5-6 page assignment…Must follow all instructions

Employee Rights/Safety

Assignment Overview

(Signature Assignment: Critical Thinking, Introduced Level)

Compliance and the HR Functions

Before starting this assignment, be sure that you are familiar with what is meant by “critical thinking.”

Critical thinking is one of the five key rubric criteria by which your assignments are graded. Therefore, you are expected to demonstrate evidence of critical thinking in all assignments. For an overview of critical thinking, first read the Kurland article and then review the chart and watch the video:

What is Critical Thinking? (2012) Retrieved from

Foundation for Critical Thinking (2015). Our Concept and Definition of Critical Thinking. Retrieved from

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/our-concept-of-critical-thinking/411

Kurland, D. (2000). What is critical thinking? Critical Reading. Retrieved from

http://www.criticalreading.com/critical_thinking.htm

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. (2014) A must-have chart featuring critical thinking skills. Retrieved from

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/05/a-must-have-chart-featuring-critical.html

For this assignment, review the following:

HR Hero. (2017). Employment at Will. Retrieved from

http://topics.hrhero.com/employment-at-will-and-employment-law/

HR Hero. (2017). USERRA (The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act).

http://topics.hrhero.com/userra-uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rights-act/

U.S. Department of Agriculture (n.d.) IRCA Antidiscrimination Provisions. Retrieved from

http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal19/ircadisc.htm.

Case Assignment

You will explore the topics below and how they impact the private sector (not the public sector) workplace:

· Employment at Will Doctrine

· Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)

· USERRA

Address the following in a 5 to 6-page paper (not counting the cover page, references page and Appendix), supporting your arguments with citations to sources from the course and your research. Use at least 7 credible Online Library sources, plus any applicable background readings to support your discussion.

1. Provide a half-page summary of Employment at Will Doctrine, IRCA, and USERRA. Include these summaries together in one Appendix at the end of your paper.

2. Discuss how major Human Resource Management functions are impacted as you discuss the following:

· Examine employment at will and its exceptions. Explain the exception that has had the greatest impact on the private sector workplace.

· Discuss the one most important change you see is needed to the IRCA and explain your reasoning.

· Review USERRA and detail its positive and negative impacts on the private sector workplace.

Module 3 – Background Notes

Employee Rights/Safety

Required Reading

Critical Thinking:

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. (2014) A must-have chart featuring critical thinking skills. Retrieved from

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/05/a-must-have-chart-featuring-critical.html

Foundation for Critical Thinking. (2015). Our concept and definition of critical thinking. Retrieved from

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/our-concept-of-critical-thinking/411.

This reading will give you a background for the signature Case Assignment.

Kurland, D. (2000). What is critical thinking? Critical reading. Retrieved from 

http://www.criticalreading.com/critical_thinking.htm

. This is a brief overview.

Other Assignment Topics:

Guerin, L. (n.d.). Employment at will: What does it mean? Retrieved from Nolo at

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/employment-at-will-definition-30022.html

HR Hero. (2017). Employment at will. Retrieved from

http://topics.hrhero.com/employment-at-will-and-employment-law/.

This is a brief overview.

HR Hero. (2017). USERRA (The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act). Retrieved from

http://topics.hrhero.com/userra-uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rights-act/.

This is a brief overview.

Katz, H., Kochan, T., & Colvin, A. (2017). Employment law. An Introduction to U.S. collective bargaining and labor relations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pg. 71-79. Retrieved from Skillsoft Books in the Trident Online Library.

Muhl, C. (January 2001). The employment-at-will doctrine: Three major exceptions. Monthly Labor Review, 124(1), 3-11. Retrieved from ProQuest in the Trident Online Library.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (n.d.) IRCA Antidiscrimination Provisions. Retrieved from

http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal19/ircadisc.htm.

U.S. Department of Labor. (n.d.) Americans with Disabilities Act. Retrieved from

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/disability/ada

U.S. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division (WHD) (n.d.) The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Retrieved from

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/1421.htm

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Pregnancy discrimination. Retrieved from

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/pregnancy.cfm

U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Retrieved from

https://www.doleta.gov/layoff/warn.cfm

U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration, About OSHA. Retrieved from

https://www.osha.gov/about.html.

Optional Reading

Refer back to some of the useful overview websites from earlier modules if you need to review.

Boundless (n.d.) Core functions of human resource management. Retrieved from

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-management/chapter/core-functions-of-human-resource-management/.

CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.) Genetic information discrimination. Retrieved from

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/genetic.cfm