Steve Wood LIT1 - Legal Issues for Business Organizations Task 1 Scenario A The purpose of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is to offer a balance between the stresses of both work and life. There are three main provisions of the act that are critical to the overall takeaway of what this law means to this situation. First, “Eligible employees can take unpaid, job-protected leave (they can return to their position). When they return from leave, FMLA guidelines require that companies return
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LIT1 Task 2 Part B As director of the human resources at Company X I have evaluated the three given situations regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. As head of the oversight hiring and employment practices at the company it is my responsibility to insure Company X is in compliance with the federal regulations against discrimination in hiring, employment, and federal law regarding the treatment of
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Interactive Simulation Paper Workplace discrimination may take different forms-gender, age group; race, national origin, faith, or disability-and can have enormous legal and fiscal repercussions for organizations. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are a few of the laws and regulations which make discrimination unlawful in the conditions and terms of job, for example hiring, leave policy, performance
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American’s with Disabilities Act of 1990. These laws and organizations address issues such as discrimination in the workplace, sexual harassment, safety in the workplace, senseless firing, and denial of employee rights. Unfortunately, several of these human resource laws are very complex. For example, according to Gomez-Mejia (2012), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is extremely long and there are over 1,000 different disabilities that affect over 43 million Americans (p. 95). Due
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Company X, maintaining each employee or potential employee’s privacy by using anonymous names to describe them. In regards to Employee A, I have looked at the policies and procedures surrounding the situation and understand that the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) applies here. FMLA applies to companies with more than 50 employees and to employees who have been with the company for more than a year, though the year does not need to be consecutive. FMLA provides employees with 12 weeks of unpaid leave in
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to their attention within the workplace. The employer must also come to a conclusion through their investigation. It is also an employer’s responsibility to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. These accommodations may be due to a disability of
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Leave Act. Now to complicate matters worse, the department manager that was in charge of this employee left during the employee’s leave. Eleven weeks have gone by and the employee wants to come back to work and receive the pay he missed while attending to his family. As a human resource director there are many situations that fall into grey areas, and you have to look at all options and think through the best results for both parties involved. The definition of the Family Medical leave Act according
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Legal Process Paper All over America many Americans have been the victims of some form of discrimination. Even innocent children have fallen victim as students to bias teachers who prefer one personality to another. Still, an even more detrimental form of discrimination can be found hidden in the U.S. workplace. Discrimination in the workplace, or Employment discrimination, can “include bias in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, compensation, retaliation, and various types
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privacy rights. Pre-employment privacy rights for both public and private sector employees are very limited beyond this. Post-employment privacy rights are also often the ancillary effect of discrimination laws. For example, the Americans with the Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) specifically prohibits the disclosure of medical information relating to disabled. In the public sector, two factors govern the permissible extent of intrusion into an individual's affairs, that is, the relation of the subject's
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Working as an Employer with ADA The Americans with Disability Act was established in 1990. This law was passed to prohibit discrimination of those with disabilities. We discussed the difference between local, state, and federal laws and concluded that ADA was a federal law. ADA disabilities cover not only physical but mental disabilities. This law those only applies to employers with 15+ employees. Those who do not, like small family owned businesses, do not have to follow this law, although they
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