$1.$ Chapter $4$

Understand why recruitment practices play a key role in ensuring equal employment opportunity.

Know more about how affirmative action programs work and how recruitment is central to achieving affirmative action goals.

Be generally familiar with visa programs that permit some foreign nationals to work in the United States and the global problem of labor trafficking.

Understand why certain pre$-$employment inquiries should not be made of applicants.

Understand how certain statements made by employers to prospective employees pose legal problems, particularly fraud claims.

$2.$ Chapter $5$

Understand the legal grounds for holding employers liable for harmful acts of their employees, including respondeat superior and negligent hiring liability.

Understand why certain statements made about current and former employees can subject employers to defamation claims and when such statements are shielded by qualified privilege.

Have a greater appreciation for the significant role played by immigrants in the U$.$S$.$ labor force and awareness of the legal responsibilities of employers under the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

Be more aware of how to conduct lawful and effective background checks on prospective employees, including compliance with Fair Credit Reporting Act requirements.

$3.$ Chapter $6$

Have a grasp of the legal considerations surrounding drug testing and of the procedures that should be used to ensure the validity of any drug testing that is done.

Understand ADA and GINA requirements for medical exams and genetic tests including when medical and genetic information can be lawfully obtained, the type of information that can be obtained, and the uses to which that information can be put.

Understand how employment tests can give rise to disparate impact claims and how courts go about deciding such cases.

Have a general awareness of test validation and what employers should do to ensure that the tests they use are legally defensible.