Legal Scenarios LAW531 Legal Scenario 1 In this scenario, Pat relocated to Vermont to become a property manager for NewCorp. After working for three months, he was advised that he would be let go with severance pay for 30 days. Pat was never notified of any problem, and the supervisor told him only "that things were not working out". When he was hired, Pat received NewCorp's personnel manual, which outlined the company's process for handling unsatisfactory employees. He also
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Legal Risk and Opportunity in Employment Law 531 Charles Cook February 7, 2011 Legal Risk and Opportunity in Employment Legal Encounter 1 NewCorp violated a breach of contract with Pat in this case. While NewCorp is an “at-will” employer, they provided an employee handbook to Pat which outlined the procedure for disciplinary process involving the requirement of corrective action. NewCorp failed to follow their own process which supports the wrongful termination suit. Additionally, the
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The Three Encounters 1 The Three Encounters of NewCorp Pamela A. McCullough University of Phoenix The Three Encounters 2 The Three Encounters of NewCorp FastServe Inc. is a 25 million dollar branded sports Apparel Company with an employee roster of 350 people working in the company in direct marketing. The company has two online marketing and distribution channels which they opened up for boys and girls. They now moved 10 percent of the workforce to manage the online
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Scenario 1: Most employee handbooks come with rules and regulations and terms of contract of the employment that any reasonable person can qualify as an expressed and implied contract. This is so because procedures, policies, and promises are present in an employee personnel manual. For instance, once an employee receives a handbook from the employer, the interpretation of this action constitutes contract. Therefore, Grey has a case if he chooses to sue NewCorp for a breach of implies employment
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NewCorp Scenarios Legal Brief Three legal encounters that NewCorp is contending with are unsatisfactory performance and corrective action plan, sexual harassment and discrimination, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance Legal Encounter 1 NewCorp hired Pat in Vermont causing Vermont state law to apply to this legal encounter. NewCorp had Pat sign a document stating that NewCorp must issue a corrective action plan but failed to uphold this contract by eliminating
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#1 Liabilities Facing Newcorp When an employee fills out an application, the form concludes with the acknowledgement of employment at-will. This practice is widely used unless employment parameters are established by a contract. Pat acknowledges signing a statement of employment at-will, but he claims the employee manual illustrates the procedure used when contending with unsatisfactory performance. The case of Dillon v. Champion Jogbra, Inc. examined the ambiguity of the manual. On the first page
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exists by common consent and specifies duties and responsibilities on both sides. NewCorp and its employees have an agency relationship, which NewCorp is the principal and the employees are the agents. NewCorp currently faces three encounters. In lieu of obtaining legal advice, NewCorp has requested Team C to make the following assessments regarding the legal risks and opportunities involved in these three legal encounters. The assessments will include the liabilities from NewCorp’s perspective
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Legal Encounters LaTausha Freeman Law/531 December 10, 2012 Lillian Watson Legal Encounters This paper will answer questions posed during employment legal encounters based on law requirements to indicate liability and ramifications associated based on the scenario. Legal Encounter 1 Cheeseman outlines that employment is subject to the common law of contracts (2010). Pat entered into an agreement with NewCorp for employment; acting on the premise that NewCorp would uphold
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Scenario 1 In the employee manual, it clearly states that if an employee’s performance is unsatisfactory that the employee will be put on a corrective action plan. This presents a liability issue for NewCorp. One of NewCorp’s managers did not follow the proper steps to let an employee go. This is a legal problem and the employee does have a clear position for a lawsuit. It would be my suggestion that NewCorp would try to rectify the problem before said employee seeks legal advice. If NewCorp would
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|Week Three: Contracts | | |Details |Due |Points | |Learning Team |Review the assignment options described below. These options are found in the University of | |10 | |ERM Paper
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