Best labor & employment law books according to redditors

I'm not an ex-Muslim. However, as an ex-Christian, I recognize the need for people to have some spiritual structure to their lives, for purpose, morality, life, love, etc. I would recommend philosophy, from personal experience. Kant, Mill, Aristotle, and any Stoic (particularly Marcus Aurelius) make excellent starting points to providing this structure.

Some excellent fiction books about this sort of thing include Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and poetry in general. Humanism (a longer, more philosophical word for "love" really), is a marvelous starting place. I love literature in general, and one can find profound truth about human nature, morality, and our place in the universe in fiction (even religious fiction, provided we're suspending disbelief and not sacrificing virgins to Apollo, etc).

There can be psychological value in ritual, which perhaps the 5-a-day prayer cycle provided for you before. Things like daily runs, meditation sessions, family meal-time, and closing each day by reading a book for 15-20 minutes can provide a similar sort of structure, if that's what you're after (in my opinion, a more meaningful and powerful one too). I think too much reliance on external events to feel secure and emotionally stable might be a sign that counseling would be a better route to personal health than asking reddit, but it sounds like there's more to it than just the prayer sessions.

Always remember that monotheism, no matter which one it is, breaks your leg and then offers you a crutch. What it sounds like you're feeling is your subconscious sense of instability without the base you've been convinced that you need. The trick is, you're leg isn't broken... you're a complete person with value - a self-sustaining, beautiful, living, breathing, thinking, feeling human being. You don't need the crutch. This can be hard to internalize at first, but when you think about what a prayer actually does, it becomes more difficult to miss. At least it did for me.

I am a rising 3L. It would have been helpful if you gave a bit more information about why in the world you're considering becoming a lawyer. Since you didn't, I'm just going to give you a huge list of links to materials which have informed my general philosophical understanding of law, justice, and the legal profession and hope you find some of it interesting.

Music:

Dead Prez - Fuck the Law

Crass - Bloody Revolution

GG Allin - Fuck Authority

Wesley Willis - It’s Against the Law

Wilco - Against the Law

Golf Wang - Earl

MellowHype - Fuck the Police

KottonMouth Kings and ICP - Fuck the Police

RATM - Fuck the Police

Dead Kennedys - Police Truck

Choking Victim - Money

Anti-Flag - No Borders, No Nations

Utah Phillips - I Will Not Obey

Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ

Todos Tus Muertos - Gente Que No

David Wrench - A Radical Song

Books:

Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish(PDF Link)

[Thomas Geoghegan - The Law in Shambles](http://www.amazon.com/Law-Shambles-Thomas-
Geoghegan/dp/097281969X)

Rawn James Jr. - Root and Branch

Deborah Rhode - In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession

Alan Dershowitz - Letters to a Young Lawyer

Richard Posner - Overcoming Law (specifically read "The Material Basis of Jurisprudence")

Susan Eaton - The Children in Room E4

Sunny Schwartz - Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Alan Dershowitz - The Best Defense

John Rawls - A Theory of Justice

Robert Nozick - Anarchy, State and Utopia

Ward Churchill - Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-American Laws

J. Shoshanna Ehrlich - Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Teens

Film:

Judgment at Nuremberg

A Civil Action

To Kill a Mockingbird

Before every event, get the list of attendees and do your research on them so you know who you want to meet...perhaps even email them in advance to express your interest in getting to know them or more about their work (if your professor is ok with this). If there's a meal served, be sure to sit next to the people you want to meet. Express interest in them and be sure to follow up with a LinkedIn request and a handwritten note.

If possible, ask them for advice about something so you have a reason to follow up with them later to let them know how it went when you tried their suggestion.

You may also want to check out Ari Kaplan's book on creating opportunities for yourself.

Labor law is unions and collective bargaining agreements. I practiced labor law at a big corporation this past summer. If you are interested in this, you should read the "nutshell" about the topic. Check it out here. I have heard they are a pretty good resource.

The other commentators here are right, you're bringing a knife to a gunfight. Read this book, then pay a lawyer who specializes in oil and gas (your family lawyer can probably get you an in-state referral) $300/hr to help you. Aggessive, competent lawyers are worth the money assuming that you have enough land.

http://www.amazon.com/Oil-Gas-Law-Nutshell-5th/dp/031418497X

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Employment-Tribunal-Claims-Tactics-Precedents/dp/1903307708

I’ve found this book to be fairly decent for covering the basics.

I took the class in the fall and had decent success. I can't remember the guy's name who wrote the supplement I used but I'll track it down and get back to you. I'm pretty sure the guy's name is zinnecker.

edit: I found it. he co-authored the Q and A book. This was super helpful for me because my exam was multiple choice.

https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Answers-Judge-Bruce-Markell/dp/1422483460/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DMZ9ACCZCNYVP6YKSPTG

Look out for some of the newer rules on multi-state transactions and DR name requirements on financing statements.

I live in Ontario.

There have been a few incidences, one of them being a company hired an employee and failed to do references. Later, the employee was investigated for stealing from the company (several thousands). The insurance declined to cover the costs since it came out that the employee stole at her previous job (I believe the current and former company had insurance with the same company, and this is how they knew). The insurance said that if they had conducted a reference check with the former company then they would have know about the stealing (since this is what she was terminated for). They had failed to do this and therefore the insurance wouldn't cover. This is why it's highly recommended to complete the reference, even if it's just one person.

I don't have my textbook on me to quote the incident, but it's found in For Better or for Worse by Christine Thomlinson.

You might enjoy Jonathan Livinston Seagull

The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy

Autobiography of a Yogi

The Field,
The Intention Experiment, The Bond

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

> it really comes down to what the company's written policy was at the time of the incident.

No, not really. You are being paid to do what the employer wants. Employment in most states is at-will, meaning:

"The employer is free to discharge individuals for good cause, or bad cause, or no cause at all, and the employee is equally free to quit, strike, or otherwise cease work."

If the employer wants you to wear a sticker showing the number of days since the last accident, you're free to find an employer who doesn't make that requirement, and he's free to fire you and replace you with someone who will follow his policies, written or otherwise.

> The fact that he accepted the three day suspension but was then fired also weighs heavily in his favor.

Nope. Again, employment is at will. They took three days to figure out they didn't want the dumb shit back, and he could have taken those same three days to decide he didn't want to work for a bunch of Hell bound heathens.

Alternatively, much research has shown that female-dominated industries have had systematic wage discrimination. Your "self-selecting into low wage industries" has the causal arrow completely backwards.