I recently was promoted to a managerial position in our company and my job is to oversee 50 factory workers. Although I have no experience with looking over people I am eager to start my new job. I recently used to work in product design so I have somewhat of a background on what we are doing as a company. After the first day of my new job I came across that workers are working past their 8-hour shift. I would like to have a meeting with you about my concerns in the situation. I spoke with the factory supervisor expressing concern because we do not have the budget to be paying workers overtime. He explained to me that we are “inviting” workers to work past their shift with is illegal. If someone were to find out about this it would put me
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The first would be to not do anything about the workers going past their normal shifts. Although the workers are keeping production on time we are not paying them for working the extra hours which is very illegal. Keeping this situation going would either make us more money or if someone were to find out we could be putting the whole company in a worse situation than it is already in. With that being said I believe that this should not be the right alternative.
A second alternative would be to investigate less expensive materials that still would satisfy Hobby Lobby. This would benefit us because we would not have to be using bad ethics. Even though this is a risk to our partnership with Hobby Lobby I believe it will show out customers right now and future customers that even though we cannot use the best of the best products it would still show that we would do whatever it takes to keep their business without company. Which would also show Company’s Hobby Lobby works with that we are a business that gets the job done no matter the situations that we run …show more content…
Quality Control
What bothers me the most about this is that we the supervisor that reports to me knew that workers are working overtime and not being paid, I assume the owners do not know about this because I know how they are Christian based people and would not put up with these ethical standards. I suggest until we are able to pay the workers the money they deserve we need to stop making them work past normal shifts although this puts us in a bind I believe the owners would rather us be using good ethics rather than something illegal.
Conclusion
I know that our main goal is to stop this illegal practice because we put ourselves in a bad spot. I plan to keep finding different ways so that we could help our company without losing money. I am contacting you about this situation because I value the relationship we have with Hobby Lobby and I feel like you can do something about this dilemma more than I
The first would be to not do anything about the workers going past their normal shifts. Although the workers are keeping production on time we are not paying them for working the extra hours which is very illegal. Keeping this situation going would either make us more money or if someone were to find out we could be putting the whole company in a worse situation than it is already in. With that being said I believe that this should not be the right alternative.
A second alternative would be to investigate less expensive materials that still would satisfy Hobby Lobby. This would benefit us because we would not have to be using bad ethics. Even though this is a risk to our partnership with Hobby Lobby I believe it will show out customers right now and future customers that even though we cannot use the best of the best products it would still show that we would do whatever it takes to keep their business without company. Which would also show Company’s Hobby Lobby works with that we are a business that gets the job done no matter the situations that we run …show more content…
Quality Control
What bothers me the most about this is that we the supervisor that reports to me knew that workers are working overtime and not being paid, I assume the owners do not know about this because I know how they are Christian based people and would not put up with these ethical standards. I suggest until we are able to pay the workers the money they deserve we need to stop making them work past normal shifts although this puts us in a bind I believe the owners would rather us be using good ethics rather than something illegal.
Conclusion
I know that our main goal is to stop this illegal practice because we put ourselves in a bad spot. I plan to keep finding different ways so that we could help our company without losing money. I am contacting you about this situation because I value the relationship we have with Hobby Lobby and I feel like you can do something about this dilemma more than I