Course Title:
Employment Law
Course Description:
Surveys the common law, statutory, and administrative regulation of the employment relationship and current policy issues concerning paid employment. Topics discussed include labor market theory, job security, mass dismissals and plant closings, employer control of employee behavior, privacy on the job, minimum wage and maximum hour regulation, child labor, international labor standards, sweatshops, part-time and contingent employment relationships, child care, leave policy, issues for parents and other caretakers who enter paid labor markets, unemployment insurance, health-care insurance, retirement income, and the regulation of pension and benefit plans. Emphasizes legal and policy issues of concern to low-wage workers.
Fall Offering:
Lab/Coreq 1:
Spring Offering:
Lab/Coreq 2:
Summer Offering:
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
Prerequisite 1:
LPS G308
Summer 2 Offering:
Prerequisite 2:
LW G482
Cross-Listed Course 1:
LAW 2465
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Or attainment of a JD or an LLB.
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
