MNGT 276 Employment Law: Human Resource Legal Issues (5 credits)

2. Identify the major federal and state administrative agencies regulating employment, delineating: a. their authority to regulate employment, b. the processes they use in performing those regulatory functions, and c. the offices and officials within those agencies who interact with outside entities in order to resolve employment-related matters.

3. Discuss and explain major federal and state statutes of conditions of employment, together with related regulations, as applied by the courts regarding : a. discrimination based on a variety of cultural traits, such as gender, age, race, religion, national origin, and ability, and including sexual harassment and affirmative action b. safety, including payment to workers for job-related injuries, and c. compensation and public policy issues, such as overtime and child labor.

4. Analyze significant federal and state statutes, together with related regulations, as applied by the courts to the establishment and administration of retirement trusts.

5. Examine major federal and state statutes, together with related regulations, as applied by the courts to the labor-management relationship, including the establishment and operation of unions and the negotiation and administration of collectively bargained agreements.

6. Demonstrate, relative to initiating, maintaining, and defending against legal actions pertaining to employment matters, the ability to: a. gather and organize relevant, reliable information, and b. prepare the forms typically required.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Use appropriate technological tools to create, compile and report business information. Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions. Minor Core Ability: Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50