Choose a current legal issue that is affecting or could potentially affect employees. The issue must be related to current or pending legislation. It cannot be an issue that businesses have already addressed, for example, sexual harassment and discrimination based on federally protected classes. Assume you are the HR Director of a medium to large corporation or the owner of a small business. You are free to create the business scenario of your choice. Draft a memo informing your employees on the topic you chose. The purpose of this memo is to keep them up to date on a legal issue that might affect them or the company. At a minimum, your memo should include: A description of the legal issue in a way that your audience could understand it (in other words, read, analyze, then draft your explanation in language that your employees would understand). Include an explanation of the current state of that issue/law (this is to help them understand what the future might hold). A discussion on how your company will address that issue when/if the time comes.

GUIDELINES .

A minimum of 2 credible and verifiable sources

Follow APA style (making sources "verifiable")

All information relied upon must be obtained through Westlaw or ProQuest Academic

Only primary authority and scholarly sources are "credible"

Proofread and make final edits based on the Grading Criteria

CRITERIA Points Earned Points Possible

The legal issue is current, post-2020, and relevant to employees. 10

The legal issue is described coherently, ensuring that employees comprehend the issue (to be determined by the skill level of employees being addressed). 10

An explanation of how that legal issue may/will apply to employees. 20

The overall discussion is supported by information obtained from a scholarly source (retrieved through ProQuest or Westlaw). 20

The source (s) cited are properly formatted, as per APA criteria, on a separate References page. In-text citations, normally required by APA, would not be used in an HR memo to employees. 10

Professional memo format is used, with proper headings, an invitation to follow up with any questions they may have, a closing statement with contact information, and a signature line that includes full name and title. 20

The memo is proofread. No issues with the improper use of contractions, incoherent sentence structures, capitalization, punctuation, spacing, indentations, and font consistency (style, color, size, etc.) 10