Family responsibilities discrimination—bias against workers based on their responsibilities to care for family members—is rapidly becoming a 21st‐century workplace concern. Employers who harass, pass over for promotion, or terminate workers because such workers care for children, spouses, elderly pa
Job applicants and preemployment agreements: what employment counselors need to know
✍ Scribed by Barlow Soper; C. W. Von Bergen; William T. Mawer; Alison N. Von Bergen; Gary T. Rosenthal
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1008 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-0787
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
U.S. society is becoming increasingly litigious. Nowhere is this more evident than in the employment process, where preemployment agreements for job applicants are becoming more common. Preemployment agreements require applicants to accept certain terms or provisions before they are offered a position. In this article, the authors describe types of preemployment contracts and legal issues associated with them and present attorney‐selected sample cases to assist employment counselors to better prepare their clients for addressing this legal phenomenon.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Perimenopause, which recently has been recognized as separate j -o m menopause, afects approximately 22 million US. women. It is a time when women are at greater risk f i r emotional, relationship, and sexual probkms. The authors describe the symptoms ofperimenopause, disms the resuIting psychosocia
The following article was written by Daniel L. Hovland, J.D., a partner and tdul attorney with the law firm of Smith Bakko & Hovland, Bismarck, ND. He specidires in medical malpractice defense, personal iniury/products liability, employment law, and insurance defense.