HRM535

Course Description

This course is an overview of the law and social legislature impacting the workplace: the employer-employee contract; anti-discrimination law; employee testing and privacy; regulatory agencies; compensation and other statutory rights. Ethics and social responsibility are used as lenses through which these laws and practices are reviewed. Moreover, this course looks at the labor law from the international perspective so that students are well-equipped to function as business professionals in today’s increasingly global business environment. In order to accomplish this goal, this course reviews labor law and social legislature in the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, European Union together with an overview of international law and practices. While the focus of this course is rather international, the ultimate goal of this course is to provide students with an overview of the legal environment of the UAE; legal, social, economic and political forces impacting the law; a

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