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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