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
Words: 687 - Pages: 3
& Affordable Care Act (PPACA) The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also know as Affordable Care Act, is a law that was brought into effect to improve the way of the Health care system as well as Medicare and Medicaid. Which was signed in March 2010 by President Barack Obama. This law allow the uninsured and middle class workers to be able to afford health coverage. It also allows existing insurance holders to be able to keep their plans. This act consist of ten amendments
Words: 781 - Pages: 4
Rebel Sport Media Plan: • Identifying the Problem/Opportunity: Need to train new sales’ team staff member with online training using Internet as the communication media • Decision Criteria: reach the completion of 20 fully trained staff members every month, overall cost $30 000/Month. • Prioritized Decision Criteria: Effective training rater than duration • Consideration of Alternatives: If training is not conclusive for the trainee, restart and relocate staff members across the shops
Words: 847 - Pages: 4
Detroit November 21, 2010 Introduction The legal process involving employment law has various branches depending on the type of employment, area, specialty, and class of employer and employee. “The main body of employment discrimination laws consists of federal and state statutes. The United States Constitution and some state constitutions provide additional protection when the employer is a governmental body or the government has taken significant steps to foster the discriminatory
Words: 1251 - Pages: 6
area of responsibility. The Equality Act 2010 was brought in as one single act to make the law simpler and easier to understand, the act covers nine protected characteristics, which cannot be used as a reason to treat someone unfairly, every person has one or more of the protected characteristics, so the act protects everyone against unfair treatment, the protected characteristics are, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief
Words: 1671 - Pages: 7
be let go. In all of the scenarios there is a possible discrimination charge by the employee against the organization, so it must be handled in a certain matter, minimizing the damage to the organization. The decision The players are selected, and the HR department must analyze the outcomes each one of them brings to the table. The first employee is gay, and has been having problems with a fellow employee, which will bring a discrimination conflict about sexual orientation. The organization must
Words: 1373 - Pages: 6
legal problems (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell 2009, p. 212). Businesses should not discriminate against employees on the basis of gender. Discrimination refers to ‘the making of a difference in particular cases, as in favour of or against a person or thing, especially when arising from prejudice based on race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age etc’ (Discrimination 2011). Virgin Blue allegedly discriminated against Leonie Vandeven by forcing her to take a redundancy package after she confirmed that she
Words: 4129 - Pages: 17
Women’s Reproductive Health Stephanie Bucher COMM/215 January 10, 2015 Linda Camp In March of 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Obama. This federal law intended to make health insurance more affordable and more readily accessible to citizens and legal residents of the United States. (Salganicoff, 2014). The Affordable Care Act benefits all of the citizens of the United States, and it has been especially beneficial to women's health issues. It has been said
Words: 1150 - Pages: 5
ago, and unfortunately is still prevalent today. This epidemic is discrimination, and it is alive and well in all aspects of our lives. Discrimination comes in different forms and types. When most people think of discrimination, think of race discrimination; however, discrimination comes in many different forms such as age, gender, sexual, sex, religious, pregnancy, disability, and retaliation discrimination. Some form of discrimination happens every day, and not every employee has the proper information
Words: 1007 - Pages: 5
Gender stereotypes and discrimination in the workplace Introduction Organisations need to participation of diversity gender in workplace, which is very necessary, whereas, still have gender stereotypes and gender discrimination in the workplace. Stereotype refers to individual or specific types of people who have stationary characteristic when people think. As Michael P. (2001) said, stereotypes like a bias when people always accustomed to the mechanical classification to a specific person as
Words: 839 - Pages: 4
