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In 2001, Congress overturned the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) extensive ergonomics rules that required virtually all employers to create programs to protect employees against repetitive stress disorders. In your opinion, was this the right or wrong thing to do? Explain your answer/reasoning.
Define employment-at-will doctrine and discuss how wrongful discharge, just cause, and due process are significant to this concept.
Since the advent of polling, political scientists have found that Americans don’t know much about the details of political issues or even the names of many leading politicians. Education is one distinguishing factor that separates the politically sophisticated from the unsophisticated, but, since education levels have increased over the last half-century, why hasn’t Americans’ knowledge of politics increased? How does democracy survive given such low levels of political knowledge among Americans over time?
Can democracy be sustained when so few people are involved in the political system? Voter turnout in a local election can run less than 10 percent, yet local governments are the ones that affect people more closely on a daily basis. Why do more people not vote in America? Explain.
Since the advent of polling, political scientists have found that Americans don’t know much about the details of political issues or even the names of many leading politicians. Education is one distinguishing factor that separates the politically sophisticated from the unsophisticated, but, since education levels have increased over the last half-century, why hasn’t Americans’ knowledge of politics increased? How does democracy survive given such low levels of political knowledge among Americans over time?
Can democracy be sustained when so few people are involved in the political system? Voter turnout in a local election can run less than 10 percent, yet local governments are the ones that affect people more closely on a daily basis. Why do more people not vote in America? Explain.
Discuss the following:
Determine and identify the law in your home state as to Worker’s Compensation and who is entitled to it. Then, provide what the company’s options are and whether Leo qualifies for workers’ compensation due to his health issues and high blood pressure. Analyze the key legal and ethical issues faced by you, the employer and what some of the arguments would be on both sides if Leo applies for worker’s compensation.
Explain the Direct Threat defense pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act and whether the employer can fire Leo using the defense.
Summarize your understanding of Unions and some of the key issues that are important to both employees and employers today.
Discuss the following:
Determine and identify the law in your home state as to Worker’s Compensation and who is entitled to it. Then, provide what the company’s options are and whether Leo qualifies for workers’ compensation due to his health issues and high blood pressure. Analyze the key legal and ethical issues faced by you, the employer and what some of the arguments would be on both sides if Leo applies for worker’s compensation.
Explain the Direct Threat defense pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act and whether the employer can fire Leo using the defense.
Summarize your understanding of Unions and some of the key issues that are important to both employees and employers today.
Imagine a competitive business setting in which you are trying to get promoted. You find out that your direct competition for the promotion has been downgrading your work performance and commitment to the company to your supervisors. Within this context, identify the type of aggression and potential motivation for the aggression your coworker exhibited. Then, explain whether you view your coworker’s actions as acceptable. How would your perception of acceptability change if you considered the coworker as a male versus a female? Why might a change in perception occur (even if yours would not)?
Assume that a fatality occurred at your facility one month prior to the OSHA inspection. Review the citations and penalties that were assessed to your facility, and respond to the following questions:
Which of the citations could be referred to the U.S. DOJ for criminal proceedings?
What conditions would have to be met before the citations could be referred for criminal proceedings?
Which individuals working at your facility could face criminal charges under the act?
What would be the maximum prison sentence and fines that any individual would face?
What would be the maximum fine that the company would face?
If you were facing criminal charges under the act, what would be your best defense?
How could you involve the OSHRC in the criminal case(s)?
Assume that a fatality occurred at your facility one month prior to the OSHA inspection. Review the citations and penalties that were assessed to your facility, and respond to the following questions:
Which of the citations could be referred to the U.S. DOJ for criminal proceedings?
What conditions would have to be met before the citations could be referred for criminal proceedings?
Which individuals working at your facility could face criminal charges under the act?
What would be the maximum prison sentence and fines that any individual would face?
What would be the maximum fine that the company would face?
If you were facing criminal charges under the act, what would be your best defense?
How could you involve the OSHRC in the criminal case(s)?
declared March 24, 2021 was declared Equal Payday. Over the years, women with the same or higher qualifications have been doing the same jobs as men, but they have been continually been paid less than men.
The first Equal Pay Act was signed into law in 1963. The second, the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act (LLEPA), was signed into law by the Obama administration in 2009.
Identify and explain 2 sources/causes of the gender pay gap.
Has the combination of these laws made any difference in narrowing the gender pay gap?
Is addressing the gender pay gap best left in the hands of the capitalists or in the hands of politicians? Pick one. Justify and support your rationale.
Identify 2 underlying reasons why pay equity has been illusive in the U.S. since the 1960’s.
Propose 2 concrete solutions to address the gender pay gap in the U.S
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