Employee Rights Handbook: Effective Legal Strategies to Protect Your Job from Interview to Pink Slip (Law As It Applies to Other Pro) - Hardcover

Sack, Steven Mitchell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0963630679 ISBN 13: 9780963630674

Publisher: Legal Strategies Inc, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Steven Mitchell Sack, The Employee's Lawyer ®, is a best selling author, lecturer and practicing attorney. He is the author of nineteen books, many in multiple editions. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of SUNY at Stony Brook and Boston College Law School, Mr. Sack has maintained a private law practice in New York City handling labor and employment matters for thirty years. His comments or the rights of fired workers have been reported in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and BusinessWeek. He has made numerous appearances on radio and television including Oprah, CNN, and CNBC's Steals and Deals. He serves as General Counsel for many trade associations, including the National Association of Independent Publisher's Representatives (NAIPR) since 1988. Mr. Sack hosted a national radio talk show for five years on jobs and careers on the i.e. america radio network and is the president of Legal Strategies Publications.

From the Back Cover

Reviews for THE EMPLOYEE RIGHTS HANDBOOK:
"Sack looks seemingly everywhere job discrimination might lurk and where special accommodations, if any, sbould be made." (New York Times).
"Steven Mitchell Sack discusses what is and isn t legal is the workplace." (Publisher s Weekly).
"Sack s excellent book covers employment rights ranging from the initial interview to negotiating a termination. People who plan ahead will know how to negotiate and get more employment benefits." (Nashville Tennessean).
"The Employee Rights Handbook may very well be the authoritative text on the pitfalls of being an employee. Sack has managed to take all of this detailed, complicated, and relatively dry information and make it very readable and interesting. The book is well worth the money regardless of your occupation and locale."(Career Corner).
"Sack offers tips that all workers should use to empower themselves. If there s one message driving Sack through his work, it s know your rights." (Detroit News).
"Simply written and easy to digest, this book may save you some serious money in determining what your rights are in the workplace. If you feel you have been discriminated against, want to know what the grounds are for an illegal firing, or are unsure of what kind of lawyer to see if you are planning to sue, you should get a copy." (New Woman Magazine).

Endorsements: Endorsements for STEVEN MITCHELL SACK:
"Attorney Sack offers an impressive amount of useful information." (Library Journal).
"Noted labor attorney Steven Mitchell Sack provides invaluable information for all working women on their job rights and workplace issues. He is a gold mine!" (Good Morning America).
"If you are on the verge of being laid off, or just worry about it, author and labor attorney Steven Mitchell Sack will help you understand your rights before the pink slip arrives." (Nashville Tennessean).
"Sack is a kind of lone ranger in barrister s garb who has real passion when it comes to workplace rights." (Philadelphia Jewish Exponent).
"Attorney and author Steven M. Sack helps workers navigate the employment-law minefield." (Columbus Dispatch).

Edition details

• Publisher: Legal Strategies Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963630679
• ISBN 13: 9780963630674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 620