LAW-3170: Employment Law

Surveys the common law and selected state and federal statutory schemes that regulate the employment relationship in the United States. Specific topics the course may explore include: erosion of the employment-at-will doctrine by state court decisions; employee hiring and discharge; federal and state fair labor standards acts; employee privacy rights; occupational safety and health acts; worker's compensation; and a variety of fringe benefit regulations. This course does not emphasize the anti discrimination statutes such as Title VII or labor management relations statutes such as the National Labor Relations Act. Online asynchronous course. Students may take up to 41 credits under the 83-credit requirement (43 under the 86-credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated "distance education courses." A distance education course is one in which students are separated from all faculty members for more than one-third of the instruction and the instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and all faculty members, either synchronously or asynchronously. Source: ABA Standards Definition (7) and 306.