Designed for HR generalists with broad responsibility for HR administration, Thompson’s newest publication, the Guide to HR Administration, collects all the HR management information you need in one, easy-to-read looseleaf book. The Guide serves as a navigation tool for the HR practitioner who seeks to provide effective, legally compliant, business support services to employees and the organization.
Written by top employment law attorneys and the experienced editors of Thompson Publishing Group, Thompson’s HR Question and Answer Book is designed for HR professionals. While most of the other question and answer books deal with generic hiring and firing questions and answers, the HR Question and Answer Book covers the entire employment relationship, providing practical answers to over 275 real questions asked of legal consultants.
Thompson’s Investigating Sexual Harassment: A Practical Guide to Resolving Complaints, 4th Edition provides practical advice for employers on thoroughly investigating and resolving sexual harassment complaints to help employers understand their obligations under the evolving body sexual harassment law.
Understanding and Preventing Workplace Retaliation, 2nd Edition describes the many forms retaliation can take and provides practical advice for safeguarding against incidents. It discusses how routine personnel practices, such as giving references, conducting job interviews and maintaining personnel files, can lead to employer liability for retaliation. This softbound book also highlights significant court decisions and provides real-life examples of where employers acted prudently and where they failed to. It also offers sample anti-retaliation policy language.
Workplace Privacy – Real Answers and Practical Solutions, 2nd Edition examines employee privacy issues from a federal and state law perspective, explaining to employers how to balance their need to know what employees are doing with the employees’ rights and expectations of personal privacy on the job.
Written by members of the Worklaw Network and the trusted editors of Thompson Publishing Group, this 230-page book covers topics such as:
- Recruiting
- Conducting workplace investigations
- Controlling employee behavior (on and off work)
- Disclosing personnel and medical records
- Monitoring employee use of electronic technologies
Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide helps you investigate the pros and cons of offering pension, welfare and other benefits to employees’ domestic partners and guides you through the process of establishing and running a domestic partner benefits program.
Human Resources 2009: Answers to Your Top 25 Questions provides you with solutions to 25 of the most recent and pressing issues confronting HR departments including:
- Winning the Talent War – How to locate, inspire, and secure the best talent.
- Successful Wellness Programs – Learn how to improve employee health and reduce employer costs.
- Social Networking and Off-duty Conduct – Discover what is and is not permitted in response to information employers receive through social networking sites and about employees’ off-duty conduct
- Pharmacy Benefit Programs – How to make well-informed pharmacy benefit purchasing decisions in order to get the most value from the dollars spent.
- And so much more, click here to check out all 25 topics covered.
Designed to help you maximize compliance while minimizing business interruption, Thompson’s Employer’s Guide to Military Leave and Compliance, 4th Edition clarifies the legal and logistic complexities of USERRA.