Labor and Employment Law Research
by Chris Byrne
updated August 2022
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Books
Library Catalog
To search for books, journals, and audiovisual materials held by William & Mary libraries, use the online catalog.
Search Tips:
Subject Queries--
- labor and United States
- personnel management and United States
- employee rights and United States
- discrimination and employment and United States
Individual jurisdictions can be searched, e.g. employee rights and Virginia; discrimination and employment and Virginia
Library of Congress Call Numbers for Labor Law: KF 3301-3580. Browse the shelves under these call numbers to locate relevant treatises.
To search for materials from other libraries, use Worldcat.
Selected Treatises
- Cox, Paul N., Employment Discrimination, 3rd ed.
KF3464 .C69 1999 - Hazelton, Penny A., ed., Specialized Legal Research, 2014 ed.
Ref. KF240 .S64 2014 (includes a chapter on federal labor and employment law) - Lareau, N. Peter, National Labor Relations Act: Law and Practice, 2022 ed.
Lexis - Larson, Lex K., Larson on Employment Discrimination
2022 Lexis - Larson, Lex K., Unjust Dismissal
2022 Lexis - Schneider, Les A. and J. Larry Stine, Wage and Hour Law Compliance & Practice 2021 Westlaw
Journal Articles
Contains detailed indexing for over 1,200 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association and university publications, and some journals from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia/NZ. Includes full text for over 1100 journals. Coverage: 1908 - present.
For More Information
For more information about finding law review articles, including older ones, see Locating Legal and Non-Legal Journal Articles.
Full Text Articles and Treatises
- Hein Online: Law Journal Library
- Lexis: Law Reviews and Journals
- Lexis: All Labor & Employment Law Treatises, Practice Guides & Jurisprudence
- Westlaw: Law Reviews and Journals
- Westlaw: Labor & Employment--Treatises
- Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
- Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal
- Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
- University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
Looseleaf Services & Newsletters
Topical Services & Reporters
Newsletters
W&M Databases
Lexis- The Labor Law library includes case law, proposed and enacted legislation, and regulations. Selected secondary sources include journal articles (e.g., Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal) and newsletters (e.g, Bender's Labor and Employment Bulletin (2001-present)). It also contains international materials, such as treaties and other agreements dealing with labor law.
- Employment Practice area materials include statutes, regulations, cases, and secondary sources.
Other Databases
- Factiva
Includes a searchable archive of more than 80 million articles from more than 6,000 business and industry publications. Nearly all the articles are full-text. - Business Source Complete Full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Web Sites
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionThe EEOC promotes equal opportunity in employment through administrative and judicial enforcement of the federal civil rights laws and through education and technical assistance.
U.S. Department of LaborThe DOL protects workers' wages, health and safety, employment and pension rights; promotes equal employment opportunity; administering job training, unemployment insurance and workers' compensation programs; strengthens free collective bargaining and collecting, analyzes and publishes labor and economic statistics.
National Labor Relations BoardThe NLRB conducts secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees want union representation and investigates and remedies unfair labor practices by employers and unions.
Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationOSHA establishes protective standards for workers, enforces those standards, and reaches out to employers and employees through technical assistance and consultation programs.
Bureau of Labor StatisticsThe BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. It is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor.
Associations
ABA Section of Labor and Employment LawRepresents all perspectives of labor and employment law, management, labor, plaintiff, and public. It is committed to a balanced discussion of employment issues in the United States and abroad.
Employee Benefit Research InstituteFosters the development of sound employment benefit programs and public policy through objective research and education.
Workplace FairnessAssists individuals, both employed and unemployed, in understanding, enforcing, and expanding their rights in the workplace. Workplace Fairness provides information, facilitates access to employment advocates, litigates cases that have a potentially broad impact, and promotes public policy and legislation to advance employee rights.
National Employment Lawyers AssociationAssists and supports lawyers in protecting the rights of employees against the greater resources of their employers and the defense bar.