Employment Law Seminar

Catalog description

This seminar provides students with an opportunity to analyze and discuss employment law topics. Topics that will be explored include the legal nature of the employment relationship, worker classification, employment at-will and its limitations, wage and hour laws, certain employee benefits, employee privacy, noncompetition agreements, the protection of trade secrets, and administrative agency process for bringing employment-related cases. Labor law and employment discrimination, while important areas of the law, will not be covered more than cursorily in this seminar. Each student will: 1. As part of a group, respond to either a call for information by either the U.S. Department of Labor or other administrative agency, or present a case study; 2. Write a seminar paper; and 3. Present their seminar paper topic to the class. This course satisfies the upper-level writing seminar requirement.