HHP 4600 Law and Public Health
Module 8a PowerPoint Questions for Contracts
- What is a contract?
- Name the elements of a contract
- How do an express and implied contract differ?
- Name two kinds of express contracts.
- What must a plaintiff do in order to be successful in a lawsuit alleging a breach of contract?
- How is an independent contractor different from an employee?
- Why might this difference make a difference in filing a lawsuit?
- Why is the employee handbook important in employee law and maintaining at will employer status?
- What can an employer do with the handbook to prevent successful lawsuits by employees using the handbook as a contract and voiding at will status?
HHP 4600 Law and Public Health
Module 8b PowerPoint Questions for Human Resources Law
- If an employee comes to a manager seeking rehabilitation assistance for drug and alcohol abuse and the manager fires the employee, will the manager likely be legally supported under ADA?
- Will the manager have more legal support under ADA if the employee is terminated after a post accident test reveals the employee was using drugs when the employee caused the accident? How is this case different from the case in question 1?
- Describe the best practice or most optimal legal and cost efficient way to test applicants for drug use before hire.
- Explain what it means to achieve “random” selection of employees for drug tests.
- What is the difference in quid pro quo and hostile work environment in sexual harassment?
- Can your company be held liable if a non-employee harasses your employee?
- Can your company be held liable if a non-supervisor employee harasses an employee?
- Do harassment laws cover actions when the perpetrator and victim are of the same gender?
- Even if not targeted by the alleged harassing perpetrator, can a non-targeted employee file a valid claim of harassment?
- How can affirmative action be achieved without discrimination?
- Could an organization have a good affirmative action plan and be diverse in some regards, but be guilty of de facto or other discrimination? Explain how that could happen.
- What is the difference between a reference and background check?
- Is it against the law to give accurate, documented, but negative
information as reference about a former employee to a potential employer? If not, why are employers reluctant to give references?
8/11/20
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