LER 290 “Introduction to Employment Law.” You can find the syllabus at: http://www.ler.illinois.edu/labor/LEPcourse_listings.html
Planning on going to law school?
Or maybe working in a human resources department?
Or working for the Department of Labor or for a union?
Or running your own business?
Then you really need to know the information taught in this course. There are no prerequisites for taking LER 290, although it is recommended that students first take LER 100 “Introduction to Labor Studies.”
The course is taught by Prof. Maggie Cohen, who has both a law degree and a Ph.D., and is a labor activist, labor scholar, law professor, and labor studies professor.
Like all GLS courses, it is taught as an online seminar. Here is the formal course description:
This course addresses and critiques the content, interpretation, and applications of the laws that govern employer-employee relations in the American workplace. It will explore the historical sources, underlying ideology, and current content of anti-discrimination and civil rights laws, of laws that seek to guarantee a safe and healthy workplace for all Americans, of laws that guarantee minimum wages and overtime pay, of legal protections of privacy on the job, of unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation laws, and of laws that guarantee workers the right to collective action and collective bargaining.