MANAGEMENT EMPLOYMENT LAW

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Welcome to the second examination for Employment Law (MANA 4320.001)! The exam is due at https://uta.instructure.com/courses/45489/assignments/556650 no later than 11:59pm on Friday, March 20, 2020. A student’s grade on this examination will be reduced by 5% for every twelve hours that the exam is late (e.g., minus 5% if submitted by noon on 3/21, minus 10% [total] if submitted by 11:59pm on 3/21, minus 15% [total] if submitted by noon on 3/22, etc.). Please submit the examination in a .docx file using the template provided at https://uta.instructure.com/courses/45489/assignments/556650. This examination is setup in Canvas for anonymous grading. Please do not put your name or any other identifying information in your exam submissions. There is a place in the header of the response template for you to put your UTA ID number. Your analyses of the case and the creation of your written submission should be your own independent work. However, this is a take-home exam. So, a little more clarity might be needed… I think these types of behaviors are perfectly acceptable:

• The use of any and all non-human resources (e.g., printed materials, hypertext and hypermedia materials, audio recordings, video records, works of art, etc.) – assuming that direct quotations are identified and cited and assuming that any big ideas from sources other than your own original analysis are cited. You may use any of the standard citation systems that you like, as long as it’s one of these: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, Bluebook, Harvard, McGill, ALWD, Tanbook, Greenbook, Maroonbook, OSCOLA, AAA, or APSA – either in-text or in footnotes.

• Using the services of the UTA Writing Center – provided that you disclose that you are working on an examination and you provide the tutor with a complete copy of this exam document.

• Receiving assistance in finding sources from a university librarian – provided that

you disclose that you are working on an examination and you provide the librarian with a complete copy of this exam document.

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• Receiving technical assistance from the UTA OIT Help Desk, Canvas Support, or/and Nexis Uni Support.

• Sharing non-human resources (e.g., printed materials, hypertext and hypermedia materials, audio recordings, video records, works of art, etc.) with other students in the class.

• Receiving non-human resources (e.g., printed materials, hypertext and hypermedia materials, audio recordings, video records, works of art, etc.) from other students in the class.

• Discussing the exam’s content with other students in the class.

Here are the relative weights of the exam components:

Component Percent

(You’re welcome.) Issue 10 % Rule 10 %

General Manager Analysis/Application 15 % Conclusion 5 %

Assistant Manager Analysis/Application 15 % Conclusion 5 %

Shift Supervisor Analysis/Application 15 % Conclusion 5 %

Outside Retail Salesperson Analysis/Application 15 % Conclusion 5 % See the University’s statements on Academic Integrity, Acknowledging Sources, and the UTA Library’s Tutorial on Plagiarism. Once class adjourns on March 5, 2020, Graca will not communicate with anyone with respect to any aspect of the exam until 8:00am on March 24, 2020. Good luck!

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Fun at Flowering Fern Flowering Fern Enterprises has been in the landscaping wholesale business for some time. Given their success as wholesalers, they are now trying their hand at retail landscaping sales (think: Calloway’s or the Lawn & Garden department at Lowe’s or the Garden Center at Home Depot). Your colleague Ellen Kassman has prepared job descriptions and specifications for four new positions that Flowering Fern needed to create: 1) Retail Store General Manager, 2) Assistant Manager, 3) Shift Supervisor, and 4) Outside Salesperson. They are attached. Unfortunately, Ellen forgot to include the FLSA Wage Category on all four positions. And she is now quarantined on a COVID-19-infested cruise ship at the Port of Tunis. She doesn’t have access to the Internet or any communication technologies. But you heard about the quarantine on the news and you actually saw her on the deck of the cruise ship in some B-roll from a CNN helicopter. So, the task has been left to you to analyze the position descriptions and specifications in light of 29 C.F.R. §§ 541.0-541.710 (also attached) and determine the correct FLSA Wage Category (i.e., whether any exemption applies). Your company’s chief human resource officer asked that your analysis and conclusion for each position not exceed 200 words (200 words per job * 4 jobs = 800 words total). (The attached template contains the “legal issue” and the “rule(s)” since the Flowering Fern has done this type of analysis before, albeit with wholesale, rather than retail, positions. The stuff already in the template totals 51 words, so I guess the document should contain no more than 851 words (i.e., [200 words per job * 4 jobs] + 51 words in the template = 851 words total maximum). The CHRO is a stickler for word limits!) Since the CHRO was delayed in getting this assignment to you, he has extended the deadline to 11:59pm on Friday, March 20, 2020. Good luck!