BLAW 5315 - Employment Law

3 credit hours
This course provides instruction for students planning to be future employers, business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, and managers as well as students interested in human resources who need an in-depth understanding of the law of the workplace. We will examine employer and employee rights and responsibilities and how courts, lawmakers, and regulators shape this dynamic. During the course, we will place current issues in historical context and cover topics as; who is an employee (vs. an independent contractor, intern, etc.); laws regulating the hiring process,; employer best practices,; the employement at-will doctrine and its exceptions; torts by employers against employees and by employees against third-parties; employment agreements’ arbitration of employment disputes; workplace investigations’ workplacwe privacy, speech, and social media issues; regulation of off-work activiest’ implied duty of loyalty, trade secrets, and noncompetition covenants’ miminimum wage, overtime and related wage and hour isssues; leave of absence and reasonable accomodation’ workplace safety; and severance, unemployment compensation, and related termination issues.