Workers' compensation

QUESTION PRESENTED Under the California workers’ compensation statute, is an off-duty recreational activity, that happened off site, a “reasonable expectation” of employment when an employee is not subjected to physical fitness tests, there is a reminder by management to stay in good physical shape, and the employee believes that doing that activity is needed to fulfill his job duties? SHORT ANSWER Most likely no. Participation in an off-duty recreational activity is a reasonable expectation…

external labor market orientation. Furthermore, Wiggleman’s dependence on buying talent is evident in their hiring practices. They employ many temporary workers, many of whom are “students currently in school or seeking to return to school.” In this company, workers have a transactional relationship with management and the existing compensation system along with its emphasis on “fair” pay at a minimum level is consistent with the measures outlined in the “Bargain Laborers” strategy. Furthermore,…

The article I read is called How Much Compensation Can CEO’s Permissibly Accept? By Jeffrey Moriarty and it talked about how many individuals view the ethics of executive compensation. Some think that the amount that the CEO's are getting paid is too big in regards to their performance compared to what CEO's get paid overseas and to what their workers get paid. The boards of directors could be at blame for the most part because they can be considered fragile and or having concern for themselves…

the business circulating healthily. The main way to do that is to adamantly supply and cover the workers of the business, because they are truly the backbone of the entire operation. The role that compensation plays is essential in workplace because how workers are paid reflects their level of excellence on the job, and the future of the brand itself, which is in the hands of the employees. Compensation is the output…

There are two main approaches of justifying CEO compensations. The first would be to justify high CEO compensations from a business or a managerial perspective. In other words, we would need to justify the pay-gap between chief executives and ordinary workers. The second would be to justify high CEO compensations from an economic perspective. An economic lens takes into account the rising economic inequalities, which is largely assumed to be non-existent or insubstantial in the first method, as…

Compensation Management After the candidate is selected they should be managed properly and motivated by providing best wages and compensation as per the industry standards. Compensation is the remuneration received by an employee in return for his involvement to the organization. It is a organized workout that contains balancing the work employee relation by providing monetary and non-monitory benefit to employees. Compensation means to all forms of pay received by employees. Benefit means…

workplaces would be safe. Perkins created the Bureau of Labor Standards in 1934 primarily to promote safety and health for the entire work force. She outlined a set of policies priorities; a 40-hour work week; a minimum wage; unemployment compensation; worker’s compensation; abolition of child labor; direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief; Social Security; a revitalized federal employment service; and universal health insurance. She made it clear to Roosevelt that his agreement…

Ethically managing compensation definition. Bloom (2004) stresses “Compensation systems can be both powerful determinants and important reflections of organizational values and ethics” (p. 151). According to Bloom (2004), "Compensation systems are almost always set and administered by the most powerful members of an organization . . . and imposed upon the least powerful which . . . an organization relies on for its survival and success (p. 151). Judging the ethics of compensation practices…

The SEC rule means rank-and-file workers will be able to see how they stack up against the median employee at their firm and at other firms. This may raise all sorts of questions as to whether a person believes they’re paid fairly both internally…and [compared] to competitors the boss and…

be one of the policies the organization can adopt to increase their workers performance thereby enhancing the organization productivity. However, in today’s business environment of low wage and salary increase, pay has become an increasingly significant consideration for employee as they strive to maintain their standard of living Snell and Bohlander (2010). It therefore becomes imperative for organization to adopt compensation policy that employees will perceive as being fair and commensurate…