How employment laws and public policy affect recruitment
Your goal is to answer the question and show off how much you have learned! Feel free to use any of your notes, book, and/or course materials. You may use the internet, but do so judiciously. You are not limited to things we have devoted time to in class – you’ve been learning to think like a lawyer and now you can do it regarding any piece of legislation or common law. Cite to what you use in any logical citation format. There is no length requirement (minimum or maximum). Be sure to proofread like a maniac. Submit through Blackboard when you’re done … this is due no later than our final exam period. Happy writing and thinking!
1. A letter to a first year HR recruiter:
HR professionals often play a crucial role in recruitment of employees for the firm. Chris Plevins just accepted a position as a first year HR recruiter for the Diversified Search recruiting firm in Philadelphia. In a letter to Chris, please explain how the employment laws and public policy affect recruitment activities for the firm. Be sure to include an illustrative example of your points (feel free to use a real or made up scenario) and give plenty of advice to Chris throughout!
2. A memo to managers about performance appraisals:
Part of the responsibilities of HR Management is the design and implementation of good performance appraisal systems. You work as a full-time HR professional for SAP Software & Solutions in Newtown Square, PA. As with most companies, SAP does performance reviews once a year. The time is coming up, and you would like to avoid any legal issues from this year’s performance appraisal process.
Please write a memo to your company’s front line managers giving specific “Do”s and “Don’ts” regarding their giving of performance appraisals that will reduce legal issues. Be sure to include an illustrative example of your points (feel free to use a real or made up scenario). Don’t forget to make this one in memo format!
3. An opinion piece to the Temple News:
After taking this class, you have a desire to extol the benefits or horrors of a concept most of your peers are not really aware of: the doctrine of employment-at-will. Please write an opinion piece to the Temple News, geared toward a college student readership, talking about your opinion about employment-at-will and its impact, especially on college students starting out in their first jobs. Please be sure to discuss the concept of employment-at-will and when it applies, giving at least one example of (your opinion of) a fair outcome of the doctrine and at least one example of (your opinion of) an unjust outcome of the doctrine.
4. A detailed press release in favor of your favorite employment law:
Let’s assume that in the future President Sandersdecides to have a special day declared once a year in honor of a particular employment law. That day – May 13th every year – will celebrate the law’s enactment and function, and its importance to American society. President Sanders has selected you – yes, you! – to decide what the law is for 2018 and write a press release about what the law is and why it is important to American society. Be sure to give plenty of information and use at least one example so that the average American can understand the new holiday without having to have a law and public policy course.
