Work Law: Cases and Materials

This casebook endeavors to present basic materials on each system of labor market regulation.
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The fifth edition of Work Law: Cases and Materials incorporates new developments in a variety of areas:

  • Streamlined and updated coverage of the boundaries of the employment relationship and developments in the post-pandemic labor market;
  • Coverage of federal and state regulatory efforts to rein in non-compete agreements and a new case on trade secrets (Allstate Insurance Co. v. Fougere);
  • Streamlined and updated materials addressing current issues surrounding employee privacy;
  • Materials on emerging algorithmic management practices and their implications across different areas of work law;
  • Updated coverage of cases and regulation affecting employee speech, and new problems on public employee speech and on the academic freedom of university professors;
  • Updated coverage of protections against sex discrimination, including the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia;
  • Updated treatment of the Fair Labor Standards Act, including a new case on off-the-clock work (Perry v. City of New York) ; and
  • Updated materials on arbitration of employment disputes, including coverage of the Supreme Court's treatment of the transportation exemption (Saxon v. Southwest Airlines, Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park Street).

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Part One Introduction: Regulating Work
Chapter 1 Origins
Chapter 2 The Contemporary Era —Shifts in The Demographics and Structure of Work

Part Two Balancing Employer And Employee Interests: Individual Versus Collective Responses
Chapter 3 Contracting for Individual Job Security
Chapter 4 Public Policy Protections for Individual Job Security
Chapter 5 Collective Job Security
Chapter 6 Employee Mobility
Chapter 7 Dignitary Interests
Chapter 8 Employee Voice

Part Three Freedom from Discrimination Versus Flexibility
Chapter 9 Employment Discrimination Law
Chapter 10 Challenges to Equality in a Diversifying Workplace

Part Four Government Intervention for the Public Good: Legislating a Safety Net
Chapter 11 The Regulation of Wages and Hours
Chapter 12 Health and Pension Plans —ERISA Regulation
Chapter 13 Health and Safety

Part Five Systems of Justice: Public Versus Private, Collective Versus Individual
Chapter 14 Arbitration of Workplace Disputes
Chapter 15 Self-Regulation

Table of Cases

Index