bargaining within a general labor relations context. Many, current cases, tips from experts, and historical references help present the concepts. A solid text for the novice negotiator or interested student. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Collective Bargaining    3. Collective labor agreements    4. Entrepreneurship    5. Industrial And Labor Relations    6. Industrial relations    7. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    8. Law    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Negotiating    11. Political Science    12. Politics/International Relations    13. United States    14. Business & Economics / Negotiating   

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This Guide Has it All
This is a completele kit for making your company's own employee handbook. There is legal information, state specific information, resources to follow for your specific needs, and then, the best part of all, there is CD that comes with this that has everything you need already typed for you. All you have to do is insert the CD and save the files, which are in MS Word, and voila - you have it. The only thing you have to do is decide which policies you want for your company, fill in a few blanks, change the TOC and you are ready to print it out! A very practical and easy way to create your own employee handbook! I was quite impressed.

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
When my boss asked me to write an employee handbook I freaked. I had no idea where to start. This book gave me everything I needed to get what my boss wanted. Everyone was happy. This is the book you need. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Employee orientation    5. Employees    6. Human Resources & Personnel Management    7. Labor    8. Labor & Employment    9. Personnel And Human Resources Management    10. Training of   

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For the Discriminating Only
I'm a training specialist by trade, and I have taught Sexual Harassment Prevention and Equal Employment Opportunity classes for many years. This book allowed me to appear as a subject matter expert because I was able to offer more depth in specific cases and topics. If you're discriminating about your sources, I know you will buy this.

Useful
I read this book in order to survive a law class.I also used it when I had an interview with the Office of Civil Rights.This book may feel cursory but it covers a large array of material.For those who are constantly suspicious about facing discrimination in the workplace, it may be especially enlightening.Though I gave my copy to a friend not involved in the law, I do worry about it being misused by laypeople.For example, you could be blatantly discriminated against, and this book may point to cases that reflect your own situation.However, if you missed a statute of limitations or your employer doesn't have a sizeable number of workers, etc., your case may be a loser.Still, filing with local anti-discrimination office is supposed to be free and of no prejudice to the worker.Since this summarizes the everyday law, it is not a cute, easy read.But it is useful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Discrimination In Employment    3. Labor & Employment    4. Law    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. United States   

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Great reference for every educator and lawyer in education.
If I could have given this book 4 and a half stars I would have done so. The only complaint that I have about this tome is that many of the court cases that I am interested in are not printed in part or entirety in this book. I will have to go to the law library to get the rest of the information that I need. This book was not in my law classes, but rather in a class for school administrators. I am writing on and very interested in the legal history of education, and this was a great find for me. Not only does it give pertinent information about all educational law, but the specific references and legal issues are there for gender and race discrimination in schools, busing, special education, etc. Any teacher, researcher, or lawyer in this field cannot just pick up a book that is only on their area such as special education, because the full information is not there nor does it make sense out of context of legal history. In order to understand the reason why Congress and courts saw the need to coin a new law (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) rather than rely upon previous ammendments to other laws such as the Civil Rights Act and other education acts in the 1960's it is vital that the reader know the history and how those ammendments failed to guarantee educational rights for those with disabilities. This book is a vital reference that provides this information, the legal history, and it is well worth the money spent on it. Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration - General    2. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    3. Cases    4. Education    5. Education / Teaching    6. Educational    7. Educational law and legislatio    8. Educational law and legislation    9. General    10. United States    11. Education / General    12. Organization & management of education    13. Social law    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Discrimination    2. Discrimination in employment    3. Gender & the Law    4. Labor & Employment    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. United States    9. Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management    10. Central government    11. Employment & labour law    12. Law / Labor & Employment    13. Law-Discrimination    14. Law-Gender & the Law    15. Management & management techniques    16. USA   

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Awesome book!
This is an awesome book! It is so easy to read and understand. It is written so that anybody can understand it; it's not full of hard to understand legalese.

A compendium of articulate criticisms of the flaws
The FMLA: Understanding The Family And Medical Leave Act by attorney Will Aitchison is a compendium of articulate criticisms of the flaws in the complicated and questionably drafted Family And Medical Leave Act, as well as a detailed dissection and explanation of the act's purpose, applications, and meaning accessibly presented for both governmental policy mavens, corporate executives, and non-specialist general readers alike. Intended for employers and employees alike, The FMLA deftly describes legal terms of varying complexity in straightforward layman's prose, and gives a nod to common sense in helping readers understand the scope and ramifications of this important law. The FMLA is an invaluable resource which should be considered a core contribution to the reference collections of the legal, medical, governmental, and community advocacy organizations and groups. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Labor & Employment    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Non-Classifiable   

Subjects:  1. Collective labor agreements    2. Labor & Employment    3. Labor laws and legislation    4. Labor unions    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. United States   

Subjects:  1. Labor & Employment    2. Labor And Employment Law    3. Labor laws and legislation    4. Labor laws and legislation, In    5. Labor laws and legislation, International    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

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A Must-Have for University Administrators
Kaplin & Lee's "The Law of Higher Education (Third Edition)" was the required text for a graduate course, "Legal Aspects of Higher Education" and should be present on the bookshelf of any university administrator.The book's subtitle, "A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Making," is wholly accurate in describing the scope and utility of this massive tome (over 1,000 pages from cover to cover).
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Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Administration - General    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Institutions Of Higher Education    6. Law and legislation    7. Reference    8. School management and organiza    9. School management and organization    10. United States    11. Universities and colleges    12. Education / Administration    13. Higher & further education    14. Law as it applies to other professions    15. Social law    16. USA   

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Worthless after Feb 8,2006
Dear Worried Reader,
Thanks to Mr. Bove
The information in this book is easy to understand and extremely valuable. It saved my family thousands of dollars by helping me get Medicaid for my father.

Out of Date but Useful
Provides a useful outline of Medicare law but is out of date.For
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Subjects:  1. Estate planning    2. Finance    3. General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health Insurance    6. Health/Fitness    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Long-term care    10. Medicaid    11. Nursing Homes    12. Older people    13. Personal Finance - Financial Planning    14. Planning    15. Popular works    16. United States    17. Health & Fitness / General   

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Must Have Info
As the industry becomes more lawsuit happy, this book contains information any Administrator should know. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    3. Law    4. Law and legislation    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Long-term care facilities    7. Medical Law & Legislation    8. Nursing Home Care    9. Nursing Homes    10. United States    11. Medicine: General Issues   

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The Foundation of Labor Relations Practice
Hardin is to theoretical and strategic labor relations as Elkouri is to contract administration.It is the place my staff is instructed to start on any collective bargaining issue.Also as with Elkouri, it tries so hard to be balanced that neither management nor union regotiators may be able to find the hard edges they might be looking for.Its utility in the public sector depends on how similar the state or local bargaining law is to the National Labor Relations Act.If the bargaining duty language is similar to the NLRA, the public sector practitioner will find Hardin useful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Labor & Employment    3. Labor laws and legislation    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. National Labor Relations Act    7. National Labor Relations Board    8. United States    9. United States.   

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I think there are better books to use
This book is not for the person just getting an intiation into school law.It is too condense and only gives blurbs of the verdicts in each case by quoting the appellate and US supreme court judges which are oft times convoluted, the author leaves out an indepth explanation of the nuts and bolts.I refer to this book as the Reader's Digest version of school law.Also, the print is microscopic which is really hard on the eyes.

How good can it be?
...The book is well-written and contains important informationrelevant to school personnel, but it does not come in a titanium coverwith gold leaf pages.Can a student get a break?END

Well written about case subject
Law book need to be understood by the lay person that is not a lawyer, but those that are in some type of law need to be able to understand the law, an be able understand the common law. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Cases    3. Educational    4. Educational law and legislatio    5. Educational law and legislation    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Practical Guides    9. United States    10. Education   

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A Fantastic Resource for Students and Teachers of Counseling
The Doctor from Botswana, below, is exactly right, and this book is so superb in its organisation and function that it deserves more elucidation.
URGENT REQUEST
l am sorry to use this space for an entirely different purpose.l have been on the internet trying to find a book which l can recommend to my students who are doing a course, Legal Issues in Counselling, anda course l amteaching for the first time.l urgently need a copy of this book todetermine if it is suitable, in which case, the University will ordercopies for my students and for the library.Please, l would be very gratefulif you could respond immediately and if possible give me an idea of itstable of content.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil Procedure    2. Counseling    3. Counseling (Psychology)    4. Counselors    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Reference    10. Student counselors    11. United States   

Subjects:  1. Civil Procedure    2. Discrimination In Employment    3. Forensic statistics    4. Law and legislation    5. Mathematics    6. Probability & Statistics - General    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Statistical Methods In The Social Sciences    9. Statistical methods    10. United States    11. Mathematics / Statistics    12. Probability & statistics