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

1. Explain the legal foundations of employment relationships by applying common law and contract principles to how employment begins, operates, and terminates.
2. Identify and interpret the roles of key federal and state regulatory agencies responsible for enforcing employment laws, including their authority, procedures, and regulatory functions.
3. Analyze and apply major employment statutes and regulations related to workplace discrimination, safety, compensation, and public policy to ensure compliance and equitable employment practices.
4. Evaluate the legal framework governing labor relations and employee benefits, including collective bargaining, unionization, and the administration of retirement and benefit plans.
5. Demonstrate the ability to research, document, and support employment-related legal actions by gathering relevant information and preparing appropriate professional documentation.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Apply and analyze multicultural strategies to facilitate respectful and equitable inclusion of diverse individuals and perspectives to achieve organizational goals.

Strategic Thinking
Use quantitative and qualitative business principles to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate business problems in order to design and execute effective and ethical business solutions.
 

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. 

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

Potential Methods
A. Essay exam B. Objective exam C. Instructor observation D. Self-evaluation E. Peer-evaluation F. Learning lab G. Project H. Paper I. Case study J. Oral Presentation