Employment law

Law is defined as a rule or system of rules recognized by a community, county, or countries as regulating the actions of people subjected to the law and enforced by the imposition of penalties or incentives. Law is broad and law is applicable in many areas. Labor law mediates the relationship between workers, employers, trade unions and the government which concerns the employee’s right at work, through the contract for work. Every country in the world, in some ways, possesses labor law and the…

place in an environment such as an office, store, school, factory or anywhere people are employed and/or conduct business, in order for it to be considered workplace harassment. The most frequent type of harassment is sexual harassment. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proclaimed any offensive behavior against someone is subject to federal punishment. It also stated that harassment applies to religion, gender, race, age, and handicap. Workplace harassment of a sexual nature…

properly researching the laws, XYZ opens themselves up to possible litigations from their employees due to breaches of statute. XYZ must first begin their zero drug or alcohol policy by implementing a drug and alcohol test for all of their employees. As stated above this will cover four areas of testing as to cover all their bases. Preferential job applicants only must be screened in order to not waste resources or money on applicants not being considered for employment. Secondly a…

The National Labor Relations Act is also known as the Wagner Act. In 1933, Senator Robert F. Wagner submitted a bill before Congress that would prohibit unfair labor practices by employers. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed this bill into law on July 5, 1935. It guaranteed the right of employees to organize, form unions, and bargain collectively with their employers. It also assured that workers would have a choice on whether to belong to a union or not. It promoted collective bargaining…

Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) by Chui and Tran, 26 percent of immigrants between 25- 44 years of age reported that a lack of Canadian work experience was a fundamental problem in seeking employment in the first two years after their arrival. Twenty-one percent identified the non-recognition of their foreign employment experience or credentials as the most serious problem they encountered (Chui & Tran, 2003, p.10). This is important to discuss, because it highlights a key issue; it is not that…

to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating,…

ROLE OF STANDARD WAGE POLICY IN AUSTRALIA IN FORMING EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE Australian employment structure maybe is one of the best in the world because it is support by adequate wages standard as a national economic backbone. OECD (2012) reported that Fair Work (FW) Act 2009 was able to guarantee wage and employment and this lead to a sharp increase in the employment rates in Australia. Australian standard wages policy supports their employment structure, but it needs further evaluation and…

(http://humanresources.about.com/od/dictionarya/g/at_wll.htm.). In today's society, the majority of employees have a good understanding of "Employment at Will" doctrine. "Having a stable workforce made up of highly intelligent knowledge workers is critical for providing outstanding customer service" (Brown & Stewart 252). Employees must understand and acknowledge their employment is not guaranteed by an employer. However, employees have legal rights that protect them within the workforce. As…

this legislation, the main employment laws that the business need to consider are that; every applicant the business employs- they must make sure that they are safe on the premises and are able to use the machinery provided with limited chances of injury. This factor can impact the businesses and the activities they run- as in the case of injury they will have to remove the injury causing specimen, if it was due to the machinery but if the company is at fault they can have law suits put against…

According to this week’s text, a union is merely an organization that represents an employee’s interest on issue to management on things such as wages, work hours and employment conditions (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2012, p. 504). In doing some brief research in regards to police unions, which are several pros as well as several cons as it relates to the union. On the pro side, it brings all participants together into a family like atmosphere, they can lobby for better wages and equipment…