International labour standards

Visualize waking up every morning at four o’clock. Now visualize not going to school, but going collect small molluscs in the mangrove swamps on an island in El Salvador. Visualize bringing a dozen cigars and four pills to keep from falling asleep. Visualize working fourteen hours a week in the mud, have cuts, and scrapes all over your body. Visualize returning home covered in bug bites and only earning $1.40, the majority your paycheck being spent on pills and cigars. As unrealistic as this…

anticipated to denote an older person’s capacity to be “physically active or to participate in the labour force, but to participate in society according to his or her needs, desires and capabilities” (Clarke and Warren, 2007, p. 477). Walker (2006) as citied in Clarke and Warren (2007, p. 466) has criticised the notion of ‘active ageing’ as narrowly focusing on older people’s involvement in the labour market; it was further noted that for effective ‘active ageing’ to take place a life-course…

The purpose of this report is to give an overview of what the Human Resource (HR) department does for Pratt and Whitney (PW). The Human Resource department is in charge of all hiring at PW. HR department is involved in recruitment, career and development, and also diversity, inclusion, and ethics. The HR department plays an important role at PW which is to hire the brightest talent to the company. The Human Resource Talent Center controls the external hiring process. The Talent Center has a…

Fair and Equal Pay, Not So Fair and Equal Labor Unions seem like a decaying memory; over the past few years, numbers of membership of unions have dropped to a low 11.1 percent in 2015, while membership in 1983 was at 20.1%. (“Union Members Summary”) The drop-in numbers seem to be related to economic issues like the recession in December of 2007(“By comparison”). Or could it be that workers are sick of equal pay for all employees? People that belong to unions, seem tired of going to work, doing…

work quicker. This breakthrough allowed business proprietors to lessen the amount of people engaged in their industry, and turn to unskilled labor workers who could be paid less. The ideology behind the Industrial Revolution was to improve living standards and boost the economy from the mass production of the new industries. Far from this ideology, because wage labor was on a rise it lead to human exploitation. Forced labor on children, horrid labor conditions, and long hours of labor had to be…

Author: Virginie Cabral Topic: New immigrants’ integration to improve productivity. My position: I strongly believe that companies can help enhance the productivity of new immigrants if they provide cultural awareness and sensitivity training to help create a culture of tolerance and acceptance of differences. Position I will present: New immigrants need to integrate into the American population to take advantage of the American work culture which leads in labor productivity internationally.…

Managing Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: Qualification Appropriate Work for Syrian Refugees in Australia Aims The purpose of this proposed project is to explore ways to integrate Syrian refugees into the Australian workplace and find them qualification appropriate jobs. Our long-term aim is to have refugees able to utilise job agencies and independently find appropriate work based on their qualifications, as well as establish a more cost-effective and generalised intervention for all…

played a key role in the replacing of the Liberal party with Labour it could be said that structure worked more as a catalyst while agency played a direct part in the replacement of the Liberal party; it could be argued “structure and agency [cannot] be divorced” (McHugh, 2001, p.6). While values giving way to class and an electorate tripling in size does create some convincing arguments that structure is the best explanation for Labour replacing the Liberal party as the main opposition to the…

In society there are two different contracts that people live with. The first being a contract with an employer. These contracts limit a person from doing certain things within a company. If they violate something on that contract, they will suffer the consequences by getting fired or getting suspended without pay. The other is an invisible contract with God that put our actions in our own hands. If our actions get carried away, we will pay for it in the afterlife. These two contracts are…

Both Odysseus and Telemachus play extremely pivotal and important roles in Homer’s The Odyssey. The phrase “like father like son” can easily describe the similarities between Odysseus and Telemachus’s characters. However, no human beings are exactly alike as both characters also share a great number of differences. So although Odysseus and Telemachus are both similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, they differ in craftiness and arrogance which reflect Ancient Greek values.…