Workers' compensation

The gender wage gap in California has been know about for many years, but no one is willing to step up and say something about it for fear of retaliation by employers. People have tried to put changes in place in the past, but they all failed when tried to get passed. Finally on Tuesday, California’s first wage equality measure was passed and signed into law. The act says that women in the state have to be paid the same as their male counterparts. In the past, women were paid as little as 84…

workplace is operated so that families can have more ways to work around other areas of their lives. When people have more time and flexibility to do there work, they are prone to have better productivity. Making the workplace a better place while, workers feel more confident about how other aspects of their lives are…

Since the 1960s, women’s rights have been one of the major focuses in our social and political world. According to research studies, a woman’s wage is only 79 percent of man’s wage; meaning, a woman makes $4 for every $5 that a man makes (“Gender Pay Inequality…”, 2016). On June 10, 1963, the Equal Pay Act was signed by John F. Kennedy (“Gender Pay Inequality…”, 2016). The purpose of this law was to establish equality between men and women in the workforce. Both men and women should receive…

The changes in the types of benefits provided by employers over the past decade have been excessive. Benefits have always been used as a non-wage bargaining tool when recruiting workers for the company. They types of perks offered can make or break the company when competing for the workforce. From how benefits started out, to what they are now, and how they are improving the improvement can be see and help employees recognize if they are being appreciated. The use of employee benefits was…

These men believe in the thought process proven in Lester Thurow’s article, “Why are Women Paid Less Than Men” when he states women “are less reliable workers who are more apt to leave the labor force”. Those beliefs, however, end up causing a backlash. Allowing women to have a lower income causes a loss of potential money for their families. Lester Thurow concludes “When men discriminate against women…

at their place of employment many employees believe that money grows on trees, which sounds really great. These theories come across the American workers, because of the great benefits that the employer may provide. Yes, the United States work field offers a lot more than some of the international areas and which they have a much better…

a $15 an hour minimum wage. Over 3 million US workers make minimum-wage. The state of Texas over 5.7% of people…

Hiring federal minimum wage is a very controversial debate among society, this topic has many pros and cons. Minimum wage is the base pay, meaning no employer should pay their employees less, however having a low minimum wage allows motivation for employees to strive for the hourly rate raise. I am against hiring minimum wage because while it can increase the income for household it requires employers to divide their pay evenly among their employees; this may cost the jobs of several of the…

parameters like quality of service, overtime work or to all general workers. Most employers provide fringe benefits to their employees and help to build a better understanding and boost the relationship between the employer and employee. Life insurance offers, retirement plans, child care, leaves offers and leaves pay, and discounts are some of the benefits offered. These benefits may help an organization offering them to attract talented workers and get the best out of them and somehow help in…

Intro In Australia, gender inequality still exists despite dramatic changes in the labour market in the last 40 years with the amount of women in the labour force almost doubling. In this essay we will be discussing gender equality in terms of income, superannuation and the domestic division of the labour market. This essay will be broken into three sections. Part one will discuss the inequalities in income and superannuation between men and women and why it may be so. Part two will discuss…