Employment Discrimination Litigation (Landy, 2005)

This home study course entails the independent study of the text Employment Discrimination Litigation (Landy, 2005), followed by the completion of a multiple-choice test on-line. Participants who pass the test will receive 19 CE credits. Failing participants may retake the test as often as they wish at no additional charge, and receive CE credit when they do pass.

A copy of the text for this course is available at Amazon.com, where you may purchase a copy of the text for about $75.

Upon completion of this home study program, the participant will have read and understood the entire 600+ page book, and will be able to demonstrate, through responses to a written test, theoretical and practical knowledge of the following aspects of employment discrimination litigation:

1. Federal laws
2. Descriptive and inferential statistics as applied to employment discrimination litigation
3. Federal case law
4. The litigation process for various types of federal employment discrimination lawsuits
5. Adverse impact and unintentional discrimination
6. Disparate treatment (intentional discrimination)
7. The legal and professional standards for employee selection
8. Proving sex discrimination
9. Proving age discrimination
10. Enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act
11. Wage and hour litigation
12. Challenges and techniques of being an expert witness
13. Related aspects of the science and practice of personnel selection.

This CE program is intended for licensed, doctorate-level psychologists, as well as other interested professionals (e.g., senior human resource executives and consultants; upper-level managers).

The fee for this home-study program is $190, which is $10 per CE credit. The fee is fully refundable for 60 days or until the post-test is taken, whichever comes first.

A copy of the text for this course is available at Amazon.com, where you may purchase a copy of the text for about $75.

This home-study program entails the independent study of a textbook. The editor of the textbook is Frank J. Landy, Ph.D., a former President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP, another name for Division 14), and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, as well as the author of many widely cited journal articles. The authors of the 16 chapters of the book include such recognized experts in I/O psychology as Frank Landy, Arthur Gutman, Richard Jeanneret, and James Outtz, as well as experts from the fields of law and statistics. This edited book is part of the Professional Practice Series sponsored by the SIOP.

Publication citation:

Landy, F.J. (Ed.) (2005). Employment Discrimination Litigation: Behavioral, Quantitative, and Legal Perspectives. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

From the publisher:

In one comprehensive resource, this groundbreaking book assembles the facts, insights, lessons learned, and trends that are most relevant in the field of employment discrimination litigation. Written by a distinguished panel of lawyers, scientists, judges, scholars, and human resource managers, Employment Discrimination Litigation draws together the most current information from various disciplines -- law, psychology, statistics, economics, sociology, and human resources -- to help professional psychologists navigate their way through the tangle of employment law.

This practical resource includes perspectives from the point of view of both plaintiff and defendant for cases involving questions of race, gender, disability, and age. In addition, it offers an overview of the process by which complaints are filed, and the authority represented by various case law. Employment Discrimination Litigation will illuminate myriad issues such as Daubert motions, class certification issues, the setting of cut scores that will withstand challenge, common statistical analyses of adverse impact, and merit-based issues. Employment Discrimination Litigation also:

• Presents a temporal description of a typical employment discrimination case from start to finish
• Outlines the major guidelines that are often invoked in employment litigation -- the A.P.A. Standards, Uniform Guidelines, and SIOP Principles
• Reviews litigation related to the Fair Labor Standards Act
• References written judicial opinions that relate the activities and devices most often employed by industrial and organizational psychologists

The book also summarizes and integrates the key points of employment discrimination litigation to present a vision for the future.

APR Testing Services (APR) has no known conflict of interest with respect to this CE program. APR has not received any commercial support for this CE program.