Category Archives: Employment Law

New Edition! Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure (2023 Edition)

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure.

This guidebook presents clearly-written, concise insights into how hospital management teams, healthcare human resources professionals, and the legal practitioners who advise them can navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape around employment in the healthcare industry.

The treatise’s authors, James T. O’Reilly, Director of the Concentration in Health Services Management at the UC College of Medicine, and Mary Ellen Keegan, former in-house counsel for GE’s Aviation Division who has since negotiated favorably for MDs in disputes with insurance companies and healthcare organizations, offer actionable practices gleaned from their experiences working with physicians and public health regulatory issues.

Featuring sample contractual clauses, this resource discusses how doctors, stakeholders, and their lawyers can leverage astute planning and careful drafting to overcome emerging employment and transactional issues. In addition, the authors include tailored discussions on regulatory and transactional issues unique to physicians, registered nurses, and non-credentialed healthcare employees.

Healthcare Employment Practice includes:

  • Step-by-step, term-by-term guidance on physician employment contracts, with an emphasis on the problems presented by restrictive covenants, and a full sample Physician Employment Agreement (see Chapter 9, Chapter 10, and Appendix B);
  • A fifty-state survey of noncompete statutes and selected case law (see Appendix A – fully updated for 2023);
  • Labor and employment law as it affects healthcare industry employees in the areas of Collective Bargaining and Overtime Pay (see Chapter 14 and Chapter 19), Strikes and Lockouts (see Chapter 17), Safety Rules (see Chapter 20), and Conflict Resolution (see Chapter 21);
  • Issues presented by telemedicine (see Chapter 27);
  • Stark and anti-kickback law compliance (see Chapter 26);
  • Employment discrimination in healthcare: physician whistleblower, discrimi­nation, harassment, and retaliation claims (see Chapter 22).

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New Title! California Employment Law

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new treatise California Employment Law.

This comprehensive resource delves into the statutes and case law governing the employer-employee relationship in California, providing practical guidance on the state, local, and federal rules and regulations.  The treatise analyzes key provisions of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”), the California Labor Code and Wage Orders, and state leave laws. 

In addition, it provides extensive coverage of local leave and wage ordinances.  It highlights the significant differences between California employment law and federal laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”).

Notably, the book covers the following important areas:

The treatise also contains an extensive index, which makes topics easily accessible to attorneys, compliance professionals, and HR specialists.

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New Edition! Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana: Cannabis, Hemp and CBD Regulation (2022 Edition)

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana.

Updated annually, the book is a unique resource offering critical guidance on a wide range of interrelated topics for lawyers who represent clients in the fast-growing legal cannabis industry.  It sorts through the complex and varying state regulation of medical and non-medical marijuana with an appendix providing the latest key state legislation (see Chapter 3 and Appendix C). 

It also looks into the various aspects of establishing and managing a marijuana enterprise, including the growing, licensing, labeling, transporting, and distribution of marijuana and related products (see Chapters 7, 10, 11, 13, and 15).  In addition, the guide addresses federal law, enforcement, and preemption and their implications for employment, taxes, and banking (see Chapters 8 and 9). 

For lawyers new to representing cannabis clients, the authors provide an understanding of the definitions of marijuana and other cannabis products, as well as a review of the policy and political issues that have led to the controversy and uncertainty of the current environment (see the Table of Contents).

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Employment Law Webinar – Tomorrow! 5/26/22

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, May 26, at 3:00 pm ET for an Employment Law Webinar.

PLI’s Associate Legal Editor, Jenna Fiore, will provide a brief demo to highlight the Employment Law resources available on Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) online research database, PLI PLUS. Jenna will cover popular Employment Law titles and review research scenarios to demonstrate key features of PLI PLUS.

POPULAR EMPLOYMENT LAW TITLES AVAILABLE ON PLI PLUS INCLUDE:

This demo is part of PLI’s ongoing webinar series. Each month we highlight PLI’s resources in a different practice area while also demonstrating the overall functionality of the research database.  For registration and a list of upcoming webinars, visit PLI Practice Area Webinars.

New Edition! Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure (2022 Edition)

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure.

The hospital and healthcare environment has become more fractured and fractious in recent years. Job satisfaction among healthcare professionals is down due to occupational stress, physical and emotional exhaustion, burnout, lack of respect, and crushing administrative and oversight duties on top of clinical duties, loss of autonomy, and the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, complex employment contracts and noncompete covenants bind doctors and other healthcare personnel and have locked up the futures of many professionals. This guidebook responds to these complex issues with detailed contract guidance and practice tips to save you time, reduce errors, and improve employee satisfaction. The text explores how the system operates, and suggests how lawyers, human resource professionals, and hospital management teams can improve their outcomes through astute planning and careful drafting of agreements.

Healthcare Employment Practice includes:

  • Step-by-step, term-by-term guidance on physician on physician employment contracts, with an emphasis on the problems presented by restrictive covenants, and a full sample Physician Employment Agreement (see Chapters 9 and 10 and Appendix B – fully updated for 2022)
  • A fifty-state survey of noncompete statutes and selected case law (see Appendix A – fully updated for 2022);
  • Labor and employment law as it affects healthcare industry employees (see Chapters 13-21);
  • Issues presented by telemedicine (see Chapter 27);
  • Stark and anti-kickback law compliance (see Chapter 26);
  • Employment discrimination in healthcare: physician whistleblower, discrimina­tion, harassment, and retaliation claims (see Chapter 22).

Order a print copy today.

PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

New Edition! Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana: Cannabis, Hemp and CBD Regulation (2021 Edition).

This is a unique resource for lawyers who represent clients in the fast-growing legal cannabis industry. For lawyers new to representing marijuana clients, the authors provide an understanding of the definitions of marijuana and other cannabis products, as well as a review of the policy and political issues that have led to the controversy and uncertainty of the current environment.

The book also offers critical guidance on a wide range of interrelated topics, including:

  • The complex and varying state regulation of medical and non-medical marijuana;
  • Federal law, enforcement, and preemption and their implications for employment, taxes, and banking;
  • Various aspects of establishing and managing a marijuana enterprise, including the growing, licensing, labeling, transporting, and distribution of marijuana and related products.

The new edition adds the latest on regulation of CBD products, the Final Rule for the Establishment of a Domestic Hemp Production Program, and the laws of the latest states to adopt some form of cannabis legalization—New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, and Virginia.

Order a print copy today.

PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

New Edition! Healthcare Employment Practice

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure (2021 Edition).

This clear and concise guidebook responds to the complex issues arising from the increasingly fractured and fractious hospital and healthcare environment with examples and details to save time, reduce errors and improve employee satisfaction. The text explores how the system actually operates, and suggests how lawyers, human resource professionals and hospital management teams can improve their outcomes through astute planning and careful drafting of agreements.

The 2021 edition includes:

  • Step-by-step, term-by-term guidance on physician employment contracts, with an emphasis on the problems presented by restrictive covenants, and a full sample Physician Employment Agreement
  • Labor and employment law as it affects healthcare industry employees
  • Issues presented by telemedicine
  • Stark and anti-kickback law compliance

Order a print copy today.

PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

Employment Law Webinar – This Thursday!

Please join us this Thursday, November 19 at 2:00 p.m. ET, for a brief demo highlighting the Employment Law resources available on Practising Law Institute’s online research database, PLI PLUS. Led by Senior Library Relations Manager Zehava Monchar, this 30-minute demo will cover popular Employment Law titles and review research scenarios to demonstrate key features of PLI PLUS.

POPULAR EMPLOYMENT LAW TITLES AVAILABLE ON PLI PLUS INCLUDE:

This demo is part of our ongoing webinar series. Each month we highlight PLI’s resources in a different practice area while also demonstrating the overall functionality of the research database.  For registration and a list of upcoming webinars, visit PLI Practice Area Webinars.

New Title! COVID-19 and Other Pandemics

COVID-19 and Other Pandemics: Business and Legal Challenges, a new treatise from PLI Press, is now available for purchase.

The dramatic rise in client questions about the fallout from COVID-19 – on workplace risks, liability, health insurance, contracts and force majeure clauses, testing and tracing and more – presents a real-time challenge: Lawyers need clear answers now to navigate the regulatory and medical challenges.

This book, from public health and safety regulation experts James O’Reilly and Philip Hagan, provides background and analysis of legal and scientific issues that clients will need to understand in order to manage the new “normal” they are facing as they try to conduct business amidst a global pandemic. This results-oriented treatise combines practical advice, the latest scientific research and guidance from key government agencies to provide readers with the answers they need and the questions they didn’t know to ask.

Read more about this timely treatise on Above the Law.

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New Title – California Consumer Privacy Act Annotated

PLI Press is excited to announce the publication of a new treatise on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the first law of its kind in the United States providing consumer privacy protections.

California Consumer Privacy Act Annotated equips businesses and practitioners with the tools they need to understand the data they collect and how that data is used, disclosed, and stored, and then develop the framework, policies, and procedures to meet the CCPA notice requirements and to respond to data subject requests. This timely book takes into account the final text of proposed regulations the Attorney General submitted to the California Office of Administrative Law on June 1, 2020.

This thorough treatise includes advice on:

  • Determining whether an entity meets certain size and scope thresholds to be subject to the CCPA
  • Evaluating whether personal information collected from consumers, households, and devices is protected under the CCPA or whether an exemption applies
  • Understanding the considerations surrounding the sale of personal information by a business to a third party
  • Drafting sound notices at collection and privacy policies
  • Understanding the rights the CCPA grants to consumers regarding their personal information, as well as the different exceptions and limitations to these rights, in setting up processes and procedures for compliance
  • Building an infrastructure and creating procedures for managing and responding to consumer requests under the CCPA
  • Evaluating security requirements and practices in light of the new private right of action in which consumers can seek actual damages and statutory damages for a personal information security breach that is the result of a business’s failure to use reasonable security

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