Legal Issues for HR Professionals – Winter 2010

NOTE: CSU San Marcos is CLOSED the week of March 29 for Spring Break – No Class

Lesson 5 – Leaves of Absence – for ~~March 30, 2010~~ Discussion April 6, 2010)

Lesson 6 – Wage & Hour Laws – for April 6, 2010

Final Session – April 13, 2010 - Presentations

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A Note on Presentations for April 13:

The primary purpose of the presentation is to show how you, as an HR manager, will analyze a problem in your workplace, whether you yourself discovery a violation of the law or whether an employee comes to you and presents the problem.

Some of you may find published cases that were decided under federal law or in other states. You may use the facts of the story, but the assignment is to discuss how a California employer should respond if presented with the same set of facts.

So the key portions of the presentation are:

1. Describe the problem (and how it might come to your attention, or how it did come to your attention);

2. Analyze what laws apply to the problem

3. Describe what you would do to solve the problem.

If your facts come from a published case study or an opinion of a court, your analysis should use the facts from that case, but apply the same analysis as shown above. If a decision was already given in that case, tell us:

1. Would a California employer be correct in taking the action that was taken in that case?

2. If not, what course of action would you recommend for a California employer faced with the same facts?

You will be graded on a combination of your written report and oral presentation.

The written report should be between approximately 500 and 1000 words. Grammar and spelling both count.

You may use PowerPoint for your oral presentation, but it is not required and is not as important as the content of your presentation – which should show that you have a basic understanding of how to recognize and analyze a legal issue.