Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination and Employment Law

• Considers the threshold question regarding employee vs. independent contractor • Provides complete analysis of Title VII, ADEA and ADA • Looks at laws that prevent employers from discouraging protected activity • Explores regulatory efforts to eliminate or curb unfair employment decisions • Reviews minimum terms laws to establish regulations for employment contracts • Examines procedural design of regulatory systems for employment relationships This book provides complete analysis of laws designed to protect individuals from employment decisions that affect them unfairly because of an immutable status. Also considers the extent to which the law prevents employers from discouraging activity that our society highly values or seeks to protect. Considers the enactment of minimum terms laws to establish regulatory floors for private negotiation of employment contracts. Takes up the procedural design of regulatory systems for employment relationships and questions of coordination of multiple systems.