Employment Law and Interviewing Practices The interview I conducted with Mr. Deed’s touch on employment laws; and interviewing practices, and how they have changed over the course of his accounting career. Employment laws were change to protect employees from any mistreatments by their employers. The mistreatment included; discrimination, sexual harassment, fair wages, employee benefits and much more. However, this also changed how each company deals with issues of employment laws. Organizations today now create a manual that includes; job description and procedures, rules and regulations, employee benefits, such as, vacation and sick time, pension and retirement plans and much more. New hires are obligate to read it, sign it and give back to the HR department and file in the employee’s file. This manual is the guidelines of the do’s and do not’s of the company. Every event that happens at the company could be a possible exposure to a law suit, and precautions have to be dealt with from the beginning. The new laws affect the way the company hires people, treats them at work, fire them and even the reference we give them.
“Employer-employee relationship exists when an employer hires an employee to perform some form of physical service”. (Cheeseman, 2012, pg. 518)
History of the EEOC “Interview and employment practices are monitor by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Originally The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was created, and from 1965 to today, the EEOC's priority has remained the same: eliminating workplace discrimination”. (www.legalzoom.com) The Commission enforces equal rights protection in the workplace which starts right away, in the job interview. If someone requests an application to work in your establishment, the law requires giving it to them. The law also dictates what kinds of questions that can be ask of this