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Mayfield K: Understanding Federal
Employment Law

Understanding Federal Employment Law

A Guide for Federal Employees and Their Attorneys

Stay fully compliant with California's fast-changing employment laws and reduce workplace risk with the official SHRM annual guide for employers, HR professionals, and employment law practitioners.California Employment Law 2027 is the latest annual edition of the bestselling compliance resource for HR managers, business owners, people leaders, supervisors, employment lawyers, and compliance professionals who need practical guidance on navigating California's complex and constantly evolving employment regulations.California remains one of the most legally challenging environments for employers, with employment laws that are extensive, highly technical, and frequently updated. Even minor compliance mistakes can lead to costly penalties, class action lawsuits, and significant litigation exposure. Written by labor and employment lawyer James J. McDonald, Jr., this official SHRM guide provides authoritative, practical advice to help employers both inside and outside California stay informed, compliant, and confident in their day-to-day employment decisions.You'll learn how to: - Stay compliant with new minimum pay thresholds and Equal Pay Act obligations - Navigate expanded leave rights, Paid Family Leave updates, and sick-leave requirements - Understand new restrictions on "stay or pay" employment contracts - Manage expanded pay-data reporting requirements and avoid mandatory penalties - Implement compliant employee data-handling, workplace communication, and recordkeeping practices Updated annually to reflect the latest legislative, regulatory, and workplace developments, this trusted guide translates complex employment law into clear, actionable guidance that employers, HR teams, and legal advisors can apply immediately. Whether you oversee HR compliance, manage a growing workforce, support multi-state operations, or advise leadership teams on workplace policy and legal risk, this book helps you strengthen compliance processes, reduce exposure, and make informed employment decisions with confidence.Themes include: California employment law, HR compliance, labor law, employment litigation risk, Equal Pay Act, leave management, pay-data reporting, workplace regulation, employer risk management, employment policy, SHRM

The SHRM Guide for Employers

California Employment Law 2027

Maritime and Transport Law Library

Responsibility Accountability Maritime Law examines the phenomenon of criminalisation which confronts the Master in their professional conduct, both in terms of Flag State and Port State rights and obligations. The fault lines of criminalisation, which go to the heart of the question, demand an understanding of how the concept of criminal justice has evolved to impose accountability on the Master, in circumstances which had not been crimes before.Since this book was first published, the maritime world has changed dramatically, requiring a new understanding of responsibility and accountability before the Master can make rational decisions to respond to the risk of criminalisation. While the basic theory of accountability for criminalisation and the sources of law provide the foundation, this second edition presents a new introduction to summarise the necessity for changes in structure in order to define the pre-existing law with which the Master must comply, acknowledging the re-emergence of risk in the Gulf in 2026, and the foreseeable emergence of risk in the Arctic as geopolitical pressures create uncertainty as to who will assert jurisdictional control in the management of merchant shipping in this region. The Sources of Law chapter has been expanded to address risk management in the context of current geopolitical turmoil, balancing company commitments with the safety of the ship and crew. New content includes detention of Masters and crew, the International Convention on Arrest of Ships, universal jurisdiction, and relevant case studies such as the M/T Heroic Idun.The book's format meets the needs of lawyers, academics and maritime professionals, with the aim of analysing the character of criminalisation to determine the features which characterise the phenomenon in Port and Flag State contexts; it interrogates the aim to define the nature of criminalisation and identifies the constituent problems in such criminal accountability. Each chapter relies heavily on case studies to illustrate how the laws which reflect national policy underpinning those priorities are applied in practice. This structure enables an understanding of the problems in the criminal process, with a view to offering options for solutions.The book is directly relevant to a broad range of parties which includes lawyers, academics, P &amp; I clubs, seafarers, shipowners, managers and agents, and national and international seafaring unions.The current law and cases have been verified up to June 2026.

Criminalisation of the Ship’s Master

Responsibility and Accountability in Maritime Law

UK Employment Law in Practice offers a practitioner-led examination of how employment law operates inside organisations, under pressure, and through real decision-making.
Written from an employee relations and governance perspective, this book moves beyond legal theory to focus on how tribunals assess fairness, reasonableness, evidence, and judgement in practice. It is designed for HR professionals and business leaders who are required to make defensible employment decisions in complex, time-pressured environments.
Rather than presenting employment law as a set of rules to memorise, the book explains how legal risk accumulates across the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding through performance management, grievances, whistleblowing, redundancy, and exit. It examines where organisations commonly create exposure, how informal practices undermine defensibility, and how decision-making quality influences tribunal outcomes.
The 2026 edition reflects the UK employment law framework, tribunal reasoning, and legislative direction of travel as at early 2026. It incorporates recent developments affecting flexible working, whistleblowing, sexual harassment, equality, and governance, while maintaining a practical focus on principles that remain constant despite legal change.
Written by a senior HR and Employee Relations practitioner with over twenty years of experience advising organisations in the UK and internationally, this book is a working reference for those responsible for applying employment law in real workplaces.
This title forms part of the Coaching Quotient® series.

UK Employment Law in Practice

Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law

This book delves into the legal and labour history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq to explore the role international law and its institutions played in Iraq's state formation. Focusing on a turbulent period in global and Middle East history, it shows how the case of Iraq became a laboratory for experimentation with the concept of sovereignty by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in Geneva. This resulted in the development of a doctrine of 'semiperipheral sovereignty' to justify Iraq's independence from the Mandate process. This novel doctrine and its operation within the provisions of the 1930 Anglo- Iraq Treaty ensured the maintenance of British dominance over Iraq, especially to safeguard the extraction and transportation of its valuable oil resources to Western markets. The book traces how this legal doctrine impacted the everyday lives of working class Iraqis. It explores the governance of the extraterritorial spaces of capitalist accumulation and labour exploitation, in particular the Iraq Petroleum Company oil fi elds, the Iraq State Railways and the Port of Basra. It goes on to detail how the oil, railway and port workers led by the Iraqi Communist Party effectively organised themselves into a nationalist revolutionary labour movement. They waged an anti-colonial struggle against these imperial legal structures to improve their lot, leading up to the 1948 Wathba, the 1953 Intifada, and ultimately the July Revolution of 1958, which upended the British-sponsored monarchy. Spanning various international archives and Arabic primary source materials, this book offers an example of a social, legal and labour history written from below, centering ordinary working peoples' agency in the historiography of international law. Drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and Marxist methodologies, it emphasises the signifi cance of the semi-periphery in the making of the international legal order.

Investigates the legal and labour history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq to explore the role international law played in Iraq’s state formation.

International Law, Labour Struggle, and the Making of Iraq

Manufacturing Sovereignty

This book is the first comprehensive academic treatment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and employment rights, which has a global vocation demonstrated by having been ratified by 173 States since it was adopted in 1966. Workers' rights need protection and reinforcement. To achieve this aim, international human rights standards can play an important role. The ICESCR is the most important global UN instrument in this respect. It covers a wide range of employment rights, including the right to strike, and has global application. But it is not sufficiently developed and used, and national implementation often needs improvement. Part 1 of the book analyses general issues related to the Covenant, such as context, development, challenges, influences at the global and regional levels, interpretation and procedural elements. Part 2 deals with the specific provisions which are directly linked to the employment relation. The book is based on a thorough analysis, mainly, but not exclusively, of the case law of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), that is monitoring the national implementation of the Covenant. Together, the chapters in this book will empower academics and practitioners in labour law to find answers to relevant and practical problems in order to better enforce and improve workers' rights. The book is the result of a project by the 'Transnational Trade Union Rights' experts Network (TTUR), linked to the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation

This book examines the relationship between the law and collective bargaining in the modern world of work. It brings together theoretical, normative and practical perspectives from around the world to rethink the nexus between the two institutions of work regulation and labour market governance in the face of unprecedented social and economic changes. Recognised as a core international labour standard in many countries, collective bargaining is a fundamental institution of post-war democracies. Despite this, traditional collective bargaining systems inherited from the 20th-century industrial era are under pressure. The market-constitutive function of industrial relations institutions has lost traction, while statutory law - once responsive to collective bargaining - struggles to cope with fluid work arrangements and fragmented labour markets. Drawing on a tradition of labour law scholarship grounded in legal pluralism, the book explores how legislators and industrial relations institutions are reshaping the law-collective bargaining nexus to cope with these challenges, in search for a renewed vision of labour governance: a vision that recognises law and collective bargaining as institutions of co-regulation, legal imagination, and social progress.

Sources and Patterns of Regulation in the Modern World of Work

The Law and Collective Bargaining

A Must-Have Legal Guide for Employers, Managers, and HR Professionals Federal and state employment laws have seen a raft of changes in recent years, from family and medical leave rights to workplace safety and employee privacy. For employers, staying on top of these changes is essential to running an efficient, fair workplace--and heading off expensive lawsuits. The Employer's Legal Handbook covers all the employment law issues you need to know about, including the latest rules and best practices when it comes to: <ul> <li>applications, interviews and hiring</li> <li>workplace health and safety</li> <li>wage and hour laws</li> <li>remote workers</li> <li>health care and other employee benefits</li> <li>employee taxes and payroll</li> <li>family and medical leave</li> <li>employee privacy</li> <li>illegal harassment and discrimination, and</li> <li>downsizing and layoffs.</li> </ul> The 18th edition includes updated employment laws for all 50 states and explains the latest developments in employment law, including the rise of remote work and the use of AI in the workplace.

How to Manage Your Employees & Workplace

The Employer's Legal Handbook

The Right to Strike Reimagined

A Practical Guide to Employment Discrimination Complaints

Navigating the EEOC

Building Pathways to Job Creation: A Case Study from West Bengal

Youth Entrepreneurship in Bhutan

Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave

Employee Competition

A rich history of the development of American minimum wage policy with lessons for today. Despite broad popular support for robust minimum wage policy, the federal minimum wage is now worth less--in real, inflation-adjusted terms--than at any time since 1949. While some state and local governments have stepped in to fill this void, others have declined to set any minimum wage standard at all. Traversing more than 100 years of history, Raising the Floor examines how interest groups have navigated the highly decentralized American political system to shape the development of federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. In her analysis, Shanna Rose highlights the importance of American federalism. She argues that because federalism creates multiple arenas for policy change, interest groups have sought out the sites most conducive to their goals, shifting their lobbying efforts as new obstacles and opportunities emerge. Federalism has facilitated minimum wage policymaking by fostering policy experimentation, learning, and diffusion across states and by allowing state and local governments to overcome gridlock and status-quo biases at the national level. Yet, federalism has also been an instrument for containment, enabling those opposed to minimum wage increases to litigate and preempt local-level laws. With rich historical chapters that illuminate different phases in the development of today's patchwork of wage standards, Raising the Floor is a deep examination of the past, present, and future of American minimum wage law.

Federalism and the Politics of Us Minimum Wage Policy

Raising the Floor

Understanding Federal Employment Law

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