HRMT 350 - Employment Law

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: Junior Standing or consent of instructor

Analyzes employment practices law and its impact on employment decision-making; equal employment opportunity and discriminations; occupational safety and health, pension and benefit regulations and laws that pertain to the employment relationship; emphasis is on the impact of regulations on organization personnel and human resource policy. The course will present a chronological sequence starting with the Bill of Rights in 1791 to the Civil Rights Acts, Executive Orders, ERISA, and the legislation that created the agencies currently monitoring workplace standards such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Department of Labor (DOL).