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Posted Jan. 7, 2004.
Prepared by Mary Whisner for Employment Law (A562).
Starting with a subject
- Begin with Master General Index in Master Index
binder, vol.1
Example: smoking
- Follow references. Recommendation: begin with a Manual
or the Expediter for an overview.
Examples: two entries on smoking in Individual Employment
Rights Manual: Right to smoke and State Laws.
- Follow references from overview sections.
Example: Montana's law about smoking off
the job, from the state laws section of Individual Employment Rights Manual
- Use the the ► numbers to find cases on your issue.
Example: tobacco smoke and disability law
Keeping up with the field
Scan the Analysis News and Background
pamphlet each week (or leaf through several weeks at a time).
For further assistance, see guide, Research in Labor and
Employment Law,
http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/labemp.htm.
Starting with a subject
Begin with Master General Index in Master Index binder,
vol.1
Example: smoking
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Abbreviations refer to different components of the set.
FEPM = Fair Employment Practices Manual
IERM = Individual Employment Rights Manual
LRX = Labor Relations Expediter
The Manuals and the Expediter have:
- basic information
about topics – a good secondary source for starting projects
- statutes and regulations, federal and (selectively) state
Anything with a ►
refers to BNA’s digest system (Outline of Classifications). It is a way to
find cases.
AD ► Americans with Disabilities Cases
FEP ►Fair Employment Practices Cases
IEP ►Fair Employment Practices Cases
IEP ► Individual Employment Rights Cases
LA ► Labor Arbitration
LR ► Labor Relations
WH ► Wages and Hours |
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Follow references
Recommendation: begin with a Manual or the Expediter for an overview.
Let’s look at two from the Individual Employment Rights Manual:
IERM 509:501
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IERM 509:501 |
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An overview of the
topic. |
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More detailed
information. Goes on on for pages.
Note discussion of
state laws. |
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Note date. Some
sections or pages of a looseleaf service are much newer than others. |
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IERM 509:118
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IERM 509:118 |
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Top of page has brief
entry about unemployment compensation and drug testing |
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Overview of
constitutional issues, state statutes, and common law.
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Note reference to
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Follow references from overview sections
- cases cited
- materials in other places in the looseleaf
- example: Individual Employment Rights Manual state laws tabs,
Montana: law about smoking off the job:
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Use the ► numbers to find cases on your issue
Let’s use the reference in the
Master General Index to ADA and Respiratory conditions, AD ► 708.06.
See where
the number fits in the
Outline of Classifications.
Look for tab in Master Index binders
– in this case, AD is in volume II. (The Outline of Classifications is also
printed in the bound digest volumes.)
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Volume number covered
by this pamphlet is at top of each page.
Here are several
headnotes from one case from the Northern District of Illinois:
Bond v. Sheahan, 13 AD Cases 157 (N.D. Ill.) |
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The
bound sets are shelved near the looseleaf set, but not in the same
place.
Labor Relations
Reporter (looseleaf set):
KF3365.B8 at Reference
Area
Americans with
Disabilities Cases (one of the
related sets):
KF3464.A5B89 at
Reference Area
Fair
Employment Practice Cases.
KF3464.A5B87 at Reference Area & Compact Stacks
Individual Employment Rights Cases.
KF3457.A5B8 at Reference Area & Compact Stacks
Labor
Arbitration Reports.
KF3421.B8 at Reference Area
Labor
Relations Reference Manual.
KF3365.B82 at Reference Area & Compact Stacks
Wage
and Hour Cases.
KF3485.A2B8 at Reference Area |
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Headnotes arranged by ►
number, just as in the looseleaf Cumulative Digest and Index.
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Look up the cases
The most recent cases (usually 1-2 years) are in
separate looseleaf binders:
- Labor Management Relations: Decisions (vol. 2)
- Labor Arbitration and Dispute Settlements (vol. 3)
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Wages & Hours Cases (Vol. 5)
- Fair Employment Practices Cases (Vol. 7)
- Individual Employment Rights Cases (Vol. 9)
Americans with Disabilities Cases (Vol. 10)
Older cases (going back a few years or many decades) are in
bound sets (with the bound digest volumes).
Example: second-hand smoke case that we found in the
looseleaf CDI: Bond v. Sheahan, 13 AD Cases 157 (N.D. Ill. 2001)
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Case begins with
citation, then headnotes (the same headnotes found in the
Cumulative Digest and Index). |
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Reporter includes full
text of opinion. |
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Keeping up with the field
Scan the Analysis News and Background pamphlet each week (or leaf through several
weeks at a time.)
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