10 Review introduction to contracts A contract is a promise that the law will enforce. Contracts are intended to make business matters more predictable. Analyzing a contract generally involves inquiring into some or all of these issues: 1. What is the subject of the agreement? • If the contract is for the sale of goods, UCC Article 2 governs. • If the contract is for services, employment, or real estate, the common law governs. 2. Did the parties intend to contract? • If the parties
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the Great Depression. According to this act, a law was implemented that required governmental contractors to pay ‘prevailing wages’ on projects that it took on behalf of the federal government. The effect of this legislation was that more than 40 states adopted the ‘little Davis-Bacon Acts’ or ‘prevailing wage’ laws. This was then, but later on, many states repealed these statutes. Still, many states today, including Michigan, carry on with such laws that seem to have become obsolete from those Depression-days
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To: Marylee Luther, HR Director Clapton Commercial Construction From: Sara Christopher, Consultant at Atwood and Allen Consulting Date: May 25, 2015 Subject: Employment Law Compliance Plan Here at Atwood and Allen Consulting, we understand your need for advice when it comes to expanding your company into Arizona. With this expansion, it would take Clapton Commercial Construction at its total employee range of 650, and add an additional 130 employees into the Arizona site for a grand total of
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rapid increase in immigrants who have come to the region seeking better lives for their families. These immigrants, like those throughout U.S. history, are generally hard workers and make important contributions to the economy through their productive labor and purchasing power. Most immigrants usually fill essential service jobs in the economy, which are vacant. Unfortunately, like new immigrants throughout U.S. history, “they experience conditions that are commonly deprived, oppressive, and exploitive”
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Statutory Regulation of Employment. I have prepared an outline below explaining the five key regulatory areas that include Employee’s Privacy, Employees Unions, Occupational Safety Health Act (OSHA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The outline will explain the company’s obligation and what the law requires. Employee Privacy Privacy Act of 1974, according to Bennett-Alexander, 2007, there are four basic principles that underlay the Privacy Act:
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negotiation in collective bargaining? Process in AIM Company When Mr. Jefferson investigated through the AIM Company, there were some problem between management and employees the management lack the trust upon the employees as well poor relation with unions. He wants to set out the vision for new employee relations. I am the management consultant of AIM Company so I will negotiation and bargaining in AIM organization between Mr. Jefferson and his managers on the employee relation culture. Collective
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Unions and the Human Resources Department: Information and Trends Unions and the Human Resources Department: Information and Trends Introduction: Compared to personnel management, human resource management is relatively a new approach to manage people. Since human resource is the most valuable asset of an organization without which it could not possibly be able to use any other resources and run the business. So it becomes quite necessary to manage the human resources efficiently and effectively
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including human resource (or personnel) management, employee relations, and union-management (or labor) relations. Since the mid-twentieth century, however, the term has increasingly taken on a narrower, more restricted interpretation that largely equates it with unionized employment relationships. In this view, industrial relations pertains to the study and practice of collective bargaining, trade unionism, and labor-management relations, while human resource management is a separate, largely distinct
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the Great Depression. According to this act, a law was implemented that required governmental contractors to pay ‘prevailing wages’ on projects that it took on behalf of the federal government. The effect of this legislation was that more than 40 states adopted the ‘little Davis-Bacon Acts’ or ‘prevailing wage’ laws. This was then, but later on, many states repealed these statutes. Still, many states today, including Michigan, carry on with such laws that seem to have become obsolete from those Depression-days
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Labor Management Relations Labor management as a definitive term spans over the centuries. Despite the age and issues presented over the years, labor management and, more pointedly, unions continue to be the subject of great debate in today’s business and government environments. As workers and union representatives remain in the forefront of corporate debates over workers rights and wages, one must question how effective labor management relations are today. Unions present the opportunity for
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