title: You Could Be Fired for Reading This Book: Protect Your Employment Rights
author:  Glenn Solomon 
description: "It's hard for a person with a job-related legal problem to know what to do. Solomon<br /> gives the average person sound advice that is easy to understand and fun to read. If<br /> you're thinking about suing your boss, the first thing you should do is buy this book."<br /> <b>--Lewis L. Maltby, President, National Workrights Institute; former director<br /> of the ACLU's National Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the Workplace</b>
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Cover Page](content/coverimage.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](content/titlepage.html)
  
  
  [Overtime](content/text.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All bureaucracies obey certain iron laws, and one of the oldest is this: get
  your seasonal leave booked early, lest you be trampled in the rush.
  
  
  I broke the rule this year, and now I’m paying the price. It’s not my fault I
  failed to book my Christmas leave in time—I was in hospital and heavily
  sedated. But the ruthless cut and thrust of office politics makes no allowance
  for those who fall in the line of battle: You should have foreseen your
  hospitalization and planned around it said the memo from HR when I
  complained. They’re quite right, and I’ve made a note to book in advance next
  time I’m about to be abducted by murderous cultists or enemy spies.
  
  
  I briefly considered pulling an extended sickie, but Brenda from Admin has a
  heart of gold; she pointed out that if 