Employment Law Certificate Course
Overview
Employment law is a branch of contract law that deals with relationships between employers and employees. This course will cover statutes such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Railway Labor Act, and other various statutes dealing with public employees. Topics to be included are master and servant, wages and hours, anti discrimination in employment and minimum wages and maximum hours, as well as regulation of working conditions.
George Mason University offers Employment Law Certificate Course Online in collaboration with The Center for Legal Studies.
+ Features
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Employment Law
- Lesson 2: Labor Management Relations
- Lesson 3: Economic Weapons
- Lesson 4: Racial Discrimination
- Lesson 5: Sex or National Origin Discrimination
- Lesson 6: Age and Disability Discrimination
Course Objectives
- Discuss the roots of the master-servant relationship.
- Distinguish employment from independent contracting.
- Distinguish employment at will from wrongful discharge.
- Identify torts that can be brought against employers.
- Examine discrimination in hiring.
- Discuss accommodation in working conditions.
- Identify labor organizations.
- Discuss unfair labor practices.
- Examine the structure of the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act.
- Identify constitutional protections against discrimination.
- Discuss disability discrimination and accommodations.
- Examine age discrimination in hiring and in retirement.
+ Requirements
This is an accelerated course. You will be expected to spend an average of at least 8 hours per week reading and completing assignments. Students are required to complete writing assignments for each lesson, exams and bulletin board assignments. Please note that extensions will not be granted for this online course.
Textbooks are not included in the course registration fee.
You can find a list of available textbooks for this course here.