Maryland Employment Law: Forms and Practice Manual

Maryland Employment Law: Forms and Practice Manual 

Prominent Maryland attorneys have drawn from their extensive experience to bring you strategies and forms for virtually every employment situation you or your client may encounter, from the hiring process through the termination of an employment relationship, and concludes with the handling of dispute resolution. You’ll find it all in this definitive Manual which features a bonus CD with over 300 electronic forms.

With more than 1,000 pages of valuable content, you’ll stay current with appropriate statutes and regulations – complemented by thorough discussions and analyses of any changing federal and Maryland state laws. Throughout the publication, you’ll find checklists of issues for consideration, sample policies and procedures, draft employment contracts and separation agreements, as well as pertinent government and other published forms to help you develop the best employment practices and policies. Plus, you’ll be expertly guided through the extensive selection of employment forms using an easy-to-follow format.

Recent Updates Include:

• DOL Guidance on Tracking Remote Employee Time and Electronic Posting
• Changes to Joint DOL Employment Regulations
• Maryland Essential Workers’ Protection Act
• Maryland’s Bereavement Leave
• Maryland’s Workplace Violence Bill
• Amendments to Maryland’s Economic Stabilization Act
• Amendments to Montgomery County’s Anti-Harassment and Ban-the Box laws

Carla N. Murphy, Esq.  received a B.A. from Lafayette College, graduating summa cum laude, and also with departmental honors from Lafayette’s Department of Economics/Business. During her college term she spent time abroad and studied at the London School of Economics. Ms. Murphy received her J.D. from the University of Maryland, School of Law, with honor, and interned with the Honorable Susan K. Gauvey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland during her law school tenure. Since that time, Ms. Murphy was a member of Ober|Kaler’s Litigation and Employment & Labor practice groups and she is now a partner at Duane Morris, an Amlaw 100 law firm with more than 700 attorneys in offices across the United States and internationally. Ms. Murphy represents employers in wrongful discharge claims, discrimination claims, wage/hour and benefit disputes, employee contract and compensation disputes, defamation and invasion of privacy claims, and covenants against competition and other business related torts. Ms. Murphy also offers litigation avoidance advice to employers encouraging the development of employment policies and agreements, including employee handbooks, arbitration agreements, non-competition and trade secret agreements, and employment contracts. Ms. Murphy is past President of the Arc Baltimore and has also served as a hearing officer for the Baltimore City Civil Service Commission.

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SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Hiring

Chapter 2: Employer-Employee Relationship and Employment Contracts

Chapter 3: Wage and Hour Law

Chapter 4: Record Retention

Chapter 5: Discrimination and Harassment

Chapter 6: Employee Performance, Work Rules, Discipline and Problem Resolution

Chapter 7: Family and Medical Leave and Other Leaves of Absence

Chapter 8: Employee Handbooks

Chapter 9: Workplace Privacy

Chapter 10: Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants, and Confidentiality Agreements

Chapter 11: Termination of the Employment Relationship

Chapter 12: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Indices