Appellate Brief Question Presented / Issue Statement Appellant Mary Smith seeks review of the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Anytown, which granted judgment in favor of appellees, the United States Postal Service ( Continue Reading...
Equal opportunity legislation seeks to eliminate the prejudicial hiring practices that were common in the United States prior to this legislation. The initial Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided the foundation for the structure of equal opportunity law Continue Reading...
Labor Relations in Public Sector Collective bargaining in the public sector organizations will be quite different from that of the private sector organizations. The factors that drive the collective bargaining process in the private sector might not Continue Reading...
Jake's actions are in or out of "his scope of employment." According to the LSU Law Center (1993), "An employee's scope of employment is the activities that the employee may properly carry out and that the employer is expected to supervise." In the Continue Reading...
The key issue is what skills are required to do the job and not what skills the individual employees may have. Effort -- is the quantity of physical or mental exertion that is needed to perform the job. If the job requires more effort than the othe Continue Reading...
Human Resources What would you do to ensure that you were well versed in the legal regulation of business and U.S. labor laws? In order for a country to realize its investment potential, a stable macroeconomic environment is essential. To reduce po Continue Reading...
Civil Rights Act of 1964 enforced the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution by ensuring a legislative act that would prevent discrimination and extend equal protection under the law. The bill in its entirety protects all Americans, regardless of r Continue Reading...
FCC & EEO Federal Contract Compliance & EEO Many foreign cultures associate the words United States of America with the vision of freedom and equality. People of many different races, disabilities and creeds have come to the United States s Continue Reading...
Economic Development Agency Economic development constitutes one of the most important aspects and without it life would become unbearable to all individuals living in the society. This process however does not happen in a vacuum and the involvemen Continue Reading...
Positive Discrimination -- Do We Need it? For centuries, the global community has strived to eliminate discrimination against minority groups. For centuries, women had been emotionally and/or physically abused; they were prohibited from voting and w Continue Reading...
Legal Environment of Businesses: Legal Environment of Extermination Business: As a wealthy investor who plans to start a chain of exterminating businesses across the United States, there are several laws and regulations as well as risks that Frank Continue Reading...
The resulting legal ramifications have created an environment of sensitivity to all types of potential discrimination through pre-employment testing procedures. The ADA Act of 2008 became effective on January 1, 2009. A significant change in the wa Continue Reading...
Role of Labor Unions in Industrial Relations In their definition, labor unions have always been known as organizations that have always aimed at getting their members both financial and non-financial benefits. The role of labor unions is however big Continue Reading...
local police agencies at the local, agencies, local, state, and federal level organized to identify principal roles and functions of the police organization in the application of law. Various Types of Police Agencies Various levels and types of po Continue Reading...
The Act is not adaptable, it is not distinct in nature and it is costly to implement (Reynolds, 1995). These factors have allowed the public to disregard the members of the society that were supposed to be protected by the Law. It has been difficult Continue Reading...
Equal Pay Act: Difficult but Essential to Enforce According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2009, women made about 80% of what men of the same race performing the same jobs did. Historical data from the BLS (and this is consistent wit Continue Reading...
Post office would be based on harassment based on gender. I have provided you with definitions of discrimination and harassment. It would be up to you to prove that the harassment is based on gender. For example, are other female mail carriers not g Continue Reading...
Emotional Labor Implications on a Call Centre During the last two decades Contact or call centers have emerged as the answer to cost effectiveness for all sort of businesses that require back end customer services (Boreham et al., 2007). These call Continue Reading...
Preventing Workplace Discrimination The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990 and since then has been the main instrument to make employment opportunities available to as many people as possible, even if it meant that the employer Continue Reading...
Vicarious Liability Vicarious (Employer) Liability The several different lawsuits that Cartman's employer Authorit-I is facing as a result of his actions, though some of these have more merit and pose greater risks than others. According to the pri Continue Reading...
Discrimination against the elderly, against pregnant women, against women with children, against people of color are all prohibited under the law. The EEOC or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created to administer Title VII of the Civil R Continue Reading...
Petty v. Metropolitan Gov't of Nashville & Davidson County Metropolitan Police Officer Brian Petty served in the army reserves. While deployed in Kuwait he was honorably discharged after brewing homemade wine although it was noted on his dischar Continue Reading...
Employee Privacy Avoid liability invasion privacy Essay Question: List discuss ways employers avoid liability invasion privacy. Essay 350 words length APA format. There -text citation essay. List and discuss different ways employers can avoid liabi Continue Reading...
Immigration in France A greater percentage of the 3 million Muslims who live in France are of North West Africa origin. Such statistics is owed to the events of the First World War that saw soldiers from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia sent to fight al Continue Reading...
Ngos & Human Rights in Africa Non-governmental organizations have had an unprecedented effect on international human rights in the African system. NGOs have been recognized for their forward thinking ability in improving international human righ Continue Reading...
Unintended Limitations on Ada Protections ADA Protections The American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) was designed to prevent discrimination in terms of employment (Title I), telecommunications (Title IV), and public services (Title II), trans Continue Reading...
ethical issues for business organizations in the twenty-first century. The forces of globalization have increased the degree to which diverse groups in society have grown dependent on one another. Hence, their expectations influence the freedoms and Continue Reading...
The result is an increasing gap between the richest and poorest teams that would reinforce disparities around and earning power, concentrating productivity into monopolistic dominant teams with a concommitant reduction of competition in play and con Continue Reading...
American Meat Packing Corp., 362F.3d 418 (7th Cir. 2004). On November 15, 2001, 350 workers at the American Meat Packing Corporation (AMPC) showed up for work and were told they had been terminated. Because they were not notified 60 days prior to te Continue Reading...
If a 68-year-old employee receives an above average review on her work performance and doesn't receive a raise, and then finds that an employee who is 32 years of age receives an adequate performance review and gets a raise and a promotion the older Continue Reading...
2009, p.90). The composition of the immigrant population could also affect receptivity. For example, length of U.S. residence and cultural and linguistic fluency can make immigrant workers more acceptable, and thus result in higher wages. "In the s Continue Reading...
However, the dual relationship may still violate the purpose and policy of the NASW Code of Ethics as pertains to dual relationships, if only because it may be unrealistic to restrict the definition of exploitation so literally. Dual Relationship E Continue Reading...
One of the problems with discrimination laws is that they the law does not have the power to completely cure social problems. For example, affirmative action was a necessary part of the effort towards equality because many employers were simply unw Continue Reading...
Affirmative action simply paints a broader picture of the person being considered and helps overcome implicit selection bias or favoritism for groups that are more 'like us.' Although we might like to think so, in the words of President Clinton: "Th Continue Reading...
The author states that the laws of citizenship have also shown an even greater amount of discrimination. The article goes on to describe the various laws as they relate to birthright and citizenship. The important point is made that most people rec Continue Reading...
Age and Age Discrimination on an Organization We hear so much about race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination on the job. And this is with good reason. America, unfortunately, has a long and torrid history of racial and gender discriminati Continue Reading...
Furthermore these employers normally operate in third-world countries, where the cheapest possible labor is available as a result of the high demand for employment. These employers normally thrive in the import/export industry, where very high profi Continue Reading...
1930's, Germany was plagued by unemployment and stagnant growth despite efforts by the administration to alleviate the country's economic difficulties. The economic liberalization of the banking system was one of few cautionary steps taken by admini Continue Reading...
Professional Issues in Nursing Things that surprised me The chapter on collective bargaining has some surprising aspects with respect to nursing. Collective bargaining has a number of difficulties while being implemented at nursing profession. Nurs Continue Reading...
In limited situations, an employee might attempt to obtain injunctive relief but it would be available only where the employer has somehow already prohibited the employee from otherwise working. Money damages would be available for both sides of th Continue Reading...
