Legislation

features of current employment legislation There are a number of features of current employment legislation. From the main features are employment rights, equality and discrimination and health and safety. Employment contracts, minimum wage, health and safety, anti-discrimination rules, equal rights or pay, dismissal and redundancy, unfair working conditions, sick pay, holiday entitlements, training, disciplinary procedures, union rights. 1.3Outline why legislation relating to employment…

today, Seattle is a city often discussed in terms of the unemployment rate. Seattle enacted a fifteen-dollar minimum wage legislation in April 2015. Analysts have been trying to collect evidence since to determine the early effects the fifteen-dollar minimum wage legislation has on the economy in Seattle. There has been some debate about the fifteen-dollar minimum wage legislation directly affecting the unemployment rate in Seattle early on. As some analysts believe the initial minimum wage…

Main Question Post: Discussion 7 The HITECH Legislation The HITECH Act of 2009 objectives is to “improve the delivery of healthcare quality … coordination of services between and among … various healthcare providers” with health information technology (HIT) (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015, p. 149). The HITECH legislation will bequeath inducements to health care organizations that demonstrate significant usage of health information technology (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). Health care organization…

Educational salary equity has come a long way since the 1970s. When the Equal Pay legislation was passed, the main concern was the pay gap between female and male faculty. Now the question of equal compensation is between private and public. In this article, Rippner and Toutkoushian sought to answer two question: What is the pay gap between public and private-not-for-profit institutions that offer bachelor’s degrees? and How has pay in both private-not-for-profit and public institutions kept up…

staff, contractors and panel members toured the province in what was described as the largest public consultation exercise to date on child welfare issues, and comprehensive new child welfare legislation was introduced in the Legislature in 1994, and came into force in 1996” (p. 8). The child welfare legislation which came into effect is the Child, Family and Community Service Act (CFCSA). Policy and Ideology In order to understand policy, it is helpful to be aware of the political…

an Australian workplace. As bullying has become increasingly common throughout many organisations, the negative impacts on an individual and workplace environment are conveyed. The Occupation Health and Safety (OHS) is also examined, which is a legislation recognised for the psychological hazards including bullying in a workplace, violence, aggression and other anti-social behaviours. The discussion then focuses on the authors argument while anti-bullying laws are imposed workplace bullying…

FGM - Legislation in the UK Since 1985, in the UK, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been a criminal offence under the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985. Yes, FGM has been a criminal offence in England and Wales for nearly thirty years! However, under this legislation in 1985, taking girls who were settled in the UK abroad to undergo FGM was not considered a criminal offence. Therefore, the law was further revised in 2003, introduced to replace the one made in 19855 and close this…

The United Nations has been the birthplace of the principle and the main forum for its development and implementation. Permanent sovereignty over natural resources is a firmly established standard of international law that authorizes states to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over natural resources and all components of the natural environment within their national boundaries. Ever since its introduction into international law in the late 1950s, this standard has been widely accepted by states…

Homosexual marriage legislation has been a controversial topic. Recently, the U.S. has legalized same-sex marriage nationwide and this has arouse public’s attention on the development in Hong Kong. The legalization of homosexual marriage can lead to civic transformation in the society with more diversified social groups and more life choices provided to the citizens (Halle, 2001). This essay argues that the legalization of homosexual marriage do more good than harm in terms of individual’s…

Being able to successfully pass legislation to increase the minimum wage is difficult because of opposer's claiming that Increasing the minimum wage will result in less jobs and less hours available to other workers. They also claim that with the sudden increase of the minimum wage will create profit loss on some companies. Opposers of this issue are mainly businessmen, which Mitchell Englander a businessman stated by saying “I know firsthand about the struggles that business owners and their…