Wisconsin Employer's Guide, 14th Ed.
With Authority Comes Responsibility

   
ISBN: 9780735508576

Format: Looseleaf in Binder
Last Updated: February 2011

Do you work in a position where you must hire, manage or supervise employees? If so, the Wisconsin Employer's Guide from Blue Gavel Press can provide you with a solid foundation of knowledge regarding employment law. This guide is a vital tool for business owners, supervisors, managers, and human resources professionals.
   
The Wisconsin Employer's Guide allows you to make informed decisions so that you can comply with state and federal laws and avoid civil and criminal penalties. It boils down state and federal laws to help you to understand your legal responsibilities.
   
Free of legal-speak, this easy-to-use guide offers clear explanations of today’s complex employment laws, regulations, and court decisions. Hyperlinks at the end of each chapter will lead you to additional online information. The guide is regularly updated with the most current information available.
    
Topics covered in the guide include Hiring; Managing Employees and Personnel Costs; Termination of Employment; Health and Safety; Employment Discrimination; Wages, Hours, and Child Labor; Employee Benefits and Leave; Personnel Records; Workplace Privacy; and Unions and Government Contractors.
      

The Wisconsin Employer's Guide also includes discussion of these and other issues:
  

· Discussion of Wisconsin law regarding the misclassification of employees as independent contractors.

· Updated section on prevailing wage requirements under Wisconsin law, including a new law requiring the payment of prevailing wages on publicly funded private construction projects.

· Updated sections on Wisconsin laws regarding workplace smoking regulations, employment discrimination, wages and hours, family and medical leave, recordkeeping requirements, and more.

· New Wisconsin law banning text messaging and composing or sending e-mails while driving.

· New section discussing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which dramatically increases the legal responsibilities of employers with respect to employee health care.

· Federal immigration laws, including verification of Social Security numbers, verifying employment eligibility, sanctions for hiring undocumented workers, types of visas and the labor certification process for hiring foreign workers, special requirements for government contractors, and more.

· Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations covering personal protective equipment standards, proposed changes to the Hazard Communication Standard, and the new Severe Violator Enforcement Program, which penalizes employers for willful, repeated, or failure-to-abate violations.

· Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding employee privacy and electronic communications, arbitration agreements, and more.

· New federal law requiring employers to provide break time and a quiet place for nursing mothers to express breast milk.

· Department of Defense regulations expanding whistleblower protections for government contractors.