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The Employee Rights Handbook, written by best-selling author Steven Mitchell Sack The Employee's Lawyer® is a comprehensive legal guide in simple English providing all the essential information workers need to protect themselves before, during and after their jobs have ended. Attorney Sack’s comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book is a first-aid kit to understanding one’s job rights, giving you the information and power to fight back, cut a deal if you are fired, and land firmly on your feet. The book advises how to be properly hired, steps to take if you resign or are fired, and how to enforce your on-the-job rights. Readers will learn how to anticipate and avoid common sticky situations during all stages in the employment process. Throughout, Sack offers practical advice by using valuable checklists, charts, agreements and easy-to-follow recommendations.

Chapters are helpfully divided into relevant headings making it easy to find information you are looking for. The book also contains a glossary, index, and numerous valuable demand letters to send to enforce your rights. Easy to use, practical, up-to-date, The Employee Rights Handbook provides all the essential information employees need to protect themselves and fight back, whatever their job or industry. If you work for a living, you need this book.

"A job is like a romance," notes Sack. "Companies woo applicants with promises of security, fulfillment, riches. Then, when the honeymoon is over, even highly qualified people find themselves being treated unfairly. Many don’t receive promised benefits such as year-end bonuses, commissions, health insurance, vacation pay and overtime. Others are fired without cause or notice through no fault of their own. The Employee Rights Handbook was written exclusively for this purpose—for employees to protect themselves and their jobs against illegal action and receive equal footing with the boss."

The Employee Rights Handbook, Sack’s 19th book, is a special legal guide written in lay terms which provides all the essential information workers, executives, managers, consultants, and professionals need to properly protect themselves before, during, and after their jobs have ended. It is written exclusively for employees from their perspective and for their protection. The book offers hundreds of practical and proven strategies that all workers can understand and follow. This book is the first-aid kit for understanding one’s job rights, giving you the information and the power to fight back, or cut a deal if you are fired, and then land firmly on your feet. Most importantly, this comprehensive guide tells how to anticipate and avoid common troublesome situations that can crop up in the various stages of the employment process, such as:

• Does your new employer have the right to check your credit score?
• Can you be terminated for sending personal emails from your work account?
• How to safely use the internet in the workplace
• How to protect yourself from sexual harassment
• How to be properly hired
• Steps to take if you resign or are fired
• How to negotiate to receive maximum post-termination severance and other benefits
• What to do about defamatory job references
• How to win a case without a lawyer’s assistance

The Working Woman’s Legal Survival Guide:
Know Your Workplace Rights Before It's Too Late written by attorney Steven Mitchell Sack, The Employee’s Lawyer® will be published by Legal Strategies Publications in the fall of 2011. First published by Prentice Hall Press in 1998, this revised and enlarged Second Edition is designed to help women ensure their workplace rights, protect a job, and increase the value of a claim when they are mistreated or fired. Female workers enjoy a unique status in the eyes of the law. As a protected class, they cannot be discriminated against on the basis of sex or harassed on the job. In many instances, the law requires employers to offer equal pay for similar positions when compared to male counterparts. Women are protected against unfair firings and retaliation as a result of becoming pregnant or caring for a newborn child. These are just a few of the many legal protections women possess.

The only book of its kind, attorney Sack wrote The Working Woman’s Legal Survival Guide based on his experiences of representing hundreds of female clients each year by focusing the text on key topics his female clients typically seek guidance on. The book was designed to address job issues that pertain primarily and sometimes exclusively to women and was written to give women the edge.

According to Good Morning America consumer correspondent Janice Lieberman, "Noted labor attorney Steven Mitchell Sack provides invaluable information for all working women on their job rights and workplace issues . . . a gold mine! and a New York Times book review stated, "A clear, comprehensive primer about women’s rights in the workplace. Accessible and smoothly written, the book reliably covers everything from the initial interview to layoffs and firings . . . discrimination and labor acts, disability and insurance regulations, family and medical leave statutes, unfair promotion patterns, office romance policies, child care benefits and layoffs. There’s even a section on the privacy rules protecting those great office gossip sessions that go on in the ladies’ room.

More information about The Working Woman’s Legal Survival Guide will be forthcoming.