ILRMD505
Legal Issues in the Workplace
Improve understanding of organizational legislation and employment law. Learn to recognize and avoid legal risk in the workplace.
Description
Explore federal, state, and local employment laws and learn how to comply with Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Affirmative Action (AA) and Diversity issues. Learn to recognize and avoid potential legal risks in everyday workplace situations, and know when to seek in-house or outside counsel.
Work within the law when interviewing, hiring, evaluating, and firing employees.
Who Should Take This Course?
Shift supervisors, entry-level to mid-level managers, and members of revolving project teams with no direct reports.
Course Format
eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and builds each course around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content. This course contains the following module:
- Legal Issues in the Workplace
- The scope of employment laws
- Equal Employment Opportunity laws, Affirmative Action, and Diversity
- Recognizing EEO legal risks
- Strategies for minimizing EEO legal risks
- Wage, safety, and other employment laws
- Assessing whether an FMLA, FLSA, OSHA, or state law situation represents a legal risk
Benefits to the Learner
After completing the course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize employment-related laws and assess their impact on employment-related decisions
- Recognize how Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, or Diversity applies to employment-related issues
- Categorize employment-related issues into legal or employee relations issues to enable you to assess legal risks associated with management decisions
- Recognize the difference between employee relations issues and potentially unlawful situations in the workplace
- Avoid potentially illegal behaviors when interviewing, evaluating, and disciplining employees
- Avoid potentially illegal behaviors in situations involving FMLA, FLSA, OSHA, or state laws
Authoring Faculty
Andrea M. Basile Terrillion, Esq., Director of Management, NYC Office of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Shelley Greenwald, Esq., Adjunct Faculty, NYC Office of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Sponsoring School
Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Total Learning Time
Approximately 5-6 hours over a period of two weeks.
Certificate Information
This course can be applied toward the following certificates:
ACE CREDIT Recommendation
This course contributes to an eCornell Certificate Program that has been recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT). Please refer to the Certificate information page for additional details.
HRCI Recertification
This course been approved for six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.
Project Management Institute Professional Development Units
This course qualifies for 5.50 Professional Development Units (PDUs)
from the Project Management Institute
(PMI) for Professional Project Managers (PMPs) seeking ongoing education and professional
development for continuing certification. eCornell is a Global Registered Education
Provider of PMI. PDUs are designated as Category 3.
With all eCornell courses, access is easy. Participants only need a computer and an Internet connection. To view specific technology requirements, visit our Technology Requirements page.
