...Case: Acme Manufacturing Company Case & United Machine Workers Introduction to the case analysis The legal aspect of every contract in business requires critical analysis for every term in accordance to the specifics upon which both parties are involved. The reason for analyzing such terms carefully is because it can become a crucial part in determining the decision making when addressing any business problem. This is generally more important from the perspective of the company management because some situations can result in high intensity and significance for the company. Analyzing the terms of a contract will help avoid any inappropriate or insufficient conclusions when presenting a final resolution in times of a dispute. The case to be evaluated in this assignment is the result from an opposing perception of an issue in which both party’s are involved. The grievance is the result from the opposing views on a subordination matter; that of the management’s perspective and that of the employee. The case to be evaluated can very easily occur in an actual situation and I would like to write this analysis from the management’s perspective. Summary of the issue(s) The problem involves the contradicting views of a legal issue within the union contract reached between our firm, the Acme Manufacturing Company (the company) and the United Machine Workers Union (the union). The parties in question in the dispute are Mrs. Kyla Martin, a machine operator working in...
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... recruitment of foreign workers could possibly be the easiest way to help overcome the shortage of local labor at construction sites . It is well understood that the major cause of manpower shortage is the employers’ reluctance to pay higher wages to the locals, which would consequently increase their expenditure (Abdul Rahim Abdul Hamid, Bachan Singh, Aminah Md Yusof & Nur Ahikin M. Abdullah, 2011) . For this particular reason, the number of local workers keeps lessening each year, resulting in a massive employment of foreign workers instead. The former Minister of Human Resources, Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn stated that despite Malaysia currently having about 1.8 million foreign workers, there are still hundreds of applications submitted every month by local companies to the Home Affairs Ministry, requesting to hire more foreign workers (Bernama, 2006) . The statement evidently proves that the demand for foreign construction workers is tremendously high, due to the shortage of local workers. Another cause of labor shortage is local preferences. The locals refuse to work at construction sites generally because they prefer easier jobs. This is especially true when they have higher education levels, which enable them to demand for jobs that have good image...
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...1/10 were Irish). They were super-fast at learning how to do their duties and did them quickly and safely. At first, Superintendent James Harvey Strobrigde of the Central Pacific didn’t like Chinese laborers, but after white laborers didn’t keep their jobs, their investor suggested that they hire Chinese laborers. After about a month of watching the Chinese laborers work on the railroads, he thought they were excellent at what they were doing and started hiring them. When the railroad was done, he invited most of the Chinese laborers to his boarding car to dine with him. When they entered, all of the guests and officers cheered for them. Life on the Railroads: Chinese laborers who worked on railroads had a different life than the other workers. Though some sources say that Chinese laborers were content with low wages, some of them actually rebelled to get higher pay. In China, if you protested, then you could get beheaded, but in America, you could get your way with things. One morning, when all 2,000 Chinese laborers came out to work, they all sat down on the tracks and didn’t move. The manager kept telling them that they had to work, but they all sat silently on the tracks. After that, they all went back into their tents and didn’t come back out. Their slogan for the strike was “eight-hour day good for white man—all the same good for Chinaman”. They did not get higher pay. Charles Crocker, the founder of Central Pacific, said that he is in charge and they are not. He said he...
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...Should UCCC have provided care? Although the law does not require private ambulatory care centers to render aid to undocumented workers, especially since this is a nonlife-threatening emergency, UCCC is not required to act, but I believe doing so was the right course of action. Not only is responding to the needs of the local community good, it also further establishes UCCC’s mission to provide our patients with accessible, affordable, and quality healthcare. Local, State, & Federal Laws on rendering care to Undocumented Workers. Florida state law is very vague when it comes to providing care to undocumented workers in a private family medical practice setting. The bulk of laws pertaining to the provision of care to undocumented workers are contained in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). However, these laws pertain to hospitals with emergency departments; stating that anyone in need of lifesaving treatment regardless of nationality or ability to pay, will be stabilized. Additionally, hospitals that do receive these patients and stabilize them will reimbursed by the federal government....
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...During the course of this class (Operations and Supply Chain Management) and over the next couple weeks, I will be analyzing a company that works with workers’ compensation. This company’s setting is to achieve the best financial and health outcomes for its clients. Their line of work is located within healthcare industry, however primarily focuses on pharmaceuticals. They do not prescribe the medications, but are highly concerned about the safety of patients consuming a higher dosage than normal or consuming an excessive amount of medications for unrelated reasons to injury. The company strives to sustain safety for both the cost and the medications being taken by its clients. Their line of duty is to eliminate unnecessary treatment and reduce directionless worker’ compensations medical claims; setting up comprehensive evidence-base discussions for physicians to discuss an optimal intervention plan for patients. My company of choice is PRIUM. The company has been servicing clients since 1986. Since then, the company not only increased in employees, but also expanded it services. In the last couple of years, PRIUM merged with Ameritox that deals with pain medication monitoring solutions, collectively, providing comprehensive manage care and medical intervention services. With both being sister companies, it allows them to offer a wide...
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...different professions, for example the Canadian Association of Social Workers guidelines for ethical practices, states that social workers are not to engage in sexual activities or sexual contact with former clients. (Canadian Association of Social Workers, 2005) The College of Physicians and Surgeons Standard of Practice lists many examples of sexualizing an interaction such as sexualizing comments, sexualizing body contact and making physician-patient sexual contact. (College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2011) The issue of having a sexual relationship with a former client is continuously being publicized in the news and has seemingly become quite common in today’s society. This past year a twenty-seven year old Edmonton teacher admitted to having a sexual relationship with a fifteen-year-old student that attended...
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...Ralph’s Grocery and United Food and Commercial Workers Union The case that I chose for the week 6 critical thinking assignment concerns Ralph’s Grocery Company, located in California. It applies to this week’s material due to the fact that the case involves unlawful suspension and discharge of an employee, as reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board. Background In May 2011, Vittorio Razi was an employee at Ralph’s Grocery and was suspended and terminated after he refused to take a drug test without first consulting with his UFCW Local 324 representative. The company (Respondent) says that on the day in question, Razi’s behavior was in question, acting nervous, anxious, agitated, and slurred speech. After a couple managers discussed the...
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...A Social Worker Case Study Phoenix A Social Worker Case Study The social worker in the case study displays characteristics of an effective helper. An effective helper has accurate empathy for her clients (O'Hagan, 2007). The helping relationship begins with the development of trust and empathy. The worker seems to understand the clients’ pain. Compassion and understanding assist the helper to identify with a problem. The employee acknowledges how heartbreaking it is to watch the family submit the care of their loved ones to the institution. The worker has absolute desire to help the clients recover. She reveals warmth as she interacts daily with residents, families, and staff in the institution. Values are important in influencing the use of her skills. Professional ethics guides her actions. The social worker treats the residents with respect, dignity, and integrity. As a human service professional, she is expected to maintain confidentiality about clients’ condition except in cases where there is suspected danger or harm to themselves or others (Doel, 2012). Her prior work experience motivated the use of her skills. She is thorough in what she does. She obtains a comprehensive psychological report on each client and draws decisions from the history obtained from the assessments. At community level, the social worker plays the role of advocacy. She is persuasive, assertive, and patient in her day-to-day...
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...Case Study Analysis: The Reluctant Workers Name Withheld BUS xxx-Business Class Professor Name Withheld Saturday, May x, 20xx Case Study Analysis: The Reluctant Workers Tim Aston, a young Project Manager only three months into the company, is experiencing difficulty with the operation of his project. The case study is a dialog between Tim and his director, Phil Davies, concerning the advancement of the project. The analysis is on three of the ten effective program management skills and the improvements that should be made for the project to succeed. The three skills identified and analyzed are team building, leadership, and management support, based on my interpretation of the case study. I also have recommendations for both the project manager and the director of project management that will improve environment for the project, and the relationship between the project manager and his staff, and between the project manager and the director of project management. Team Building Team building is described as one of the main responsibilities of the program manager.. "Team building involves a whole spectrum of management skills required to identify, commit, and integrate the various task groups from the traditional functional organization into a single program management system. To be effective, the program manager must provide an atmosphere conducive to teamwork." (Kerzner, 2009, p 148-149) The characteristics for effective team building are choosing committed workers...
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...48,000 rubber wheels per year for its popular dump truck series. The firm makes its own wheels, which it can produce at a rate of 800 per day. The toy trucks are assembled uniformly over the entire year. Carrying cost is $1 per wheel a year. Set up cost for a production run of wheels is $45. The firm operates 240 days per year. Determine the following: 1. Optimal run size -2400 2. Minimum total annual cost for carrying and set-up ….$1,800 3. Cycle time for the optimal run size……12days 4. Run time…….3days 2. The maintenance department of a large hospital uses about 816 cases of liquid cleanser annually. Ordering costs are $12, carrying costs are $4 per case a year, and the new price schedule indicates that orders of less than 50 cases will cost $20 per case, 50 to 79 cases will cost $18 per case, 80 to 99 cases will cost $17 per case, and large orders (100+) will cost $16 per case. Determine the optimal order quantity and the total cost. (please note there was an error in the question) Optimal order quantity…….100. TC =$13,354 (3) Open Campus one of the UWI’s four campuses promotes a wide variety of executive- training courses for firms in the Mobay area. The Director believes that individually typed letters add a personal touch to marketing. To prepare letters for mailing, she conducts a time study of her secretaries. On the basis of the observations shown in the following table, she wishes to develop a time standard for the whole job. The campus uses a total...
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...Another point that needs to be considered is our griever’s compassion towards his fellow co-worker, Mr. Butler. Knowing the uncomfortable relationship between him and Mr. Chevalier, who is the boss, our griever was concerned that Mr.Butler would have a possibility of losing his job although his intention was not realistically harming Mr. Chevalier. Our griever understood that Mr.Butler has been working hard for the university for 15 years and it would be unfair for him to be fired due to Under 7:4427: Compassion, it is written that It is a well-settled principle of arbitration law that a board of arbitration should not invoke its discretionary powers to mitigate a penalty on compassionate grounds alone. 1 …On the other hand, the view has also been expressed that if, at the end of a case, an arbitrator harbours any reasonable doubt as to the propriety of a sanction, then the grievor should be given the benefit of that doubt. In the past, similar cases have happened that we could relate to this problem. First case occurred in National Car Rental Inc. The greivor in this case left work without permission to drive company’s vehicle. However, it was found that greivor’s action was motivated by a legimate concern for the safety of a loved one who appeared to be in danger. Evidently, the arbitrator reinstated the grievor to his formal position. Another case that we could relate to occurred in St. Lawrence Seaway Company. The greivor got into an argument with the manager during the meeting...
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...Case 7: The knowledge worker strike Detonation Media, a software company based in Mountain View, California, is facing with a demonstration from the Software Engineers Guild (SEG) which comprises about half of Detonation 10,000 employees. The employees have been working e months without a contract. They’re well paid, however, they have to work over the clock, which made their career as short as a NFL’s running back. Furthermore, the gaming industry is also layoff in the gaming industry, which fueling rumors of potential cutbacks at Detonation. However, the demonstration is lightly attended, most of the programmer remains at their computer. Tetsui Wakatanabe, Detonator’s star developer, haven’t give much thought to the contract as he has been concentratingon his new hit game: Couch Ninjas 2. However, he would want the negotiation to end quickly as a strike would prevent his games from completion. Two months after the protest, Carol Lee, Detonation’s general cousel and lead negotiator received a call from Emilio Teti, Detonation’s CEO. Emilio wants to push on the negotiation while the layoff in GameCrack had just happen and therefore, remove the pay raised package from the negotiation clause from the original boosting pay and benefit by 5% annually. However, they are also negotiating on two point: SEG pay to be move to profit sharing rather than revenue sharing and SEG jurisdiction will be extend to internet from the original just on PC and consoles. Emilio wants to remove...
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...With these developments, it is obvious that conflicts between parties of different nationalities occur and liability to tax on income of foreigners especially among those engaging in trading venture. Whilst the laws affecting domicile and residence may be sufficiently settled, it is paramount for courts to pursue a detailed analysis to ascertain specific preliminary issues so as to avoid controversial rulings. Courts often handle numerous financial cases that involve what can be best described as foreign or international elements. In such cases, court must decide whether it has the jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 to make a decision on such cases. In the event that it is determined that the court is invested with the jurisdiction to determine the case, the court has to consider whether there is a system of law in foreign country that also has the jurisdiction to handle the case. As it was addressed in the case Attorney General of New Zealand v Ortiz [1984] AC 1, these benefits and costs to either party if the case resolution is made in foreign country as compared with the apparent country should also be a subject of concern. [1] Legal systems in most countries around the world adopt community property regime, which takes effect at the inception of marriage or at the time of divorce. For instance, California and Massachusetts in the United States have adopted community property regimes that support equal division of assets upon divorce. However, this provision...
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...Adapted from Bernhardt & Kinnear (1988). Cases in marketing management, pp. 6-16. Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc. Pay careful attention to the following points. They are often used by instructors to evaluate either a written or oral analysis. 1. Be complete. Each area of the situation analysis must be discussed, problems and opportunities identified, alternative presented and evaluated using the situation analysis and relevant financial analysis, and a decision must be made. An analysis that omits part of the situation analysis or only recognizes one alternative is not a good analysis. Second, each area must be covered in-depth and within insight. 2. Avoid rehashing case facts. Every case has a lot of factual information. A good analysis uses facts that are relevant to the situation at hand to make summary points of analysis. A poor analysis just restates or rehashes theses facts without making relevant summary comments. 3. Make reasonable assumptions. Every case is incomplete in terms of some piece of information that you would like to have. A good case analysis must make realistic assumptions to fill in the gaps of information in the case. For example, the case may not describe the purchase decision process for the product of interest. A poor analysis would either omit mentioning this or just state that no information is available. A good analysis would attempt to present this purchase decision process by classifying the product and drawing upon real life...
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...are given. It is understandable then that we should seek out more opportunities to apply our skills and make more positive impacts within our jurisdictions. It is this general attitude that led us to get involved in investigating cold cases. How We Got Started Mark had, for several years, been consulting with our Coroner’s Division as a forensic anthropologist. During this time he came to learn that there were numerous coroners’ cases in which the identity of the decedent was unknown. These cases were kept in three-ring binders on a shelf in the Sergeant’s office. Over the years, in the course of this forensic work, we would discuss these cases and the progress that was being made on them. The conversation usually ran along the lines of us asking “any luck with that 1980 homicide victim?” and the sergeant answering “well, we’ve gotten so many new cases that I haven’t been able to even look at it yet.” This went on for a few years and through two different sergeants. One day we, as a crime analysis unit, were brainstorming about how we could broaden our “client base”, as it were. We had been successful in integrating ourselves into our Investigations Bureau and had been involved in numerous major cases. And, of course, we had always been active in producing tactical and strategic analyses for our patrol personnel. But we knew that we could be doing more, particularly given the size and responsibilities of our agency. It was during...
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