Labour law

HR professionals and their customers were struggling to explain the “so what” of the HR scorecards and training programs. With the rise of predictive analytics of Amazon, Netflix, and Google, CEOs are asking all functional departments to deliver better business outcomes (Roberts, 2015). HR is no exception. Strategic analytics in HR falls under many different names: Human Capital Management, Human Capital Analytics, Workforce Analytics, Talent Management, People Management, Talent Supply…

Union jobs were once the backbone of our workforce. Many different trades offered employees the opportunity to join unions, ensuring that these employees received the highest wages, the best benefits and safe working conditions. With more and more jobs being outsources overseas and the Baby Boomer generation retiring, the amount of people joining the unions has decreased. In order for unions to survive, they are going to have to change the way today’s generation sees them, to bring new life back…

The Importance of Organizing in Health Care Management A number of major principles exist to support the framework for the formal organization theory, one being authority as an essential principle (Dunn, 2010). Authority can be described as a way of getting the job done by having the right to direct others and give orders (Dunn, 2010). Another primary principle is the span of management also known as the span of control (Dunn, 2010). This principle is defined as boundaries set on the number…

Much of the early history of the Virginia colonial experiment is the history of a charnel house as disease, Indians, and overwork conspired to kill colonists in appalling numbers. This shocking death-rate conspired to ensure that the lands and opportunities remained open through the first fifty years of the colony 's life. By the latter part of the 17th century change came to Virginia and the opportunities once so plentiful began to disappear, the population, increasing, began to divide the…

All companies large or small must follow a set of regulations when it comes to hiring new employees or maintaining current employees. There are several different regulations that are required by state and each state has their specific regulations. Along with state regulations employers must follow federal regulations which are the same for every company. One of the most important federal regulations is for wages and salary. These are the regulations that decide what the minimum wage is and…

Advancement in Technology in the Work Forces With technology evolving everyday, many things in our future might change, including jobs. Some jobs could be taken away by technology like computers or robots. Americans will have some mixed feelings about the job situation coming up in the future. It could be a good thought or a bad thought, but it will most likely be a bad thought. Jobs in the future could be done by computers or robots if it’s not a physical job, meaning that a person has to be…

was still short, Tony Blair proposed top up fees. Top up fees meant different universities could charge top up tuition fees in accordance to the level of funding needed for different courses. This proposal caused uproar and even protests and lead to Labour party making a new manifesto in 2001 going against the idea. Despite this many big changes were made to higher education in 2004. The Higher Education Act meant that tuition fees were to be replaced by loans paid back on an income based term.…

1. The Labors of Heracles that can be seen as ‘conquests of death’ are: First would be the Labor of the Cattle of Geryon. In this quest Heracles had to face terribly awful odds in order to complete the task. He had to go to the western edge of the earth and even required the aid of Helius’ golden cup to sail the waters in and had to face the Geryon, his herdsman and Orthus. It was unlikely, or even impossible that he completed the quest and the fact that he did makes it a conquest of death.…

locked the doors in an attempt to keep workers from leaving. This was known as the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. (ushistory.org/us/37asp) After the disastrous 1911 Triangle shirtwaist company fire things began to change in the work place labor laws were passed. In 1936 a young girl who tried to hand President D. Roosevelt an envelope was rebuffed by the police. President Roosevelt insisted to an aide that he get the note. The note described working conditions in a local sewing factory,…

I am conducting and interview with Brit Minor from Gregg County Human Resources department. I am conducting my interview inside a room that is used to interview job candidates at Gregg County Court house in Longview Texas. The date is November 14, 2016. Ms. Minor is an administrative assistant. Because Gregg county has a smaller Human Resources department she handles new hire orientation, open job placement, and job descriptions. She also handles level one conflicts that come into the Gregg…