Equal Opportunity Employment

relationship is. This is the link between employers and their employees (International Labour Organization, 2017). The International Labour Organization (2017) also explains that with this employment relationship, that special rights and obligations are created between the employee and the employer. The reality of this employment relationship is the condition that decides how labor law requirements will be addressed to employees (International Labour Organization, 2017). Now, knowing this, we…

Garcia v. City of Antonio The issue on whether compensation and overtime pay is applicable to excluded and non-excluded security personnel is a major issue across various states. Even though the Fair Labor Standards Act provides direction regarding this issue, it remains to be a major concern that has attracted huge attention throughout various states. The U.S. Supreme Court and Congress have been forced to make several landmark decisions regarding whether compensation and overtime pay is…

accepted for the position? Background checks are a common practice employers take to ensure they are hiring the right candidate. Background checks include credit history, criminal history, driving records, academic history verification, and past employment checks. However, background checks are regulated and covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970. What is the Fair Credit Reporting Act? The Fair Credit Report Act (FCRA) was passed in 1970 and is enforced by the Federal Trade…

Regardless of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which ensures ladies the privilege to level with pay, unequal treatment was as yet regular in a bad position bubbled over in Willmar. As indicated by the star union Workday Minnesota daily paper, the eight ladies—Doris Boshart, Sylvia Erickson Koll, Jane Harguth Groothuis, Teren Novotny, Shirley Solyntjes, Glennis Ter Wisscha, Sandi Treml, and Irene Wallin—became burnt out on making almost 300 dollars for each week not as much as their male partners. They…

In today’s society, it is hard to believe that we are still having problems with equality, especially with wages between men and women. Women have been fighting, since the 1920s, to be considered equal to men, yet they are still not being paid the same amount as them. “U.S. Census data from 2015 shows a dramatic wage gap between men and women in median annual pay: American women earn, on average, only 79 cents for every dollar that men make” ("Every Office Needs a 79 Percent Clock") For women…

discrimination. The act's key concept was “to include employer decisions about base pay or wages, job classifications, career ladder or other noncompetitive promotion denials, tenure denials, and failure to respond to requests for raises” (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2016, para. 4 ). Also the law indicate that…

searching experience to be frustrating while others find it interesting. This depends on avenues that people use. It is easier for people to get employment in organizations where they have favorable contacts with current employees. From the case studies, it is evident that nepotism makes it easier for some people to attain employment. Mark attained employment due to the influence that his father had in the organization. A close look at his qualifications shows that he was not necessarily…

In the article “Standing Up for the Rights of New Fathers,” author Tara Siegel Bernard is writing about the controversial discussion of equal rights between genders, especially about paid paternity leave. Bernard is a personal finance reporter for The New York Times and has worked as a news editor for Consumer News and Business Channel (211). The author begins the article by introducing a father that is concerned about the amount of paternity leave that is available to him from his employer.…

employers and employees to make reasonable accommodations and adjustments to the needs of disabled people to help them to overcome barriers that they may face in gaining and remaining in employment and in accessing and using goods and services. This act helps protect those with disabilities and provides them with fair employment…

(Aluwi & Saihani, 2013). Christie’s news report states that Coles made its values regarding recruitment known to the subcontractor, but the subcontractor went ahead and infringed those values. This damages our reputation because we might be known to be equal-employers on paper, but not implementers of the same. As a result, Coles risks being a liability because the ad contravenes the Tasmania Anti-Discriminatory Act 1998, which states that entities should not publish or cause to display any…