WEEK 12-Labor Law 1 a. NLRA and Section 7 and Labor Peace * Employers and unions if employees elect a union then an employer is required to bargain the union over wages, hours, terms, and conditions of employment. b. NLRB * 5 people appointed by the president that administer the act. They have to be approved by the senate c. PERA (Michigan) * Public employees relation act-covers public sector(payed by tax dollars) d. MERC * Michigan employment relations commission-governor
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regarding working conditions. Establishing an independent monitoring association like the “Fair Labor Association” (FLA) is a good way to improve bad labor standards. 2. What labor standards regarding safety, working conditions, overtime, and the like, should Nike hold foreign factories to: those prevailing in that country or those prevailing in the United States? In the article you can read that labor standards in the US and in foreign countries are very different. Everybody knows that minimum
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of people have regarded as China is the one of the biggest manufacture countries in the world. Cheap labor is widely seen as a prerequisite to China’s economic rise and as a major threat to China’s competitors. The low production costs in China have been blamed for countless job losses and plant closures elsewhere in the world as more and more investors flocked to this country. However, the Labor Contract Law of China, that came into effect on January 1, 2008, has been one of the most disputed laws
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| |CIPD Membership No: | |Unit code(s): |3MER | |Unit title(s): |Supporting Good Practice in Managing Employee Relations | |Unit tutor: |Mr. Kevin | |Date due for assessment:
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we have moved from before the Toronto Typographical Union Strike, to today’s average day white picket fence working man’s 9-5, and all of the history, heartbreak and “striking” facts in between. The history of Labour Day started with the Toronto Typographical Union when in March 1872 they went on strike when its demands for a shorter work week were ignored. A couple of weeks later a parade was organized in downtown Toronto to support them with ten thousand participants. George Brown hit them with
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5-4: In general what is a union “local”. What are the role and functions of union locals? How are they structured and governed? A local union can either be independent or it can be affiliated with and subject to the authority of a provincial, national, or international (US based) parent union. The local level is the union, while in the latter, it serves as the basic unit of the union. Union locals are typically established on the basis of geographical proximity. Locals typically represent
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Changing Landscape of Unions Week Two Assignment BUS 372 Employee & Labor Relations Instructor: Charles Pugh Constance Hall Lindemann September16, 2013 Unions were created in America after the Declaration of Independence was written by many of the skilled craftsmen whom fashioned guilds; these craftsmen formed these guilds in groups of persons who had the skill set to protect their common interests. For instance as the Industrial Revolution begin in America, the basis for the modern unions
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BMGN N470 – Presentation Comparison of labor laws between UAE and a selected country Deadline: WEEK 6 In pairs prepare a 20 minute in-class presentation based “Comparing labor laws of the UAE and another country” In pairs the student are to carry out in-depth study of labor laws of their chosen country and compare the country’s labor laws to UAE’s labor law in areas such as: * Employment Contracts * Wages * Working Hours * Union * Leave Entitlements * Employee records *
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Week 6 Chapter 10 &11 & 8 Describe the advantages and disadvantages of grievance mediation. Grievance mediation is “the use of a neutral third party as one step in a grievance procedure,” (Carrell & Heavrin, 2010, p. 496, para 1). Some of the advantages of grievance mediation are cost savings, time savings, both parties can identify their case without worrying about the decision being final, being able to resolve issues, cost settlement can be avoided. Neither party will have to incur the
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---------------- LABOR CODE Pursuant to the Constitution 1992 of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam amended and supplemented under the Resolution No. 51/2001/QH10; The National Assembly promulgates the Labor Code. Chapter I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Scope of regulation The Labor Code specifies the labor standards; the rights, obligations and responsibilities of the employees, the employers, the labor representative organizations, the employer representative organizations in the labor relation and other
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