Assignment 1: Employment-At-Will Doctrine 5/4/14 * Summarize the employment-at-will doctrine and evaluate each of the eight (8) scenarios described by determining: The employment-at-will doctrine states that an employee can be fired or released from a company for cause or no cause at all. The employee also has the right to quit a job for any reason. Under this legislation, neither the employer or employee incurs “adverse legal consequences” (NCSL, 2014). There are three exceptions that
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Assignment: Assignment 1 Title: Employment At-Will Doctrine Student: David Nti-Berko Professor: Anne E. Dewey-Balzhiser Course: LEG 500 – Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Submission Date: 07/28/2013 Introduction Since the latter part of the nineteenth century, employment at-will has been the starting point in America employer-employee relationships (D. Mathews, 1975). Under the doctrine of employment at-will, an employer
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Pros of Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 1) Protection of whistleblowers * Section 806 attempts to encourage and protect whistleblowers by providing for anonymous whistleblowing, establishing criminal penalties for retaliation against whistle blowing, and clearly defining whistleblowing channels. * The rule states that a company cannot “discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or in any manner discriminate” against a whistleblower. * Any retaliation against a whistleblower can result
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine This paper will cover what legal rights employers have and whether they have the right to follow an employment-at-will doctrine. As the newly hired Chief Operating Officer (COO), I am faced with multiple personnel problems. There are eight different scenarios that I have to assess and determine what action to take against the employee, whether the employee can be fired, and what action will limit liability and impact on operations. I have also discovered that the
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Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World Wanda T. Diggs Professor William Stone Law, Ethics and Corporate Governance – LEG-500 March 4, 2014 Abstract Pharmaceutical companies are trusted to provide drugs that are fit for human use. Consumers rely on these drugs for their wellbeing. Drug costs are prohibitive for many in the United States and consumers want to be assured that the drugs they are prescribed accomplish their intended purposes. When pharmaceutical
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Professional Ethics Paper Carolyn Smith HCS/478 August 15, 2011 Ann-Marie Peckham Professional Ethics Paper The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship among professional values, ethics, and legal issues. A person’s personal values and ethics can influence their professional values and ethics in the workplace. Finding the right balance between personal and professional views in the workplace will help foster a successful career. This paper will cover relationships between legal
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CHAPTER 4 Privacy, Theft, and Whistle-Blowing CHAPTER 5 Termination Assignment Week 2 DeVry University HRM 320 1. What do you think are some of the factors in the modern workplace that contribute to a theft of time? How can those factors be managed? One of the major factors would be the use of the internet for personal use like Facebook, Twitter, or social network, or even their personal email accounts. Nowadays it’s so natural to go to any of these social media or emails accounts
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neglecting their duties, including: someone’s health and safety is in danger, damage to the environment, a criminal offence, the company isn’t obeying the law (like not having the right insurance), covering up wrongdoing. https://www.gov.uk/whistleblowing 2. What are the positive and negative aspects of whistle blowing based from the movie? Every organization desires honesty amongst their employees. Such an element allows for complete dedication to the organization's mission, and success.
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Uphold and promote equality, diversity and inclusion. Every service user should be treated as an individual which means that the service provider should not behave in the same way towards everyone because every person has come from different walks of life and they cannot be all helped in the exact same way, this is especially important for Psychologists where everybody’s issues form from various reasons and at different times in their lives. For instance, it will be illogical for a Psychologist
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no smoking policy. If employees that smoke want to smoke than they would have to walk off the property to smoke. This would also assist smokers from quitting. 2. What does the word Whistleblower mean (legally speaking)? Give an example of whistleblowing. Legally speaking, Whistleblower Protection Act
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