BUS 2217 - Employment Law for Business

1. Identify and apply employment laws needed to make decisions for effective workplace management.
2. Evaluate and apply solutions to basic employment law problems by utilizing concepts, principles, laws, and legal theories taught in the course.
3. Comprehend terminology, concepts, principles, laws, and legal theories relating to employment law.
4. Demonstrate the ability to conduct a legal analysis and make an effective legal argument relating to employment law issues.
5. Apply appropriate terminology, principles, laws, and legal theories to explain how the workplace is affected by the changing global environment.

1. Regulation of the employment relationship: includes topics essential to understanding the employer-employee relationship such as testing, assessments, basic terms and definitions; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; legal construction of the employment environment including recruitment, hiring, appraisals, and other connected issues.
2. Regulation of discrimination in employment: includes topics relating to employment discrimination such as affirmative action, race, gender, harassment, religion, national origin, age, and disability.
3. Regulation of the employment environment: includes material on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and labor laws.
4. Employment-at-will
5. Workplace privacy
6. Freedom to contract
7. Mediation and arbitration