Topic
Agency and Employment Law
Instructions
Employment costs are arguably a business’s biggest expense. Consider how employment law regulates concepts such as discrimination, injuries on the job, employee vs. independent contractor, wrongful discharge, and unionization, to name a few. As you research for this assignment, consider the decisions made in this area are much more than business decisions but, in fact, impact lives. How do we reconcile between hurting employees and impacting the bottom-line? This is much tougher than it appears.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues: Ch. 18, 19, 20, and 21.
Scenario: As employment costs continue to escalate, it is incumbent upon organizations to continually monitor its internal operations to ensure best practices are being followed. To that end, your CEO has asked you to prepare a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis.
Prepare a SWOT analysis in one of the following formats:
- A 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint®
presentation, - A comparison table in a maximum of 1,050 words,
- or
- A maximum 1,050-word written analysis in Microsoft® Word.
Examine the following:
- Consider the impact a principal and agent creates on the business and its employees.
- Compare how express, implied, and apparent authority created by the principal and agent impacts equal opportunities for employees.
- Identify the laws protecting workers against discriminatory practices.
- Evaluate how the legal protections present in the workplace differ for employee and independent contractors.
Cite a minimum of two references for the four content areas taken from a business or legal resource. At least one reference must be from the University Library.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Answer preview
Agency law refers to the association between an individual, or “agent,” that acts in behalf of another individual, government or company normally termed as the principal or master. Notably, agency law is a field of commercial legislation dealing that deals with a set of quasi-contractual, contractual as well as non-contractual fiduciary associations that involve an individual known as the agent that is permitted to act on behalf of principal in order to develop legal associations with a third party (Bagley, 2015). Agency law permits principals to act via agents in addition to ensuring that principals relying on agents do no escape liability or other effects of their choices. In certain situations, a principle will be held responsible for his or her agent’s torts.
Slide count: 10
Word count: 1079