Management Programs

Managers frequently make employment decisions that have legal implications for their organizations. This interactive workshop focuses on the legal issues associated with day-to-day employment-related decisions and actions with emphasis on how to manage in a legally sound manner.

Using case studies, practical examples, and discussion, this workshop enables you to understand the law in the context of problems that most typically arise. Relevant laws and their application to daily operations are addressed in a manager's terms and context.

Key Topics

• Understanding the legal framework
• Making nondiscriminatory employment decisions
• Compliance with wage-and-hour laws
• Safety and health rights and responsibilities
• Required versus discretionary leaves of absence
• Managing employees covered by labor agreements
• Individual rights and wrongful discharge
• Preventive employment practices
• Interviewing and making selection decisions
• Day-to-day operations
• Managing performance: feedback, appraisal, and discipline
• Downsizing or terminating employees
• Special legal situations
• Sexual and other types of harassment
• Medical and religious accommodations
• Understanding and avoiding retaliation
• Privacy, drug, and alcohol issues

Special Features

You will receive a manager's legal reference manual to use as a resource.

Who Will Benefit

Those who supervise others or have responsibility for employee-related decisions

Instructors

Susan W. Brecher, Shelley M. Greenwald, Barbara B. Kalish, Andrea M. Basile Terrillion

Your instructors will be selected from these faculty members.

This course can also be taken online at www.ecornell.com/ilr and is available as part of Cornell's Blended Learning solutions.