Reasonable Accommodations, is an exploration of the heart of the ADA – accommodating persons with disabilities and integrating them into the workforce. A handout page of notes is included with the program.
Subjects: Legal Issues & Ethics
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3 Steps to Ethical Decisions
This program introduces the process. We hear from a former Enron executive as well as six ethics experts who discuss the pressures people can feel that may lead them to make poor decisions. We explore the importance of being aware of our core values as well as the standards of behavior expected by our organizations and our communities. Most importantly, we learn the 3 steps we can each take when faced with a tough ethical choice to help us make the best possible decision. These are: The Compliance Test; The Ripple Effect; The Gut Check.
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Ethical Situations to Consider
This program presents us with 8 dramatized scenarios. These stories represent familiar ethical issues most of us will face at some time. By discussing these situations and applying the 3 Steps process in each case, employees gain valuable practice and reinforcement.
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Legal Survival Skills for the Modern Manager – Study guide
This study guide covers the principles of employment laws and regulations and is a compliment to the Legal Survival Skills for the Modern Manager video.
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Legal Survival Skills for the Modern Manager
It’s not easy to be a supervisor these days. You’ve got to get the job done, often with fewer employees and a tighter budget. Plus, you’re expected to know exactly what to do or say every time a “people problem” comes up. This video was created to help you find your way through the maze of employment laws and regulations, while at the same time maximizing the performance of your workers. Our story goes behind the scenes during the first eventful weeks when a new manager takes over a team in the middle of an important project. Our narrator, Alan Levins, an Employment Law Attorney with Littler Mendelson PC, The National Employment and Labor Law Firm(R), explains critical legal issues as you witness this manager’s struggle to win the respect and cooperation of her sometimes unruly crew. Includes free study guide and extra study guides are available for purchase.
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Torts
Tort time! What’s a tort? Well, we’ll give you a hint – a tort is a wrong one person does to another. That means assault and battery, theft, defamation and other forms of dastardly behavior.
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Contract Law
Get your pen and paper ready, because the Standard Deviants will show you the ins and outs on sealing a deal. It’s time to learn about contract law. You’ll come face to face with offers, counter offers, and withdrawing offers, not to mention incompetent drywallers, delusionary bigwigs and a dog dressed up as a turtle.
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Contract Law: The Sequel
The return of the contract! This piece of paper is a monster that just won’t go away. Once you sign your name, you’re up to your elbows in alligators, legal detriments, enforcement options and a theory inspired by a peppercorn.
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Breaking the Deal
Want to know how to get out of a contract? There are seven, yes, seven reliable defenses to get out of a contract, and they’ll cover them all, plus what to do when someone else breaks a contract with you.
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Business Law: The Basics
What exactly is a law? Where do laws come from anyway? And how does this all apply to business law? You’ll find out as the Standard Deviants let the light of truth shine on common laws, civil laws, contract laws, and maybe even your in-laws.