International Labour Organization

Theory in Action: How Adam Smith and Marx & Engels understand UberX business model Uber, a smartphone application connecting Uber drivers and customers directly, enables customers to request an Uber cab to pick them up on site by simply tapping on their screen. Recently, Uber Company is undergoing waves of protests from drivers of UberX, a subdivision service of Uber in which drivers use their own vehicles. Drivers contend that they are earning much less than the company claims. This paper will…

A couple of years ago, I moved to the Chesapeake in hopes of finding a new life. A new life that would give me wealth and move me from the poor conditions like no employment, starvation, disease, and homelessness that is in England. In the Chesapeake, most of the people who came from England are mostly single men with no family at all, young people that their age ranges from 15 to 24 years old, the poor and criminals of England, and almost no wealthy people in the colony. Those people who…

hypothesizes the the true minimum wage should be enough to ensure subsistence. Subsistence is defined as the minimal amount of necessities, such as food and shelter, for laborers to maintain their health in order to return to work the following day (Marx, “Labour-Power and Capital,” p.50). I propose to test this hypothesis by looking at the United States’s (U.S.) minimum wage and whether it’s enough for low-wage workers to get by with. The method used to evaluate this hypothesis will be…

impels over 180 federal guidelines. These guide-lines and the procedures that enforce them encompass many office activities for around 10 mil-lion organizations and over 100 million employees. The great thing about labor laws is that it embraces all aspects of the legal rapport amongst organizations, workers, and worker labor un-ions. Organizations resistance to identifying workers privilege to systematize and bargain collec-tively with powers that be has emerged in a process of mainly…

Loving What You Do Many people are aspired to go out and do what they love, but have any of these people realized the consequence of doing so? In the article “In the Name of Love” Miya Tokumitsu protests against the do what you love (DWYL) concept along with the well-known speech given by Steve Jobs. Tokumitsu, who has a doctorate in Art History, disagrees with Jobs and goes on to say “The problem is it (DWYL) leads not to salvation but to the devaluation of actual work, including the very…

During colonial America, lying on the eastern side of the continent were the New England colonies in the north and the Chesapeake colonies in the south. New England colonies composed states such as MA, RI, and CT while Chesapeake colonies contain states like MD, VA and the Carolinas. With these two colonies separated, they share similarities as well as differences. Slavery, politics and religion are the most important key facts that have a common aspect among New England and Chesapeake colonies.…

For this task I’ll be explaining the internal and external planning factors to consider for when planning the human resource requirements for business A There are many different factors within internal planning such as, demand for existing products and services and new products and new services, new markets, technological change, location of production, skills requirements. The first factor Tesco will consider are internal factors. By internal factors we mean the following: Demand for…

decision making body like the Labour Court to hear personal complaints and dispute between employee, unions and employer in 1987 to 1991. The Industrial Relation Act was replaced with voluntary arbitration means that unions and employers able to settle issues with minimum involvement of the court or third parties (Deeks, 1990). The new act required “registered unions have a minimum of 1000 members to process arbitrary award system”. Overall the new ideology and labour law is being led by Prime…

1. The job I have selected is JOB 1, the internship (sales assistant). The requirements are as follows: a minimum qualification of a matric certificate, in terms of personality the candidate must be ambitious, self-motivated, have a positive attitude and good communication skills. I believe I am qualified for this job because I poses a matric certificate and further more have distinctions in business studies ( which can be helpful in this field). I was a part of the public speaking team for 2…

Measure When an employer is looking for the right person but doesn’t know if that person is great to work with, then it can be hard. Many businesses give equal opportunities to candidates to try for the positions that are required for the job. They measure skills which looks at the way they communicate effectively and what is their coordination skills like, known as technical skills. Softer skills look at the candidates’ personality traits such as impersonal skills and relationship techniques on…