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2024-2025 Law School Catalog
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LAW 699LEC - Employment Law This course is an introduction to employment law. As defined by the legal academy and profession, “employment law” refers to the statutes common law decisions, state and federal, governing individual rights at work. The large majority of this course will be spent discussing how the law balances employer and employee interests in the workplace with respect to matters such as job security, employee mobility, employees’ dignitary interests (e.g., privacy), and the exercise of “voice” or “free speech” in the workplace. In addition to these core concerns, we will begin the course with an exploration of the origins of the “individual rights” model of employment law. We will also spend time learning the statutory framework governing minimum wages and maximum hours in the workplace, as well as discussing the now dominant form of enforcing individual rights at work: mandatory predispute arbitration. Given these concerns, this course will not address other areas of the law regulating the employment relationship, such as prohibitions on discrimination in employment with regard to race, gender, religion, disability, etc.; the regulation of employer health and pension plans; or the regulation of collective employment representation through labor unions (i.e., labor law).
Credits: 3
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