Charles Sturt University Wilson v Southwest Airlines Company Case Essay

I need this done by 3pm MST on Saturday the 22nd.

Please choose either one of the options below.

Comments from professor on the first assignment:

• Remember this is an essay with an introduction, body and conclusion. For your introduction, review what your paper topic and then your last sentence should be “This paper will….” And then tell your reader what they will read.
• Conclusion?Remember all essays have a conclusion to wrap up your paper.
• Journal names are always in italics, please review APA7
• Also make sure you use APA headings to separate out the questions that are asked for in the assignment.

Please review everything below including the grading rubric.

APA 7 is required for all sources used and cited – two peer reviewed articles and total of three references are minimum.

Textbook for the course:

Miller, R. L. (2017). Business law today: The essentials: Text and summarized cases (11th ed.). Cengage Learning.

ISBN: 9781305574793

Option #1: Ethical Issues in Employment Law

You have just been promoted to the Human Resources Department of a Fortune 500 company. Your director asks each of the HR employees to research an employment law issue and draft a memo that discusses that specific issue. Also, he wants to ensure that each employee has a clear understanding of the issue present. Therefore, you are to include in your memo either a specific case that supports this employment law or utilizes your own experience. This experience can stem from professional or personal situations in the business world as an employee or employer. Lastly, your director wants you to include any ethical issues that your company may be confronting in reference to this employment law. Consider employment law with wages and hours, OSHA, age, disabilities, and minors working.

Be sure that your focus is twofold: first, on an area of employment law and second, on a potential ethical issue within that area of law.

If you have not personally or professionally confronted an issue, consider an issue that could arise within the realm of employment law and describe it or search for a case on the internet.

Address the following in your memo:

• Identify and clearly define the relevant law, either defining a legal doctrine, provisions of law, or elements of a specific cause of action.
• Compare and contrast the applicable law to the employment law issue you identified.
• Apply facts from your situation to the applicable law, doctrine, or cause of action studied.
• Clearly summarize lessons learned from the week as they apply to your fact pattern and make links to the readings and/or module.
• Include new thoughts or ideas based on the module information—this is your reflection/insight, which logically would flow from each information point presented.
• Identify and briefly discuss any related ethical issues.

Your memo should be three to four pages in length, not including the title or references pages. Also, include three credible sources in your memo. For assistance drafting the proper memo format, visit the CSU Global Writing Center and review the information in the “Writing Templates” (Links to an external site.) section. Click on “Memos” (Links to an external site.) for instructions and samples. The MGT315 Business Law Library Guide (Links to an external site.) can help you with finding quality resources.

Review the grading rubric and make sure to conform to APA guidelines in the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Be sure to reach out to your instructor early in the week if you have difficulty identifying an appropriate topic.

Option #2: Employment Discrimination and the Bona Fide Occupation Qualification

You have just been promoted to the human resources department of a Fortune 500 company. Your Director calls you into a meeting and explains that in hiring a prospective employee, there are legitimate reasons for not hiring someone. For example, the prospective employee may not fill legal requirements (e.g., he or she is a minor and cannot complete the tasks of the job based on the young age) or positional requirements (e.g., he or she does not have the required experience or education for the position and the employer demonstrates this requirement as a business necessity).

Neither of these examples is discrimination. However, there are protected classes, which cannot be discriminated against for various reasons. Title VII provides five protected classes, which cannot be discriminated against for various reasons. For a review of the protected classes, see page IV of this week’s module. However, Title VII only applies to companies with 15 employees or more.

Further, the bona fide occupational qualification (“BFOQ”) can be argued as a reason for discrimination by the employer, even of the protected classes. Important, though, is that race and color (two of the five protected classes under Title VII) are not on the list of permissible BFOQs.

Your director asks you to draft a memo with the following information:

• Research the internet for a case where an individual claimed discrimination either in his or her hiring or firing and the employer argued a permissible BFOQ was the reason behind the failure to hire or behind the firing.
• Compare and contrast the applicable law BFOQ to the case study you identified.
• Identify and clearly define the relevant law utilized by the court in determining the outcome of the case. This includes defining an applicable legal doctrine, provisions of law, or elements of a specific cause of action.
• Apply facts from the researched situation to the applicable law, doctrine, or cause of action.

Then, address the following:

• Analyze Title VII and determine if it should apply to every company, regardless of the number of employees.
• Analyze Title VII/BFOQ requirements and determine if race and color should be permissible BFOQ or whether the BFOQ exceptions to employment discrimination be removed completely.

In answering this question, be sure to consider the effect on the business world and society generally. Clearly summarize lessons learned from the week as they apply to your researched case. Identify new thoughts or ideas based on the module information and identify any related ethical issues.

Your memo should be three to four pages in length, not including the title or references pages. Also, include three credible sources in your memo. For assistance drafting the proper memo format, visit the CSU Global Writing Center and review the information in the Writing Templates (Links to an external site.) section – view Memos (Links to an external site.) for specific instructions and samples. The MGT315 Business Law Library Guide (Links to an external site.) can help you with finding quality resources.

Review the grading rubric and make sure to conform to APA guidelines in the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Be sure to reach out to your instructor early in the week if you have difficulty identifying an appropriate topic.

Rubric

MGT315 Mod 2 CT

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