Assignment Introduction: Laws $6015$ Final Take Home Assignment

The final exam is a take home, open book assignment. The assignment must be

completed individually. Please regard this as an exam where no communication is

allowed. The assignment requires course materials and external resources.

Assignment Value

The assignment is worth $30\%$ of your final grade.

Assignment Instructions

The assignment must be double spaced to a maximum of $8$ pages. The title page,

reference page and page with a link to every article$/$source are not included in the page

count.

Answer the questions found in the scenario below.

Scenario

You recently took a position in a bustling corporate office. The Human Resource

Manager has asked for your opinion on the issues presented in the following

paragraphs.

Tensions reached a boiling point when a long$-$standing dispute between two employees,

Mark and Sarah, escalated into a violent altercation where Mark threw a stapler across

the room $$ narrowly missing Sarah$$s head. Amidst the chaos, it became apparent that

Sarah's chronic attendance issues have exacerbated the situation, fueling resentment

among colleagues who've had to $$pick up the slack$.$ The manager has discussed

terminating both Sarah and Mark. Provide legal advice for the manager to consider

regarding Sarah and Mark$$s continued employment. Can the employer terminate the

employee? If there are risks, what could the employer provide the employee in order to

ensure that the terminate is legally defensible.

Jenna, a marketing specialist, has an employment contract that was renewed yearly

over a seven year period. Jenna's contract was renewed annually to align with the

company's growth trajectory and budget constraints. You are asked your opinion if there