Should employers be able to recruit through employee referrals and word-of-mouth? Does the law allow for such a recruitment technique? What specific restrictions does Title VII place on an employer’s ability to recruit and hire?

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Recruitment of Employees

Let’s begin our discussion on recruitment by using a fact pattern from a litigated case. Cone Mills Corporation had several recruiting procedures that gave preferential treatment to applicants who either had family members or friends working for the company. One of these procedures was to give priority to applicants who had family members employed by the company. The other procedure entailed having an unwritten policy that walk-in applicants had to have renewed every 2 weeks. This created a situation where only those walk-in applicants who had friends or family in the company would renew their applications because they would be the only ones informed of the informal rule, which was not presented in any manual or policy. These recruiting procedures were challenged as being discriminatory toward blacks in general, especially black women, because the informal network responsible for recruiting new employees was unavailable to them. The company claimed that the procedures were not designated to be discriminatory, but rather, to create a loyal family atmosphere within the plant (Lea v. Cone Mills Corp., 3001 F. Supp. 97).

Should employers be able to recruit through employee referrals and word-of-mouth? Does the law allow for such a recruitment technique? What specific restrictions does Title VII place on an employer’s ability to recruit and hire?

As part of this discussion, refer to the cases of EEOC v. Chicago Miniature Lamp Works and EEOC v. Consolidated Service System in Chapter 4, pages 161–162.

Answer in two to three separate Paragraph for this discussion and each Paragraph should be 6to 8 sentences each

How will you discover the problems that require attention? Include a description of how you intend to acquire the data supporting these. How will data be collected? How will the data be organized and maintained? How will it be analyzed?

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Summative Assessment: Implement Design

You have fine-tuned your identification of goals and objectives for both your targeted program and the evaluation you are prescribing. Your peers and supervisor have encouraged you to build your presentation for the stakeholder’s meeting by spending more time on the implementation plan.

Your goal is to augment your presentation. You decide to offer a clear picture of how you intend to operationalize your evaluation on Prosecuting Cold Cases through DNA Program.

Include the following:
• Presentation of need, intentions, goals, and objectives
• Describe the required financial and human resources.
• Present your embedded evaluation strategy.
• What evidence of success will you be looking for?
• What problems do you need to anticipate and monitor?
• Include a summary of your risk assessment plan.
• Summarize contingency plans.

• Data
• How will you discover the problems that require attention?
• Include a description of how you intend to acquire the data supporting these.
• How will data be collected?
• How will the data be organized and maintained?
• How will it be analyzed?

Include descriptions of the calipers shaping your ideology and the theory or theories that influence your evaluation strategies.

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed or similar references to support your assignment.

Include a slide with APA-formatted references.

Understand the major concepts, values and principles of the English criminal legal system. Understand the importance of primary and secondary sources of law and develop an understanding of their use, including contextual materials, to support the making of legal arguments. Communicate effectively in a written format, using appropriate legal terminology for the audience and making use of relevant data derived from primary sources when necessary. Identify and critically engage with relevant materials and information, evaluating legal arguments and material drawn from a range of appropriate sources.

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Advise Bo on the charge he may face in relation to the death of Marcus.

Assessment Instructions: Portfolio B

This piece of work is an individual submission and should therefore represent one student’s work. There are four parts to the portfolio and each part has its own formatting requirements, instructions, layout and content. Details pertaining to the plan, annotated bibliography and reflective writing can be found within subsidiary documentation that can be found on Blackboard, within the Assignments section:

1. Plan:

  • Refer to Plan: Portfolio B
  • No word limit; 1 A4 sheet

2. Problem Question:

  • For Problem Question Scenario, see below, p 2
  • Word limit: 1200 words maximum

3. Annotated Bibliography:

  • Refer to Annotated Bibliography: Portfolio B1
  • Word limit: 200 words maximum

4. Reflective Writing:

  • Refer to Reflective Writing: Portfolio B1
  • Word limit: 400 words maximum

The above pieces of work should be submitted as one document, with each piece of work beginning on a new page and in the order that they are listed above.

Problem Question Scenario: Portfolio B

Jake and Zak are both senior executives within a large financial organisation and, having met through work, became friends and house share. Despite being quite high up in the organisation (or perhaps due to the stress of their positions) they both use drugs for recreational purposes.  Neither of them would consider themselves drug addicts, but both would probably find it hard to give it up completely.

On the evening in question, Zak gets hold of some drugs that are ‘a bit special’ as they are celebrating that Jake has been successful in signing up a big new client and has received much praise and commendation at work. As Zak hands over the little packet to Jake, he tells him that this is ‘the good stuff’ and that he has earned it. Jake self-injects, but later starts to look unwell. Zak thinks that Jake may have had ‘too much’ and wants to get some medical help but Jake is adamant that he doesn’t want Zak to call for an ambulance as, if it comes out at work that they have been taking drugs, they would both lose their jobs. So, Zak looks up information on the internet about drug overdoses and finds a blog that gives helpful advice. Zak follows the directions as to what to do and Jake starts to look and feel better.

Once they are both satisfied that the worst of the situation is over, the friends take a walk around the garden to get some fresh air and then say goodnight and go to their own rooms. However, in the morning, when Zak goes to wake Jake up, he finds him in a comatose state. Zak calls 999 and Jake is taken urgently to hospital, where he is treated for a drugs overdose and placed on life support machinery. Unfortunately, after a long process of medical testing it is found that nothing can be done to save Jake and the life support is withdrawn. It transpires that had Zak sought medical assistance when Jake was first showing symptoms of overdosing, he could have been saved and would not have died.

Advise Zak on the charge he may face in relation to the death of Jake.

 

Recorded guidance on this assessment can be found in the relevant folder on Blackboard, within the ‘first sit’ Assignments section.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the major concepts, values and principles of the English criminal legal system.
  • Understand the importance of primary and secondary sources of law and develop an understanding of their use, including contextual materials, to support the making of legal arguments.
  • Communicate effectively in a written format, using appropriate legal terminology for the audience and making use of relevant data derived from primary sources when necessary.
  • Identify and critically engage with relevant materials and information, evaluating legal arguments and material drawn from a range of appropriate sources.
  • Conduct searches efficiently and effectively and access and reference appropriate legal and contextual materials.
  • Work independently to accomplish a defined outcome and reflect upon their own experience in order to formulate appropriate strategies for future progress.

Critically evaluate the UK’s approach to balancing the rights of individuals and the freedom of the media to report news with regard to relevant privacy case law.

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Media and Entertainment Law

Assessment criteria

You will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria:

Criterion Description

  1. Evidence of legal research and wider reading
  2. Use of your legal research to support your statements of law, assertions and ideas
  3. Identification and analysis of the relevant issues
  4. Application of the issues and research to the assessment question(s)
  5. Adopting a logical structure
  6. Evidence of critical evaluation
  7. Spelling, punctuation and grammar

Question 1

For this year’s Actors’ Guild Awards Ceremony, the famous actor Gerald O’Mahoney has declined to attend as he is currently in what he describes as ‘yet another rehab trip’ to hospital in London. He is, however, a keen blogger with hundreds of thousands of followers who like to hear his thoughts on current films and Hollywood gossip. Gerald watches the awards from his room and cannot resist blogging his thoughts as the ceremony unfolds.

As the actor and film star Robert Uppery walks down the red carpet, Gerald blogs: ‘Nice to see Robert looking so fit and tanned. Shame he left all that ‘toothpaste’ under his nose! LOL’

He goes on to write that, ‘Millie Roscovich is looking..err big..has she been at the donuts again? But that would be such a coincidence considering Harvey Goldstein says she’s expecting Gordon Strange’s baby…she’s positively blooming! Pity Gordon’s married to someone else….’.

Towards the end of the evening, as the contenders for Best Picture are announced, Gerald cannot help himself from commenting on the production company that refused to produce his latest script: ‘Amazing that Schlock Pictures don’t have a film in the list! If you look at their latest financial figures they can’t afford their next offering, Titanic 2 – The Return’ to hit an audience iceberg…they’ll be the ones to sink without trace!’

As the evening wears on Gerald becomes more depressed. He decides to tweet about his latest experience coming through arrivals at Heathrow Airport: ‘Had the worst experience coming through Heathrow the other day – such queues! I’ll bring a machine gun next time. That way I can chop that queue down to size!’

With reference to relevant case law and statute, explain the liability Gerald may have:
a) in defamation for his blogs with regard to the awards, and
b) in criminal law for his tweet regarding Heathrow Airport.

 

 

Question 2

“…the media’s entitlement to criticise the conduct of individuals even if there was nothing illegal about it could not be a pretext for invasion of privacy by disclosure or publication of purely private sexual encounters…”

PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] UKSC 26 2

Critically evaluate the UK’s approach to balancing the rights of individuals and the freedom of the media to report news with regard to relevant privacy case law.

How will you discover the problems that require attention? Include a description of how you intend to acquire the data supporting these. How will data be collected? How will the data be organized and maintained? How will it be analyzed?

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Summative Assessment: Implement Design

You have fine-tuned your identification of goals and objectives for both your targeted program and the evaluation you are prescribing. Your peers and supervisor have encouraged you to build your presentation for the stakeholder’s meeting by spending more time on the implementation plan.

Your goal is to augment your presentation. You decide to offer a clear picture of how you intend to operationalize your evaluation on Prosecuting Cold Cases through DNA Program.

Include the following:
• Presentation of need, intentions, goals, and objectives
• Describe the required financial and human resources.
• Present your embedded evaluation strategy.
• What evidence of success will you be looking for?
• What problems do you need to anticipate and monitor?
• Include a summary of your risk assessment plan.
• Summarize contingency plans.

• Data
• How will you discover the problems that require attention?
• Include a description of how you intend to acquire the data supporting these.
• How will data be collected?
• How will the data be organized and maintained?
• How will it be analyzed?

Include descriptions of the calipers shaping your ideology and the theory or theories that influence your evaluation strategies.

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed or similar references to support your assignment.

Include a slide with APA-formatted references.

In many jurisdictions in Canada, individuals charged with certain criminal offences are offered a chance to do something like counselling or community service in exchange of having the charges dropped. Discuss whether you think such diversion programs have a positive or negative effect on crime and the overall safety of the community.

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Criminology

Assignment Description

The Effects of Diversion Programs
In many jurisdictions in Canada, individuals charged with certain criminal offences are offered a chance to do something like counselling or community service in exchange of having the charges dropped. Discuss whether you think such diversion programs have a positive or negative effect on crime and the overall safety of the community.

Your paper must be supported with reference to criminological principles and theories covered in the course material.

Describe the crime the legislation you selected is designed to combat. Examine the various devices perpetrators of cyberstalking, cyberharassment, and/or cyberbullying use to target their victims. Evaluate at least two legal issues that arise from law enforcement efforts to combat cyberstalking, cyberharassment, or cyberbullying.

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Cyberstalking, Harassment, and Bullying Legislation

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read all the required resources for this week.

The advent of the Internet and the subsequent proliferation of online social media has given people worldwide new and exciting ways to communicate and connect with family and friends. However, there is the unfortunate reality that the world of social media also draws those whose intents are not to interact in socially desirable or appropriate ways. There have been numerous instances of cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and cyberharassment that have been sensationalized in news programs and televised dramas.

After instances of suicide and even murder, legislative bodies in many nations began to look for possible solutions to curb the problems associated with cyberstalking, cyberharassment, and cyberbullying. The United States and Great Britain appear to be leading the charge in developing legislation designed to put an end to the harmful effects of online antagonism.

For this week’s discussion, analyze current legislation that has been developed in efforts to end cyberstalking, cyberharassment, and cyberbullying. At times, official legislation fails to take into account the harm online crime inflicts on individuals. Select at least one prominent piece of legislation, and examine how it is intended to function to cease an antagonist’s behavior.

Your initial post must

Describe the crime the legislation you selected is designed to combat.
Examine the various devices perpetrators of cyberstalking, cyberharassment, and/or cyberbullying use to target their victims.
Evaluate at least two legal issues that arise from law enforcement efforts to combat cyberstalking, cyberharassment, or cyberbullying.

What potential liability does Veronica face, and what defenses, if any, should she consider?

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Midterm essay exam answers must not exceed eight pages. The typical length for a good answer is 3½ to 6 pages. It is unlikely a paper of less than 3 pages will have sufficient coverage of the issues or sufficient argument to receive a good grade. On the other hand, it is equally unlikely that a paper of more than about 6 pages will be concise and focused enough on the proper issues to receive a good grade.

1. Use IRAC format and write the essay in a narrative fashion.

2. Include a copy of the midterm essay exam question with your answer when it is submitted for grading.

Essay Question

As night approaches, Veronica and the other residents of her neighborhood are wondering where the burglar would strike next. While she isn’t sure exactly when, Veronica is certain that at some point in the near future, it will be her turn. Consequently, she purchases a huge, attack tortoise and allows it to roam freely in her house at night.

A week or two later, Burglar targets Veronica’s house and climbs onto the roof. As he is approaching an open skylight, he falls through a hole that Veronica had covered with a tarp until she could find the time to repair it. Burglar’s leg is injured when he lands on the living room floor.

Getting up, Burglar limps toward the front door and trips over the tortoise, who responds by giving his hand a vicious bite.

Realizing he has to get out of there quickly, Burglar rushes toward the front door, only to slip in a puddle of tortoise urine and further aggravate his already injured leg.

What potential liability does Veronica face, and what defenses, if any, should she consider?

Describe the different levels of armed conflict according to International Humanitarian Law. According to these rules and as of May-June 2022, how would you catergorize the situations in Yemen? Afghanistan? Moldova? Identify all of the parties to the conflicts; when each became an armed conflict; and other relevant analysis required to make the classification determination.

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Armed conflict

Question 1: Describe the different levels of armed conflict according to International Humanitarian Law. According to these rules and as of May-June 2022, how would you catergorize the situations in Yemen? Afghanistan? Moldova?

Question 2: Identify all of the parties to the conflicts; when each became an armed conflict; and other relevant analysis required to make the classification determination. Feel free to include an analysis of how the conflict may have changed in the last two years.

Question 3: What is the legal status of the civilian population in international armed conflicts in general? In your analysis, address Article 51 (3) of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, especially paragraphs 3) and (5) b).

The answers must have adequate headings and sub-headings and use relevant legal sources to substantiate the arguments, including treaty provisions, customary International humanitarian law, general principles of international humanitarian law and case law.

Identify a minimum of two specific crimes that were the targets of law enforcement crime-fighting efforts. Examine the methods employed by creators of online pornography and obscenity to produce materials in a variety of media for easier access to members of the general public. Examine the strategies utilized by law enforcement to combat pornography and obscenity. Analyze the legal issues that arise from attempts by authorities to utilize community standards in their efforts to fight pornography and obscenity.

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Obscenity Statutes

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Heins (2009) and Kinsley (2013) articles.

Technological advancements associated with the Internet and global economics were paralleled by new avenues for marketing pornography along with a variety of obscene materials. No longer do people need to venture forth to visit adult bookstores or sex shops. Availability of the desired commodity is now as easy as accessing one’s computing device. However, as access to sordid material is made decidedly easier, efforts to combat the dissemination of such material also becomes more fervent as pedophiles and human traffickers have turned to the Internet to target children and young people.

For your initial post, you must carefully review the required articles and examine at least two ways legal authorities have attempted to combat online pornography and obscenity. Your initial post must address the following points:

Identify a minimum of two specific crimes that were the targets of law enforcement crime-fighting efforts.
Examine the methods employed by creators of online pornography and obscenity to produce materials in a variety of media for easier access to members of the general public.
Examine the strategies utilized by law enforcement to combat pornography and obscenity.
Analyze the legal issues that arise from attempts by authorities to utilize community standards in their efforts to fight pornography and obscenity.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064220802712191

Article
Heins, M. (2009). Not in my backyard (Links to an external site.). Index on Censorship, 38(1), 96-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064220802712191