Introduction
This paper is going to assess a legal or ethical issue relating to a current work environment. The paper will have a description of the business situation that presents legal and ethical issue. It will also explain the prior, the current and the future employment experiences. It will analysis the ethical concerns raised by the situation. The paper will explain three areas of law as it applies in the business situation, and finally the paper will explain how to reduce liability exposure and to improve the overall ethic situation.
Description of a business
The Home Depot was a company that was built from scratch in 1978. The two owners and founders are named Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. The Home Depot company agenda was to change …show more content…
Home Depot. The lawyers are Goldstein, Borgen, and Dardarian. They represent a female employee and other applicants for store positions with the Home Depot in the Western Region. This happened in 1996; the US District Court for the Northern District of California put the class- action suit as Butler V. Home Depot Inc., 1996 WL 421436(N.D. Cal. Jan. 25, 1996). The Case Nos. 94-4335SI and 95-2182SI, respectively, pending in U.S. Dist. Ct., N.D. CA) claiming gender discrimination in Home Depot's Western Division (Kenedy, 1997). There was two other gender discrimination lawsuits that were filed against the Home Depot. The two lawsuits were in Louisiana and also in New Jersey. The case in Louisiana was appealed and now the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will intervene, and the case in New Jersey will not be a class action suit, it is only an individual case (Kenedy, …show more content…
The glass ceiling hinders woman from moving up the corporate ladder, due to men having equal credentials and the company picking the man over the woman. A study was done by the US bureau and it stated that woman who work forty-four hours a week will earn eighty- four percent of what men do (Pesta, 2013).
Now we just think that gender discrimination only affects woman but that is not the case, men are affected also. An example is that if a male is working at a makeup counter and he is made to wear a suit, but the woman that works at the same makeup counter is giving special clothes to wear while they are working. We just think of woman all the time when it comes to gender discrimination, but it happens to both men and woman (Pesta, 2013).
When it comes to gender discrimination, it greatly affects all companies. It affects the productivity, because the employees lose motivation and the morale in order to perform the job correctly. The supervisor will miss employee’s promotion because of preconceived notions on their abilities and also their roles (Pesta,
This paper is going to assess a legal or ethical issue relating to a current work environment. The paper will have a description of the business situation that presents legal and ethical issue. It will also explain the prior, the current and the future employment experiences. It will analysis the ethical concerns raised by the situation. The paper will explain three areas of law as it applies in the business situation, and finally the paper will explain how to reduce liability exposure and to improve the overall ethic situation.
Description of a business
The Home Depot was a company that was built from scratch in 1978. The two owners and founders are named Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. The Home Depot company agenda was to change …show more content…
Home Depot. The lawyers are Goldstein, Borgen, and Dardarian. They represent a female employee and other applicants for store positions with the Home Depot in the Western Region. This happened in 1996; the US District Court for the Northern District of California put the class- action suit as Butler V. Home Depot Inc., 1996 WL 421436(N.D. Cal. Jan. 25, 1996). The Case Nos. 94-4335SI and 95-2182SI, respectively, pending in U.S. Dist. Ct., N.D. CA) claiming gender discrimination in Home Depot's Western Division (Kenedy, 1997). There was two other gender discrimination lawsuits that were filed against the Home Depot. The two lawsuits were in Louisiana and also in New Jersey. The case in Louisiana was appealed and now the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will intervene, and the case in New Jersey will not be a class action suit, it is only an individual case (Kenedy, …show more content…
The glass ceiling hinders woman from moving up the corporate ladder, due to men having equal credentials and the company picking the man over the woman. A study was done by the US bureau and it stated that woman who work forty-four hours a week will earn eighty- four percent of what men do (Pesta, 2013).
Now we just think that gender discrimination only affects woman but that is not the case, men are affected also. An example is that if a male is working at a makeup counter and he is made to wear a suit, but the woman that works at the same makeup counter is giving special clothes to wear while they are working. We just think of woman all the time when it comes to gender discrimination, but it happens to both men and woman (Pesta, 2013).
When it comes to gender discrimination, it greatly affects all companies. It affects the productivity, because the employees lose motivation and the morale in order to perform the job correctly. The supervisor will miss employee’s promotion because of preconceived notions on their abilities and also their roles (Pesta,