LAW 7536 - Employment Law

This course explores selected topics in employment law in the non-union workplace. The course covers the evolving common law and statutory approaches to regulating the employer-employee relationship from hiring to firing. Topics include employee privacy, protections against workplace discrimination, regulation of wages and hours, sexual harassment, and remedies for wrongful termination. The grade in this course will be based on a paper in lieu of a final exam. The course will provide students the opportunity to apply the knowledge they gain by acting as attorneys in simulated pre-litigation, litigation, and advice and counsel exercises. Spring 2023 offering of this course, with Professor Hurns, will satisfy the Practice Oriented Writing Requirement. Letter grade. 3 credits