Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services / Edition 3

by J. Curtis Varone

Overview

The third edition of Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services is a reader-friendly guide to the challenging legal issues that firefighters and emergency service personnel encounter. 
Written by J. Curtis Varone, a practicing attorney as well as an experienced firefighter, this book explores such key topics as fire department liability, search and seizure, sovereign immunity, overtime laws, collective bargaining, OSHA compliance, workers’ compensation, physical abilities testing, medical examinations, drug testing, discrimination, and sexual harassment. It is a perfect textbook for any course on fire service law as well as an indispensable desk reference for day-to-day fire department administration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593703479
Publisher:	Fire Engineering Books & Videos
Publication date:	09/05/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	706
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

J. Curtis Varone has been in the fire service since 1972 with experience in career, combination, and volunteer fire departments. He has been a practicing attorney representing firefighters and fire departments since 1985. Curt retired from the Providence (RI) Fire Department in 2008 as a deputy assistant chief and now serves as deputy fire chief of his hometown of Exeter, Rhode Island.

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Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) Correlations Grid
• Introduction
• Types and sources of laws
• Courts and court systems
• Types of fire departments
• Administrative agencies
• Criminal law
• Criminal procedure
• Civil liability issues
• Negligence
• Immunity from liability
• Contract law and employment issues
• Labor law and collective bargaining
• Employee rights and discrimination
• Sexual harassment and other forms of employment discrimination
• Fair labor, family medical leave, residency, drug testing, electronic monitoring, digital imagery, and social networking
• Public accountability laws
• EMS law
• Appendix A - Constitution of the United States of America • Appendix B - For further reference
• Glossary
• Index