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Introduction #1
by Ross Runkel at LawMemo

This week Ross' Employment Law Blog begins publishing a series of about 60 short essays on Employment Law. I'll talk about hot topics like sexual harassment and genetic testing, plus some boring (yet crucial) topics like statutes of limitations and remedies.

This is a new thing for me. Usually I comment on current court cases. (I'll continue doing that, too.) I'm looking forward to Employment Law 101, and hope you'll join me three times a week.

Some of the topics I'll be discussing:

• Sources of employment law
• Employment at-will
• Just cause under a collective bargaining agreement
• Employment contracts - express, implied, oral, written
• Handbooks and policy documents
• Promissory estoppel
• Good faith and fair dealing
• Discharge in violation of public policy
• Constructive discharge
• Whistleblowing
• Discrimination
• Disparate treatment
• Employee's prima facie case
• Employer's non-discriminatory reason
• Pretext
• Mixed motive
• BFOQ - Bona fide occupational qualification
• Disparate impact
• Discrimination because of sex
• Discrimination because of race or color
• Discrimination because of national origin
• Discrimination because of religion
• Discrimination because of age
• Discrimination because of a disability
• Duty to reasonably accommodate a disability
• Discrimination because of union activity
• Discrimination because of sexual orientation
• Harassment - Sex, race, etc.
• Retaliation
• Remedies
• EEOC procedures
• Statutes of limitations
• Family and medical leaves
• Libel and slander
• Non-competition agreements
• Trade secrets
• Ownership of inventions
• Drug testing
• Genetic testing
• Surveillance and monitoring
• Wage and hours laws
• Arbitration under a collective bargaining agreement
• Arbitration under an individual agreement
• Federal Arbitration Act
• Compelling arbitration
• Unconscionable arbitration agreements
• Court review of an arbitration award

Coming next: Sources of employment law: Employment Law 101: #2

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