Legal, safety and regulatory requirements on HR process Name Course Instructor Institution Date Safety, legal and regulatory matters have an enormous effect on the human resource because common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by litigations. In the society today, litigation seems to be an increasing greatly and administrators try to create human resource processes that avoid any possible litigation on them and their organizations (Dimond, 2010). I completely agree
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How to Recruit Applicants for Key Roles at a New Office Rhonda L. Grossley MGMT315 – 1402B – 04 Professor Barbara Chappell 05/31/2014 Abstract This paper will talk about the legal statues of selecting and hiring of employees. I will also discuss the type of position that is filled in the new office. I will talk about the experiences, education level, and qualifications for the position. It will also discuss the interviews and the abilities of testing, and the weaknesses and strengths. It
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all across the world have been discriminating against disabled people for decades. This problem did not get recognized until the ADA or Americans with Disabilities Act was passed by President George Bush in 1990. This issue is a global problem that needs to end for the safety and well being of all disabled people. What exactly does the ADA do? The ADA was an act that was passed to protect the rights of disabled people that are discriminated against for being different. The ADA stop companies from
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opportunity laws. These are equal pay act of 1963 which prohibits discrimination in pay between men and women performing the same job in the same organization. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from basing employment decisions on a person’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It has amended or interpreted to prohibit discrimination based on pregnancy and sexual harassment. Most recently, it has been amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which places the burden
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of individuals and has been happening for many decades. In the U.S., employment discrimination occurs whenever an employer or its representatives adversely single out employees or applicants on the basis of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion and a variety of other reasons. Laws have been prepared to discourage discrimination from occurring. Equal opportunities laws aim to create a level playing field so that people are employed, paid, trained and promoted only because of
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I have been directed to research and make recommendations concerning three personnel issues. These issues pertain to possible violations of the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and the Americans with Disability Act of 1990. Situation A involves the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 and Employee A. Employee A has been employed by our company for two years and requested leave to assist at home due to unforeseen complications with the birth
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students, in particular African-American students. Finkel uses data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to support his claims that African American students have been negatively impacted by the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed almost a decade prior. Finkel interviews several sources who work for or with educational institutions to get their expertise in the matter. The information that was provided in this article gives a clear stance on African-American education and the effect
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Labeling deafness as a disability fails to acknowledge the social process through which a Deaf child could become ostracized and excluded from society. It is commonly argued that if a child becomes isolated, it was the fault of the disability itself, not the society as large. Historically, the dominant hearing culture has demoted Deaf people to social categories such as handicapped, disabled, and outsider (Kelleher, 2017). An ever-increasing number of Deaf people do not consider themselves to be
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Obstacles in the way of The American Dream In the book Of Mice and Men the author, Steinbeck, is trying to portray the obstacles people go through to obtain their dream. The American dream is a dream many people in the early thirties wanted to acquire due to the Great Depression and the crash of the stock market. But many times the plans of individuals go wrong as shown in the poem Steinbeck alludes to written by Roberts Bruns. Barriers the characters encounter such as Lennie, who faces a lack
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