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must receive equal pay. During World War 1 and 2 the War Labor Board ruled that women working jobs usually performed by men must be paid equally to what men were paid. Both wars ended before the rule could be strictly enforced. The National Recovery Act of 1935 required women in the federal workforce to receive 25% less pay than their male counterparts. In 1944, Rep. Winifred Stanley proposed the first bill that would amend the National Labor Relations Act and put an end gender wage…

The Effect of Happiness in the Workplace on Outside Structures The subject of human happiness is complex and applicable to many different situations and social structures. It is a widely practiced idea that people generally want to be happy and the means to achieving that happiness can be sought out in a variety of ways. For some, great lengths will be reached to be truly happy in all aspects of an individual’s life, both personal and professional. People may seek happiness through relationships…

Introduction: Emotions at work have attracted a fair amount of attention from scientist and practitioners over the past decades. One of the topics is emotional labour which was introduced by Hochschild (1983). The concept of emotional labour has many aspects to it such as surface acting, deep acting, intensity of emotional display, the duration of emotional display, range of emotional display, automatic emotion regulation and many more. Their effects on an employee’s work satisfaction, their…

I believe that the wages set by a firm are very crucial to a company’s well-being. If workers are not being treated fairly financially then they are not likely to do an efficient job in the work place. It creates a bad environment for both worker and customers. Eventually that will lead to a decrease in profit for the firm because the customers are not happy with the services provided, but the workers have no real incentive to give their best work because they aren’t being taken care of…

In his piece on poor support, David Ellwood argues that clashes/tensions between American values yield three helping conundrums. We want to know, which of these conundrums is most salient today and how might policymakers work to reduce the inherent value tensions? Ellwood mentions three helping conundrums. The first one is the Security-Work Conundrum. He argues that welfare can increase the security of the poor and can also reduce their motivation and likelihood to work. On the other hand, if…

Geoffrey Stillwell Professor Liibs ENGL 1113 Section 336 11 September 2017 Summary Rough Draft Rex Huppke explains in his article “In the Minimum Wage Debate, Both Sides Make Valid Points” that the issue on raising the minimum wage is not as simple as it seems. The nation is divided between raising the minimum wage or not, and at the beginning Huppke was all in favor of it. That was, however, until he did more research on the topic. There are some cons to raising the minimum wage that could…

article, it was displayed that there are four major factors that are causing a decline in the Trust Fund, and if these are adjusted may assist the younger generations in order to receive Social Security as well. The four factors were listed as: Falling Labor Force Participation Rate, Rise is Disability Rate, Long Life Rates, and finally Lower Interest Rates (Chuck Saletta, 2014). These four factors are also within politics discussion and debates, and still have yet to be resolved, however I…

The proposal to raise the minimum wage has caused controversy within many states across the country. Politicians, business personnel and economists have evaluated the circumstances and consequences of raising the minimum wage. Supporters believe raising the minimum wage will have lasting benefits, while opponents argue further economic and social complications could arise. Even though both sides of the argument can be justified, it appears an increase in the minimum wage will do more harm than…

Show a child love & care, child labor is just not fair. Forms of child labor such as child slavery has existed throughout the American and human history, although child labor reached a new extreme during the Industrial Revolution. Children were being over worked, working dangerous long hours in poor factory conditions making very little money to support their families. Children were treated as slaves because they were very useful when it came to being laborers. Their little bodies allowed them…

We were tasked with reading four different articles about workforce diversity. The focus of each of these articles was the role that women play in creating diversity in the workforce. The first article “How to Get More Women into the Workforce” started off by stating that the baby boomer generation is nearing retirement age. Once consequence of this is that the number of job openings will reach record highs. Currently, the workforce participation rate is 62%, which is the lowest it’s been since…