Oct. 2, 2019 – Wondering about ban-the-box legislation or Wisconsin’s Social Media Protection Act? How about OSHA developments or HIPAA rules and procedures?

Get the most recent updates in statutory and case law involving workplace issues with Wisconsin Employment Law, a rich resource from the State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE® now in its seventh edition.

This three-volume treatise, first published in 1994, is the culmination of the combined efforts of more than 25 attorney-authors from Wisconsin law firms and state agencies and more than 50 employment law experts who reviewed the original book.

Assistance in Protecting Your Client’s Rights

Wisconsin Employment Law opens with an overview of major state and federal employment laws. Major topics covered include hiring and firing, wages and hours, employee benefits, occupational safety and health, workers’ compensation, and unemployment insurance. Intensely litigated areas of employment law, such as wrongful discharge, discrimination, and noncompetition agreements, are discussed in detail.

This latest edition reflects the most recent developments in statutory and case law, including emerging issues in the realms of labor unions and arbitration and employee background checks. The seventh edition also includes a revised chapter dedicated to employment issues specifically relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. Wisconsin Employment Law also discusses federal employment law, providing guidance on both federal preemption and choosing the appropriate forum.

Wisconsin Employment Law helps you determine whether a public-sector employee violated your client’s rights under recent “ban-the-box” legislation by illegally inquiring about your client’s conviction record in the application process. It helps you discover what your client’s rights and responsibilities are with regard to employment applicants’ usernames, passwords, or other such information.

As with all State Bar of Wisconsin books, Wisconsin Employment Law takes an objective, neutral, and balanced approach, exploring both employer and employee perspectives and addressing employee claims as well as employer defenses. Inside, you’ll find:

• the most recent Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and commission decisions and guidance on rules relating to safety and health standards;

• changes to employer safety recordkeeping requirements;

• new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance on workplace safety incentive programs; and

• post-incident drug testing;

• and more.

Concerned with privacy issues? Wisconsin Employment Law contains an updated discussion of HIPAA and other federal and state privacy laws relating to disclosure of medical records.

Gain More In-depth Guidance

Because of the special need for focused, in-depth resources, the State Bar has spun off three chapters in Wisconsin Employment Law into individual books, complete with appendices specific to their topics. These are:

• Rose Ann Wasserman’s A Guide to Wisconsin Employment Discrimination Law has long been a mainstay in this demanding area of practice, helping sort through the alphabet soup of state and federal agencies and legislation and clarifying procedures and burdens of proof at each stage.

• Hiring and Firing in Wisconsin, by veteran Wisconsin attorneys Robert K. Sholl, Bradden C. Backer, and Peter L. Albrecht, deals with every aspect of finding, keeping, and discharging employees, from initial interviews through termination, from recruiting to references, from drug testing to due process.

• Coming from an author with nearly 30 years of employment law experience in both government and private practice, James Chiolino’s Wisconsin Wages and Hours Handbook is the place to turn when taking on any wage and hour issue, whether it involves minimum wage, overtime, child labor, or seasonal workers.

Indexed to stand alone, these publications are compact enough to fit into a briefcase, ensuring that the right knowledge is at hand whenever and wherever it’s needed.

How to Order

Wisconsin Employment Law is available both in print and online via Books UnBound®, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s interactive online library. The print book costs $235 for members and $295 for nonmembers.

Hiring and Firing in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Wages and Hours Handbook, and AGuide to Wisconsin Employment Discrimination Law are also available in print for $95 for members and $125 for nonmembers.

Annual subscriptions to Books UnBound®, the State Bar’s interactive online library, start at $175 per title and $869 for the full library (single-user prices; call for law-firm pricing).

For more information or to place an order, visit the WisBar Marketplace or call the State Bar at (800) 728-7788 or (608) 257-3838.