baijugoradia/rest-api ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a simple REST API for managing employees and their related info.

I want to be able to create, view, update, and delete departments, employees, contacts, and addresses. Employees should belong to a department, and an employee can have contact details and an address attached to them. The API should return JSON responses and use endpoints like /api/department, /api/employee, /api/contact, and /api/address.

Please make the employee flow support nested contact and address data when creating or updating an employee, and make sure deleting a department is blocked if any employee is still linked to it. I also want the basic Laravel setup working, with migrations, env config, and a local server ready to run. If you need to check current framework docs online, go ahead and do that.