Assignment 3- HR Management

Assignment #3 – Chapter 3

Please answer these questions to the best of your ability using the information that you gathered from

reading the chapter, along with information from your own work experience.

1. Give me three reasons why it is important to know about HR-related laws even if you are not

going to be a human resource manager yourself? Explain your answers.

2. Please go to Google News (http://news.google.com) and search for EMPLOYMENT

DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT.

a. Please summarize one of the stories that you found where an employee has sued an employer for

discrimination. Please include a reference for the article.

b. From what you know form reading the case and what you read in the story, do you think the

plaintiff(s) have a valid case of discrimination against the organization they are suing? Why or why

not? What HR-related law would back-up your decision? How would the law apply?