Virtual Workplace - Public Health, Efficiency, and Opportunity

Explores the emerging issues of virtual work and looks at how employers have turned to technology during the pandemic.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Who is an employee?; 3. Pleading standards and the technology sector; 4. Aggregating claims; 5. Collective bargaining agreements and unions in the modern economy; 6. Harassment and the virtual workplace; 7. A few final thoughts.

About the author

Joseph A. Seiner is a Professor of Law and the Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Professor Seiner has been featured in a number of national media sources, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, ProPublica, The Atlantic, and Fortune. He routinely gives presentations on labor and employment related issues, and teaches classes in the area of workplace law. Professor Seiner has published numerous books and articles on employment topics, and his work is widely cited in academia and by the federal courts.

Summary

Explores the emerging issues of virtual work—defining employment, litigating claims, aggregating cases, unionizing workers, and preventing harassment—and how employers have turned to technology during the pandemic. As work moves further into the virtual context, we must find new ways of framing employment laws to keep pace with these changes.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph A. Seiner, Joseph A. (University of South Carolina) Seiner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108718028
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71802-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, LAW / Labor & Employment, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Employment & Labour Law, Employment and labour law: general, Public Health & Safety Law, Public health and safety law