Wage slavery

Answer to Question No. 1 (a) Fringe benefit refers to the benefit that is provided toan employee or an associate of the employee by the employer or associate of an employer in any given year in respect of the employment of the employee. It refers to any benefit that is provided over and above the salary of an employee. Benefit refers to anything that is provided to the employee by the employer which he would actually have to incur himself if the benefit was not provided by the employer. It aims…

a major factor of the pay gap is gender discrimination against women. Men have been earning higher salaries than women, with the same education, in the same position, and the same job responsibilities. Women 's choices are not the only cause of the wage gap; gender discrimination is a key factor. In the past, women have been known to take care of the household as a stay at…

1) The company I chose to profile is Bayer. Bayer is a global enterprise with companies in almost every country. The profile I have highlighted is the Canadian sector. This company provides multiple employee benefits; even including considering opening a new location for employees that move to a city where no current office is open. The extensive list of employee perks begins here: Medical benefits- As part of the health plan, the employer pays up to 95% of the premiums, the plans are…

of reaching agreements to regulate working conditions. The employee’s interest is represented at a trade union where the employee belongs by representatives. These negotiations usually amount to collective agreements such as working hours, set out wage scales, health, training and safety. Negotiation occurs between the union and a single employer or a group of businesses depending on the country to reach an industry wide agreement. This agreement functions like a labor contract between…

home, raise the family, and maintain the household (Brewer). The workplace is one area where there is still a lack of equality and treatment. One area where this mistreatment is most obvious is the gender wage gap. In a publication by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the gender wage gap currently is a woman will make 80 cents to every dollar a man makes. The Institute also claims that if the rate of pay increases the way it has since 1960 it will take until 2059 for men and women…

amount of income inequality in society will be reduced. This is due to the fact that as more money is being taxed on the rich, the government will have more money to use to run programs that help the middle class. An example of this would be minimum wage legislation initiative, which will raise the income of the poorest workers. Shifting the economic supply and demand curve to the right leading to long run economic…

Young, Atlanta mayor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to asses working conditions in subcontractors’ plants around the world. The intent of this strategy was regain credibility against the article published by Baskin (bad working condition, wage below the minimum salary, overwork) through an external advisor, a well-known person, mayor and member of the United Nations (upholder and promoter of human rights), and to show, disclosure the “real condition” of the workers from another…

job are different everywhere and Nike is operating in foreign countries because it wants lower labor standards such as lower wage, more working hours and other conditions etc., so that it can grow and make more profit. So I think it should use conditions from the local country but if the conditions are too low Nike should improve on them such as giving higher minimum wage, better working environment and safety etc and conditions that are more accepted by the public, which will improve its image…

Job satisfaction topic has been researched by many researchers previously. According to Stephen P. Robbins (2005) Job satisfaction is attitude of an employee towards work according to the rewards they receive from work and rewards they believe they should get from the work. Positive attitude towards work shows job satisfaction and negative attitude towards work shows job dissatisfaction (Armstrong,2006). Aziri B (2011) states that efficiency and effectiveness of an employee depends on job…

There is a lady named Kerrie who did not sleep very well because she is faced with a quarterly financial review and planning session with the Chief Executive Officer and the other general managers at her job called Access. Kerrie and the other managers want to meet the 15 % reduction of the budget and she strongly feels like reaching the goal can be achieved. Kerrie was presented with her results of her strengths and weaknesses report and she found out that she is lacking in the leadership area…