HRMG 5700 Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Service In late October 1991, Joseph Oncale was working for the Sundowner Offshore Service on a Chevron USA company, an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. He was employed as a roustabout on an eight man crew. Mr. Oncale on several occasions was forcibly subjected to sex-related, humiliating actions against him by his co-workers in the presence of the rest of the crew. Mr. Oncale was also sodomized with a bar of soap and was threatened with rape. Mr.
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professional standards. (l) External regulation of the market for audits . 2) SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ( Costa, J. A. 2004) vi) Summary of regulation (m) Often referred to as the "truth in securities" law, the Securities Act of 1933. (n) Require that investors receive financial and other significant information concerning securities being offered for public sale. (o) Prohibit deceit, misrepresentations,
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show about 35.8 per cent of the respondents had high level of tax knowledge, 41 per cent had medium tax knowledge and the remaining of 23.2 per cent had low level of basic tax knowledge. Findings also revealed that marital status had significantly affecting on tax compliance. However, the other two variables namely gender and age were insignificant. The present study provides an important insights for tax authorities to obtain knowledge and understanding of the behavioral attitudes of taxpayers toward
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outside its domestic boundaries (Ohio, USA). Now it has established plants all over the world, covering bases such as North America, South America, Europe and Asia. In terms of Japanese automakers, it has the largest share of plants as a ratio of total business outside its domestic boundaries (Dicken, 2007). North America, with Unit Sales of 1850 (thousands) is the largest Market of the company, noted for the year ended 31 March 2008. In 1963, the company set up its first international motorcycles production
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Business communication -Jac Richardson In this report I will be explaining the legal and ethical issues relating to the use of business information. Legal Issue | Impact on the business | Data Protection Act (1988)The Data Protection Act controls how your personal information is used by organisations, businesses or the government. Everyone who is responsible for using data has to follow strict rules called “data protection principles “ There is stronger legal protection for more sensitive
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to be done, and to ensure effective results they need employees prepare to handle each one. It is imperative for the company to create a structure with clearly defined roles and functions, where everybody work together to accomplish everything the business must do. To create a productive structure the organization has to identify the tasks to be accomplished in order to create the functions and delegate responsibilities among the employees. This structure is the tool that the company uses to create
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Different factors affecting sony company: “Analyse of the external environment could be assist by acronym PEST, which is standing for political, economical, sociocultural, and technological factors. It is also known as environmental scanning. PEST is useful tool to monitor and evaluate forces and factors affecting the company in long term” J Morrison (2002). Political/legal environmental: It is roles and regulation, which has been imposed by a stable government on the business. On the other hand
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more varieties/products as compared to The Cappuccino Express. Vincent should have plan to expand for marketing activities and varieties of the product related to coffee in order to maintain his current and future customers as well as the entire business. c) Quality ; Product and Employee Product factors such as quality of the coffee beans, quality and reliability of brewing equipment will have influence on the product final taste. The experience employees and capability in handling raw
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a. Adopt a company-wide Code of Ethics The company must develop its Code of Ethics. It should be the embodiment of what the business believes in with regards to the nature of the business, business practices, operations, people and its ethical responsiveness. In doing so, the company will always operate under the guidance of the code- legally and ethically; and all business decisions will be made within the principles of the code. b. Create an Ethics and Compliance Committee The company’s Ethics
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The Pledge of Allegiance that dates back all the way to 1892, states, “liberty and justice for all”; It’s ironic that we as a nation still struggle to swallow such a statement. It is not because a lack of placed law or governmental enforcement, but rather how the public decided to handle the situation. Today, the average U.S. colored American makes an income that is one-eighth of a typical white family income. On top of that, the number of jobless blacks is steadily increasing. These cases are beyond
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