...According to Webster's Dictionary The definition of minimum wage is “the lowest wage paid or permitted to be paid” (“Minimum Wage”). The big question is, should minimum wage be raised? Over the years there have been many protests in Wisconsin because of people thinking that they deserve a higher pay rate. I strongly disagree with this controversial topic of raising minimum wage because it will cause more job layoffs and cut benefits, small businesses can’t afford it, and it will reduce the worker's motivation to get a higher education. $0.25 an hour was the first federal minimum wage in the 1930’s (“Why We Should Not Raise the Minimum Wage”). Although the minimum wage has raised to $7.25 per hour since then, many people still believe it is still not high enough....
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...Tanya Adams 2/5/2016 Prof. Business ethics Written Assignment-M5 Assigned questions: The original assignment in this module dealt primarily with employers trying to find wrongdoing by employees. We now turn to the question of employee rights and employer obligations. Using at least two (2) of the foundational ethical theories studied in Module 2, you should answer the following questions. With each answer, you should discuss the issues and set forth and defend a clear position. --Federal law requires that employers pay a minimum wage and pay overtime, although some believe that the concept of a living wage is the more ethical standard. Explain and defend your position on whether you agree or disagree. * I agree that the ethical standard for a living wage is more appropriate than the minimum wage that employers pay. If you look at a city like New York for instance it’s pretty expensive to live there. From food to paying rent and if you have kids that’s extra expenses that you have to pay for. Morally wrong for employers to pay minimum of $8.50 an hour for employees to live off of. Recently I remember Mcdonald’s holding a protest to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour in order to get a better living and providing for the families. I can relate this to Kant’s categorical imperative theory in which the “individuals should act in such a way that we can will the maxim of our action to become a universal law”( shaw and Barry pg.66). They acted on bringing...
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...immensely happier if one thing did not exist in their life: stress. What is the one thing that Americans’ have in common that causes them the most stress? It’s something that takes up a majority of peoples’ time and puts food on the table. That one thing is work. Work is a large part of why people in the United States and all across the world want to pull out their hair and call it quits. An enormous aspect of why work might be stressful is caused by the actual work environment. You can tell the difference between stress levels when walking into a newspaper HQ and walking into a jewelry store. An article called “Toward Human Sustainability: How to Enable More Thriving at Work” talks about how to create a less stressful work environment. The article gives managers and companies detailed instructions on how to lower stress and what its positive outputs in the workspace are. An issue that works against lowering stress in the workplace is the fact that Americans just are not taking days off from work anymore. A website by the name of “Project: Time Off” creates blog posts and detailed analyses on what exactly happens when Americans do not take time off. One of these analyses include “Overwhelmed America: Why Don’t We Use Our Earned Leave?” This analysis includes abundant data and explanations on how the relationship between worker and company are when relating to days off. Creating a leisurely and stress-free work environment should be the end goal of all future managers. Many college students...
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...many years throughout the workplace. Women today are almost as equal as men in the workplace, but it has taken lots of work to get there. In this paper, you will read about the beginning of when women started working, some of the key examples as to why women have been treated unfairly, and through today, how things have changed. Only after you read this paper, you will then see why women have fault so hard to be just as equal as men in the workplace. Women have always been know to raise children and take care of the home and honestly that was their only job. You agree? Well, before they started working within the workforce with men, this is exactly how their lives were. They got married, had kids, and then raised the family. Raising the family consisted of cooking, cleaning, and doing whatever was necessary to ensure that the kids and their husband was taken care of. “Most families lived off of a single husband’s income, which was very challenging at times, especially for the middle-class family. Back in the 1900’s, wages paid to a semi-skilled working man were around $12-$15 a week” (Smith, 1994, pg 61). Looking at today and the inflation that has happened over the years, this is what some people make per hour. As making a living got more and more expensive, women had to find other means to help their husband’s bring in income. When life starts to get tough, what other option is there but for women to start helping raise income for the family? You could say that women have...
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...The gender wage gap has been an issue in the United States for many years. People argue that women in the workforce get paid less than what men in the workforce do, even if they are working with the same educational experience and same position. This topic interests me because I am surprised that people in the United States in 2015 are still treating women as inferior to men. I have always heard about the gender wage gap problem in the news on television or online. Something that I already know about this topic is that women get treated unfairly in the workforce when it comes to getting paid. Employers don’t pay women as much money as they pay men in the same field throughout the year or even throughout the month. The main questions I want...
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... whether it is in stores or online. They are the ones putting money in the business which emphasises their status as key stakeholders. The customers want high quality products for reasonable prices and they like to see offers and deals which helps create better value for money. | The customers of Cancer Research UK are either those affected by Cancer or those who donate money to the charity. Those who donate expect their money to be put to good use. These are known as stakeholders because they contain a big proportion of the charity’s donations. This means they expect the charity to provide the best treatment and care possible for those suffering from the disease. | Employees | These are the people who work for Tesco. They are known as stakeholders because they rely on the business doing well in order to secure their employment. These employees often look to gain promotions by taking the best opportunities available. Also, these employees may feel privileged that they represent Tesco. | Many of the people working for Cancer Research UK are volunteers. They are offering their free time to the business to do whatever they can in order to help them. These are stakeholders to Cancer Research UK because they are relying on the businesses to make use of their free time they are offering. The employees of the business that are paid wages are the doctors and nurses that provide health care and treatment to the patients. These are also stakeholders because without them, the patients...
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...Compensation is a routine approach to granting monetary value to employees in exchange for work completed and can accomplish numerous purposes helping in areas of recruitment, job performance, and job satisfaction. The competitive and global marketplaces as well as employee benefit programs today has become known as necessary tools used by companies to draw creative and useful employees. Meeting the requests and needs of employees can be rather complicated during difficult financial times in which businesses must find its balance between compensation methods and keeping overhead costs low. This paper will analyze the impact of various compensation methods and benefit programs on employees and organization. The paper will also relate salary and benefit administration strategies to organizational culture and performance. Compensation Methods Compensation and benefit strategies are ways that organizations can use pay and benefits to recognize and reward employees’ contributions to the organization’s success (OPPapers, 2008). In a retail or customer service organization, workers are usually compensated by one of the following methods: 1. A direct salary or hourly rate, 2. Salary in addition to commission, 3. Quota bonus, 4. Commission without advances or 5. Commission with advances. Although commission payments are tied to sales, the requirements of the exemption are that more than half the employer’s compensation characterizes commissions on services; which can include all sorts...
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...“usually work without a contract or any kind of agreement, written or oral… they perform work that is physically pushing, involving heavy lifting, long hours, and exposure to… harmful cleaning products.” (Fredrickson 58) Barbara Ehrenreich, perfectly describes how immigrants are being treated inside the workforce. Immigrants not only experience this but may “ be subject to physical and verbal abuse by their employers.” (Fredrickson 58) Immigrants and women are treated unfairly because of the traditional idea or global belief that they are inferior. Or that women should stay at home, and the men should provide for the family. This belief/idea have continue to affect how women and immigrants should be treated especially in the workforce. For example, the probability of “women choosing a high-paid major… is 20% less.” (Boeri 99) Women have stopped aspiring to get high paying jobs because they know that even if they become a doctor, CEO, etc they will still be paid less than men. All these issue we have addressed so far are the reasons why women and immigrants continue fighting. They want to be treated equally because it may cause an impact to their lives or even to their families well...
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...Then explain reasons why or why not. This writer will tell whether or not the United States should require organizations to provide paid maternity leave if so, discuss whether or not the United States should assist the companies financially in this endeavor. This writer will describe the stance of the United States requiring organizations to offer paternity leave. They give rationale for the position of choice. Also state whether specialized organizational arrangements can be made for those workers wish to combine career and raising children, and give an explanation why or why not. If specialized organizational arrangement should be made for the workers, explain the steps that an organization can take to accommodate them adequately with their parental needs. Lastly, state whether a firm should be obligated to give employees flexibility to work out a particular career and family balance that is right for them. State whether this is far beyond the social responsibility of the organization, then justify the response. Swedish Daddies Today, we value family and career. Although women have yet to attain full worth at the highest levels of business, they compose nearly half the United States workforce. Their salary is not so very far behind that of men. Balancing both career and family can be a source of aggravation and frustration to the women in the corporate world. They often feel forced to choose between motherhood and a high-powered career jobs. Most women want to pursue genuine...
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...accompany employee layoffs. Describing a process of conducting the dismissal meeting. Determining a fictitious company and the result of firing an employee. We will create a chart that shows and depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation, and last but not least predicting ways that a layoff may affect the company. Ways managers can cope with employee layoffs One way managers cope with dealing with a layoff would be to explain the decision, tell the worker why layoffs were necessary and why he or she was chosen to be laid off. This gives them an idea of why they are being laid off. Getting to this point is hard enough but to actually speak to an employee about being laid off is hard, I have never been in a predicament to tell an employee they have been laid off and vice versa. In many organizations you have managers that does not care or have a heart. They do not mind laying off employees, because either the employee could be dead weight to the company, a whistle blower or just because they want to layoff to keep money into the...
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................................. 12 FPC COMPANY OVERVIEW Food Process and Control was founded in 1980, it is a small company that consults and designs line and control systems for food, beverage and cosmetic industries. Humberto Martinez is the engineer who does all the blue prints and he has four welders and a secretary. His matto of his company is that they are “small enough to care and large enough to serve” (Humberto,2010). This small company started operations offering a good package of benefits to attract good talent. The benefits exceeded those of similar or larger companies.The original package offered Complete Medical, 3 week vacation plus all official Holidays paid, plus other non official Holidays, besides the company included five sick days that could be used or paid at the end of the year. Also the company offered a generous bonus at the end of the year (Martinez, 2010). The Medical covered 100% of the premiums for the employee , and his/her spouse and 50% on children- all with $500.00 deductible plan, and...
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...Undocumented Workers Undocumented workers are present in every country, especially in America; the government is trying to cut the number of its undocumented or illegal workers. But are undocumented workers ruining economy or supporting it, are they stealing jobs from local people or just taking unattractive jobs? Issue of undocumented or illegal workers is very complex, but I will try to find out the truth in my research. Once I had been in a small resort city and asked an owner of a small ice-cream place why most of the workers were foreigners. She told me that usually foreigners are more reliable and responsible and are more afraid of losing their jobs then American workers. That was the reason why every summer she tried to hire foreigners as first opinion and only than American workers. Is this an example of discrimination? I would not say so. Employer is interested to hire employees that would be able to perform their job in the best way. It just happened so that in a low paid hard jobs immigrants perform much better then American workers. Not only because this “low salary” is much higher than in their home country, but also because American workers are not willing to work hard for low salary. As a result, I would like to say the undocumented workers are supporting current American economy. Currently there are 11 million undocumented workers in the U.S. Mexicans constitute the huge part of the undocumented population as 57%, 23% are from other Latin countries, almost 10% are...
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...Does it benefit employees to have this as a mandate? Does it put too much of an impact on companies? With documentation on current laws, implementation processes, and effects of implementation one is able to weigh the pros with the cons. Is simply having FMLA in place enough? Is it a policy that is too easy abused? The FMLA entitles eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave each year for specified family and medical reasons. The FMLA applies to all government workers and private sector employers that employ 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius (Barth, S. & Hayes, D. K. 2009). Having this particular benefit, allows for employees to take time off in order to care for loved ones. This also guarantees the employee will not lose their job. Besides sick time, having additional benefits such as FMLA can help the employee deal with any family emergency. To be eligible for these benefits, an employee must have worked for an employer for a total of 12 months (not necessarily consecutively) and must have worked for the organization at least 1,250 hours in the past 12 months. These employees are generally guaranteed their current job, or one equal to it, on their return. If, however, an organization can show that it will suffer significant economic damage by having a “key” employee out on FMLA leave, the organization may deny the leave (DeCenzo, D. A. & Robbins, S. P. 2007). There are some guidelines to taking FMLA, and for good reasons. In order...
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...for (+ name / place of the company). e.g. Union Bank / IBM / Fiat / an international bank What your job involves 4. I'm in charge of e.g. a big company 5. I'm responsible for e.g. some workers in that department 6. I have to deal with e.g. any complaints / overseas clients, mainly 7. I run e.g. the company / a restaurant 8. I manage e.g. a shop in downtown Daily duties / routines 9. I have to go / attend (formal) e.g. (to) a lot of meetings / conferences 10. I visit / see / meet e.g. patients / clients 11. I advise e.g. people / clients and give them help... 12. It involves e.g. writing letters / filling in forms / doing a lot of paperwork / using computers a lot of the time Getting a job 13. It's not easy to get / find work e.g. in big cities / round these parts 14. I'd love to do e.g. marketing / this kind of work 15. It's difficult to make a living as a / an e.g. freelance writer 16. I've been offered a job e.g. in that company / in London 17. I've applied for a job e.g. in a local company / in the accounts department Working hours 18. I have a nine-to-five job / I work nine-to-five (regular working hours in Britain) 19. I do / work shift work. (nights one week, days next) 20. I am on flexi time. (flexible working hours) 21. I have to do / work overtime. (work extra hours) 22. I only work part-time / take a part-time job. (part of a day or a few days a week) 23. I am a workaholic. I work full-time. (work too much) 24. I took...
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...programs that allow them to flourish and do their best. Employees are offered a variety of benefits and perks that show REI’s respect for its employees and their families. REI offers competitive pay and benefits such as: 401K, vacation, paid holidays, paid sick leave, casual dress, life insurance, disability, flexible work schedule, and educational benefits. All employees who were paid an annual salary as high as $70,000 per year had the following benefits: 401K, vacation, paid holidays, paid sick leave, casual dress, flexible work schedule. Employees with life insurance and disability made a salary as high as $82,000 annually. Employees with education benefits made salaries as high as $65,000 per year according to Pay Scale report of 2009. In addition to these benefits, REI also has an Incentive Plan, Healthcare, Family & Medical Leave, Employee Discounts and Pro-deals, Work/Life Employee Assistance, Public Transit Subsidy, Relocation Support, Sabbaticals and Adoption Assistance. Controlling employee benefit costs can be a tricky subject for an organization such as REI. However, every business wants happy and healthy employees and this is why most organizations offer a benefits package to full-time workers such as health insurance and paid vacation and sick leave. Depending on how much REI can afford to spend on employee benefits annually, especially with health coverage, they can offer a number of flexible plans where employees can choose to spend the amounts allocated to...
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