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Learning Employment Law provides concise and clear text, examples, and case excerpts that empower students to engage in sophisticated problem-solving regarding the most pressing issues in contemporary workplace law. The book succinctly reviews the historical backdrop of each issue to ensure that students gain the wider understanding necessary to effectively address contemporary problems. The book is comprised of 44 independent Lessons that can be structured by the professor to highlight different themes. Students will be exposed to common law and regulatory regimes, with a focus on the new workplace challenges of the platform economy, outsourced labor, and immigrant labor. Students will gain a sophisticated understanding of the challenges facing lawyers in this rapidly developing area of the law.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Learning Series
Publication Date: 07/26/2024

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Lesson 1: light textual editing
Lesson 2: extensive textual editing; substituting new major cases, adding new problems
Lesson 3: significant textual editing and new readings added
Lesson 4: textual editing regarding recent changes in law; revising and updating readings
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Lesson 10: adding new section and cases on appeal of arbitration awards
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Lesson 18: significant editing of text and additional editing of primary case
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Lesson 30: significant textual editing and addition of primary readings
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Lesson 38: reposition chapter, textual editing
Lesson 39: light textual editing and reposition chapter
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