Case Study. It is similar to the activities you have completed for your discussion board and subjective essays, but the deliverable (paper you submit) is more substantial. Your case study is based on a work scenario. For this scenario, pretend that you are an employee reporting to the HR director and you are preparing a memorandum for the company president.
The memo will analyze a set of facts that occurred in your company and conclude whether your company is liable. This is a role-play assignment, which might be new to you. For the duration of this assignment, pretend that you are an HR employee reporting to the HR Director. He/she has asked you to do a legal analysis and come to a conclusion about possible liability for your company given the specific fact scenario (which you invent). Play the role all the way through your memo, just as if you were actually providing the requested report of this incident to the HR Director.
There are several cases listed at the ends of the chapters. (Chapter 12: pp. 398-400, Chapter 13: pp. 433-435) Choose one case as the basis for your assignment. Please choose a chapter and case that is interesting to you .
Look up the case on the Internet and read about it. You will come back to the case later for the writing part of the assignment. Be sure you understand the important facts of the case and why (or why not) liability was found in that case.
Pretend that a scenario “similar” to the case you chose has arisen in your company. You will have to invent a specific factual scenario! Use your imagination! Make it similar, but different, from the one you chose. As a matter of fact, to make the assignment more interesting, create a set of facts that do not arise to the level of whichever kind of liability (or cause of action) occurred in the case you chose from the book . Create a set of facts that are similar to liability but do not create a prima facie case. (Yes, I know I said it three times, but I wanted to be sure you understand what I mean.)
The HR Director has asked you to prepare a memorandum outlining the legal issues and outlining a recommendation.
Rather than a scholarly paper format, please use a technical writing format.
Here is a list of grading features for your memo: MHR 6401, Employment Law 3
• Use standard memorandum format. (If you are unfamiliar with memo format, please look on the Internet using the key words “memo format” and choose any of the generally accepted formats. Be sure to put the term “Memorandum” at the top!)
• Use these paragraph “headings” for your content:
o Background (invented summary of the factual situation in your company),
o Issue (statement of the primary relevant legal issue; use a format similar to: “The issue is ‘whether’ such and such actions constitute such and such discrimination.”),
o Rule (statement of the status of the law in regard to that type of harassment),
o Application (see paragraphs below for additional explanation),
o Conclusion (statement of the way you believe your company’s pretend scenario will be resolved based on your research of other cases),
o Recommendation (make a firm recommendation to the President regarding the best resolution in this case and a method of preventing such a situation from occurring in the future),
o References (Include at least three source citations for your paper: probably your textbook, the actual case, and a statute or other case).
• The memo should not be over three double-spaced pages in length, excluding the references. You will have to be concise in what you say!