MGT 434 FINAL EXAMINATION

MGT 434 FINAL EXAMINATION

MGT 434 FINAL EXAMINATION
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Welcome to the MGT434, Employment Law, final exam.  You are to answer 5 of the following 9 questions with responses of at least 200 words and post your final exam to the Assignments link.  Each response is worth 3 points.
1.         Jenner began working for Encyclopedia Britannica as a part-times sales representative in 1983. Her position required selling Encyclopedia Britannica’s educational products. Until 1995, she worked as a part-times sales representative and then a district manager for Encyclopedia Britannica.  In 1995, Encyclopedia Britannica decided to separate the parent division from the school and library division and reorganize its sales force by “outsourcing:” contracting with individual “regional directors” who would in turn contract with individual sales representatives.   The same people who had worked for Encyclopedia Britannica under the previous arrangement filled many of the positions under the new structure, in which branch managers became separately incorporated regional directors and district managers while sales representatives took positions with the newly formed companies.
Jenner signed a contract with Lee, a former Encyclopedia Britannica branch manager who had formed her own corporation and gathered a sales force comprised largely of former Encyclopedia Britannica sales representatives.  Jenner eventually became a territory coordinator, a position slightly above sales representative but still reporting to Lee.  In 1998, Jenner was told that she was losing her territory and would no longer be selling Encyclopedia Britannica products.  Jenner sued Encyclopedia Britannica, claiming that the loss of her territory was effectively a termination.  Was her suit successful, i.e., was Jenner an employee or an independent contractor?  Why?...

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