Class Description:

Addresses employment laws and issues including the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991, FLSA, ADA, FMLA, ERISA, selected immigration laws, affirmative action, sexual harassment, and other issues of gender and racial/ethnic equity. Also deals with business ethics issues as they relate to HR.

General Course Objectives

In a pure free market economy “employment at will” suggests that both parties are free to enter an employment relationship under whatever terms the market will bear.  In reality however there are innumerable laws that regulate the employment relationship.  This course is intended to give students an in-depth examination of those employment laws. 

Students passing Legal & Ethical Issues in Human Resources, HR 4050, will have …

• a firm understanding of each of the major laws impacting the employment relationship,
• a good knowledge of the resources available to them for further study of employment law, and
• the confidence to write constructively about contemporary issues in employment law.