Legal Risk and Opportunity in Employment Business Law/Law531 University of Phoenix May 5, 2010 As business managers or business owners, it is required to know the laws that will protect the employer and employee too. Employment laws must be fully understood in order to identify when someone’s action will cause legal matters that will harm to the company. Legal Encounter 1: Pat vs. NewCorp The legal principals related to this encounter are, what does the policy hand
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Opportunity in Employment The following assessment will discuss legal risks and opportunities involves in three NewCorp legal encounters. The decision for each counter will be supported by legal principles from management of employee conduct and employment discrimination (Jennings, M. M, 2006). In Legal Encounter 1, In a principal and agent relationship, NewCorp exercises a great deal of control over Pat Grey. Pat is in high level of supervision and control. His scope of employment is about three months
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Legal Risk & Opportunity in Employment Joe Kroeger Business Law 531 January 10, 2011 Marlene Wilhite Legal Risk & Opportunity in Employment The following assessment will discuss legal risks and opportunities in employment law when discussing three different scenarios at WireTech. I will discuss what WireTech’s liability is and what legal principles are relevant to the situation. In Legal Encounter 1, Clark was discharged after three months without any indication of unsatisfactory
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University of Phoenix Material NewCorp Legal Scenarios The following legal encounters involve NewCorp, your employer. You are required to provide a brief answer to questions asked at the end of each encounter. Your supervisor expects a substantive answer, not a recommendation to refer matters to an attorney. Your supervisor does not want to spend money on legal advice until after you provide an assessment. Legal Encounter 1 NewCorp hired Pat as manager of real property in Vermont. This position
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sides. NewCorp and its employees have an agency relationship, which NewCorp is the principal and the employees are the agents. NewCorp currently faces three encounters. In lieu of obtaining legal advice, NewCorp has requested Team C to make the following assessments regarding the legal risks and opportunities involved in these three legal encounters. The assessments will include the liabilities from NewCorp’s perspective as well as the employee’s perspective along with the regulatory and compliance
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fields soliciting their views as to what they considered to be the main issues confronting them in their jobs from a human resource management point of view. Open ended questions were asked of each respondent in an effort to solicit knowledgeable responses from informed sources. Although human resources and management issues are diverse and seemingly innumerable, a few basic issues rose to the forefront during the separate interview sessions. These basic issues are discussed in some depth, and a
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The Elements of Megan’s Law “The principal elements of Megan’s Law provides for the registration of sex offenders and the creation of a central registry, community notification, and notification procedures for the release of certain offenders” (Brooks, 1996, p. 764). In New Jersey, a person must register if he or she was “convicted, adjudicated delinquent, or acquitted by reason of insanity” of either aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, kidnapping, or endangering
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Gulf Coast Hospital Eva Michelle Carlin HCS/533 October 20, 2014 Dr. Kevin Lett Gulf Coast Hospital The Gulf Coast Hospital, a 350-bed facility, is located in New Orleans, Louisiana along the Gulf coast. The Gulf coast has been hit with numerous hurricanes and tropical storms and in 2005 Katrina hit land. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 season and made her way onto the shores of the Gulf coast on the morning of Monday
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Casualties of Law Enforcement: Homicide and Suicide Katherine Nielsen Buena Vista University Online Abstract This work is an overview of the increase in deaths of law enforcement agents: those killed on duty and those who kill themselves. As per a yearly report (Berman, 2014), the number of law enforcement agents killed while working rose almost a quarter this past year compared to years prior, especially ambush-style killings. Police officers across the country face potential dangers on their
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