1. Please select one or more of the questions included in the "Notebook," and post specific reasons why the questions should be avoided while interviewing applicants for a job; Have you ever been arrested? You can ask whether the applicant has ever been convicted of a felony.) The Wisconsin law prohibits inquires about past arrest records but permits consideration of current arrest. If an applicant is currently under arrest for an offense that is substantially related to the job, an employer may
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Security Amendment Act 1965, added Title XVIII and XIX to the Social Security Act. President Lyndon B Johnson was responsible for bringing about this change. Social Security Program started during the Great Depression of 1930s because of the stock market crash and bank failure, which wiped away the retirement savings of the Americans. Poverty rate among senior citizen exceeded 50% during this time. Social Security Act was created in an attempt to limit the five dangers of modern American Society. The
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2014 Introduction On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act (SSA) into American law. This Act was the first of its kind and was very different to the way Americans had thought up to that point; always pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, supporting their families and themselves without reliance on the government. When this Act was signed into law, it guaranteed income for those who were unemployed or retired. The SSA was part of Roosevelt’s
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Case Study: President of Community Medical Center Rochelle Mitchell MHA 601 Principle of Health Care Dr. Rutledge Ashford University As the president of Community Medical Center I have major decision to make. I will be making decision basis on the triangulation decision making models. I have chosen this model because it will allow a look into all situations. By using this model I will be taken a quantitative and qualitative approach to the decision process. By using the quantitative and
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employment. But now employment legislation acts protect workers’ right and status. Employers expect workers to be as productive as possible and produce the highest quality of products and services. Employees want their financial security, safety, better benefits, and suitable working condition. Employers have to watch over these factors. They can’t only concentrate on profit maximization but they also have to protect employee rights. Fair Labor Standards Acts of 1938 deal with minimum wage, overtime
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Lasting Effects When a baby is born a parent hopes for their children to be healthy, happy and normal. No parent ever hopes to raise a child with abnormalities or handicaps yet unfortunately, a percentage of babies born will have some form of a disability. Whether the condition a child has is of the mildest form requiring only supervision or is considered severe requiring lifelong care and medication, parents stress and have difficulties dealing with the everyday life their child goes through and
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Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) The FMLA allows employees who work for qualifying employers to take unpaid leave from their job for up to 12 weeks in a year if they meet certain criteria. To qualify the employee must have worked for the employer for at least a year and have worked at least 1,250 hours in the last twelve months with the company. There are several conditions that allow a qualifying employee to request this leave from their employer. One condition that will allow this
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Situation A The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), passed by Congress in 1993, guarantees eligible employees up to “12 work weeks of unpaid leave each year for childbirth, adoption, or medical emergencies for themselves or a family member” (Beatty & Samuelson, 2010). The employee and company must meet several conditions for the law to be applicable. FMLA has a broad spectrum and applies to public and privately held companies differently. In the case of public agencies, FMLA applies to all local
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