Lesson
2 – Hiring – for March 9, 2010
Lesson 3- Discrimination - For March 16, 2010
Lesson 4- Harassment, Investigations & Privacy – For
March 23, 2010
Lesson 5 – Leaves of Absence – for March 30, 2010
NOTE: Cal. State Univ. San Marcos is CLOSED March 31 for
Cesar Chavez Day
Lesson 6 – Wage & Hour Laws – for April 6, 2010
Final Session – April 13, 2010 - Presentations
Reference:
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.