50 Employment Laws in 50 States, 2013 Edition

Now you can INSTANTLY discover your legal obligations under the 50 most important employment laws in each of the 50 states.

50 Employment Laws in 50 States, 2013 Edition is the revolutionary guidebook that puts ALL the most need-to-know employment law information -- for each of the 50 states -- right at your fingertips.

Imagine the time and frustration you'll save with this authoritative, instant-information reference. In just seconds, you'll zero in on the precise information you need whenever you must:

• Create a new policy
• Verify the compliance of an existing policy
• Expand your operations
• Audit your procedures
• Support recommendations to senior management
• Advise colleagues at field offices, branches, and stores.
• Stay comfortably up-to-date with increasingly complicated state employment laws

This quick-reference guide puts the expertise of the nationwide Employers Counsel Network right at your fingertips. The top-flight attorneys in the Network focus almost exclusively on defending employers and write the Employment Law Letter for their state. They have applied their valuable time and resources to making this side-by-side comparison of employer obligations the definitive reference.

Buyers' Benefit: You are enrolling in an automatic update program and will receive annual updates sent on a 90-day approval basis and billed separately. You may cancel this automatic update program at any time.

50 Employment Laws in 50 States, 2013 Edition

Now you can INSTANTLY discover your legal obligations under the 50 most important employment laws in each of the 50 states.

50 Employment Laws in 50 States, 2013 Edition is the revolutionary guidebook that puts ALL the most need-to-know employment law information -- for each of the 50 states -- right at your fingertips.

Imagine the time and frustration you'll save with this authoritative, instant-information reference. In just seconds, you'll zero in on the precise information you need whenever you must:

• Create a new policy
• Verify the compliance of an existing policy
• Expand your operations
• Audit your procedures
• Support recommendations to senior management
• Advise colleagues at field offices, branches, and stores.
• Stay comfortably up-to-date with increasingly complicated state employment laws

This quick-reference guide puts the expertise of the nationwide Employers Counsel Network right at your fingertips. The top-flight attorneys in the Network focus almost exclusively on defending employers and write the Employment Law Letter for their state. They have applied their valuable time and resources to making this side-by-side comparison of employer obligations the definitive reference.

With 50 Employment Laws in 50 States, 2013 Edition, you get the exact guidance you need whenever you need to understand ANY state law concerning:

Automatic Updates Keep Your Guide Current

Buyers' Benefit: You are enrolling in an automatic update program and will receive annual updates sent on a 90-day approval basis and billed separately. You may cancel this automatic update program at any time.

50 Employment Laws in 50 States is prepared by leading attorneys, many of them members of the Employers Counsel Network, a nationwide affiliation of prestigious law firms representing management in employment law matters. Their contributions are edited by attorney Holly Jones.

Holly K. Jones

Holly Jones is the Managing Attorney Editor at BLR. She is also the editor of HR Guide to Employment Law: A Practical Compliance Reference and Employers State Law Alert, the monthly resource for summaries of significant employment legislation. She has also written and edited several additional publications on labor and employment law, including Wage & Hour Compliance: Practical Solutions for HR, The Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook, and several Mastering HR reports.

Following is a list of those who were most instrumental in the completion of this book. We thank them for their continued perseverance in this project.

• Alabama: Lehr Middlebrooks & Vreeland, P.C.
• Alaska: Perkins Coie LLP
• Arizona: Ford & Harrison LLP
• Arkansas: Jack Nelson Jones Jiles & Gregory, P.A.
• California: Freeland Cooper & Foreman LLP
• Colorado: Holland & Hart LLP
• Connecticut: Jorden Burt LLP
• Delaware: Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
• Florida: Harper Gerlach PL
• Georgia: Ford & Harrison LLP
• Hawaii: Cades Schutte LLP
• Idaho: Farley Oberrecht West Harwood & Burke, P.A.
• Illinois: Ford & Harrison LLP
• Indiana: Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
• Iowa: Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C.
• Kansas: Foulston Siefkin LLP
• Kentucky: Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
• Louisiana: Jones Walker
• Maine: Brann & Isaacson
• Maryland: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P.
• Massachusetts: Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C.
• Michigan: Vercruysse Murray & Calzone, P.C.
• Minnesota: Felhaber, Larson, Fenlon and Vogt, P.A.
• Mississippi: Jones Walker
• Missouri: Armstrong Teasdale LLP
• Montana: Holland & Hart LLP
• Nebraska: Erickson & Sederstrom, P.C.
• Nevada: Holland & Hart LLP
• New Hampshire: Sulloway & Hollis, P.L.L.C.
• New Jersey: Day Pitney LLP
• New Mexico: Tinnin Law Firm
• New York: Bond Schoeneck & King
• North Carolina: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
• North Dakota: Vogel Law Firm
• Ohio: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
• Oklahoma: McAfee & Taft
• Oregon: Perkins Coie LLP
• Pennsylvania: Saul Ewing LLP
• Rhode Island: Little, Medeiros, Kinder, Bulman & Whitney, P.C.
• South Carolina: McNair Law Firm, P.A.
• South Dakota: Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun, P.C.
• Tennessee: Miller & Martin PLLC
• Texas: Constangy Brooks & Smith
• Utah: Kirton McConkie
• Vermont: Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C.
• Virginia: DiMuroGinsberg, P.C.
• Washington: Perkins Coie LLP
• West Virginia: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
• Wisconsin: Axley Brynelson, LLP
• Wyoming: Holland & Hart LLP

• Federal: Fortney & Scott, LLC
• Canada: Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP