...California State University, Fullerton Significance of New Wages and Labor Regulation The Relationship between Government, Business, and People Howard Liang POSC 100-07 Donald J. Matthewson April 21, 2016 Significance of New Wages and Labor Regulation New wages and labor regulation reveals a strong connection between government and business. In political science, government analysis political activity and behavior, Congress creates and passes laws, and other federal agencies make and enforces regulations. Since government and Federal play a major role, which ensures country’s safety and people’s survival quality, businesses become the primary goal to guarantee community growth. The following paper will focus on explaining how government, business, and people are connected by new wages and labor regulation in a political science view. Businesses are an important part of any state or country due to their contribution to the development of the state. There is a direct relationship between the performance of the business community and economic growth within a state. The business community does not exist within a vacuum, but operates within the framework of the state in which it operates. The government obviously appreciates the important role of the business community to the success of a country. However, every government must remember that its primary mandate is to protect the citizens. Governments thus have to ensure that businesses operate...
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...University Abstract Labor law arose due to the demand for workers to have better conditions, the right to organize, or, alternatively, the right to work without joining a labor union, and the simultaneous demands of employers to restrict the powers of workers' many organizations and to keep labor costs low. It is this low labor cost that some say led to the use of abuse of Child Labor. This paper explores how labor laws or employment laws surrounding child labor have changed. Although Labor Law covers a wide variety of individual laws, all of which focus and a paper can be written on each one, this paper will be focusing on Child Labor. After centuries of incidents, courts across the nation have found that business owners have now, more than ever, the duty to inspect, maintain, and in many cases, provide adequate training to employees in regards to child labor laws. The Child with Minimum Unfair Discrimination Let’s start with the basics: What is “Child Labor”? Child labor is the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom. This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and international organizations. Child labor was not seen as a problem throughout most of history, only becoming a disputed issue with the beginning of universal schooling and the concepts of laborers’ and children's rights. Child labor can be factory work, mining or quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents' business, having one's own small business (for example selling...
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...owned company and expands operations globally, this paper will focus on the employment and labor laws, along with legal considerations that influence company operations. It is important to keep in mind that XYZ uses a mix of manning methodologies throughout the company; a full time staff as the core of the company, while maximizing the use of contracted labor in the execution of projects. Employment Law Employment law is a broad category of law that encompasses all areas regarding employee/employer relationships except for the negotiation process and collective bargaining, which is covered by the narrower focused category of labor law. Employment laws consist of thousands of federal and state statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions that are designed to govern the rights and duties of employers and workers. The US Department of Labor (USDOL) reports that there are 180 federal laws alone managed by 28 different agencies within the department. (United States Department of Labor [USDOL], 2014) Employment laws are focused on providing a safe and fair work place for employees and employers, alike, and have their origins in the constitution. They were founded based on public outcry against oppressive practices during the industrial revolution. The first laws founded in the 1920s were focused on fair wages, compensation for injuries, a standard work week, and on eliminating child labor. In the 1960s and 70s, statutes focused on anti-discrimination and unsafe work environments...
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...organization, as well as the associated business consequences. The readings focus on workers’ compensation, occupational safety, and other worker protection laws, with a specific attention to the Family and Medical Leave Act. This week also covers the collective bargaining agreements and labor law, as well as several laws and decisions a company must make regarding these labor law issues. In addition, you examine equal opportunity in employment and Title VII, including what comprises this significant law. You review regulatory laws, environmental protection and global warning, as well as antitrust laws and unfair trade practices. The readings focus on introductory concepts and the laws that support these concepts. Employment and Regulatory Risk OBJECTIVE: Differentiate between types of employment relationships and the associated legal considerations. Resources: Ch. 31 & 32 of Business Law: Legal Environment, Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and International Issues Content • Ch. 31: Employment, Worker Protection, and Immigration Laws o Introduction to Employment, Worker Protection, and Immigration Laws o Worker’s Compensation • Case 31.1 Workers’ Compensation: Medrano v. Marshall Electrical Contracting Inc. o Occupational Safety • Ethics Spotlight: Company Violates OSHA’s Safety Rule o Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) • Ethics Spotlight: Fair Labor Standards Act Pay Violation • Ethics...
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...| LABOR RELATIONSBYGERALD HODGESLABOR RELATIONS FALB10 Sec ADEVRY UNIVERSITY14 JAN 20111. From the beginning labor relations has an issue for the United States. Labor Relations is the area that organizations have to deal with between employees and management. Union leaders can use to minimize conflicts between employers and employees (such as strikes) and seek agreements. Unions are organizations formed for the purpose of representing their members' such as employees to deal with their issues. In this paper, I will identify how unions and labor relations impact organizations. I have interview Clinton Harris a labor officer for his organization from Computer company in Virginia. He is in the Nation guard and is currently deployed here with me in Afghanistan. The typical functions of Clinton Harris the labor officer are to manage labor relations program of organization. He analyzes collective bargaining agreement to make sure both sides are fair in terms wages, hours of work, work environment, and health care by contracts. | Clinton Harris advice management about labor relation laws and also interpretation of labor relations policies and practices within the organization. He prepares reports, using records of actions taken concerning grievances, and identifies problem areas. He also monitors implementation of policies concerning wages, hours, and working conditions, to ensure compliance with terms of labor contract. Clint has to research information about additional...
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...Business Ethics: Apple Apple today is continuing to be a leader in the technological field, with its new innovations of various electronics, along with its ability to make other competitors want to follow in their shoes. With over 408 retail stores in 14 different countries, a company this large is forced to have certain morals and social responsibilities in order to make sure they are functioning as a whole and achieving that one common goal specified by the corporation (Forbes.com). Apple’s ethics recently though have came into question, through the attacks that they are facing regarding work within Chinese factories to produce their products and the child labor laws that they are breaking to make that one iPhone or MacBook. Though, one might argue that Apple has a stronger bond and promise with its consumers because they are the ones providing the profit rather than those that they employ within the manufacturing Countries of their products like China. I believe though that treating each person with respect and acting ethical has its advantages in the long run even if that iPhone they are making might be made in six hours instead of four. In addition, the government has began to crack down on social responsibilities of corporations, helping with societies overall perception of large corporations, such as Apple, promoting the idea that there is more to business than just making a profit and being at the top of your industry. The ethical issues at hand that I will be investigating...
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...competing within the national boundaries, also compete for business in the global market. There is a need for high productivity at lower costs and employers compete through a myriad of situations such as hiring preferences, compensation, promotions or layoffs (Prempeh, 2013). Many factors affect a company’s decision to expand its business and its ability to succeed internationally. An in-depth analysis of overseas political and legal environments, as well as corporate and ethical policies must be examined prior to negotiations occurring in the global business market. Each country have different laws addressing the treatment of employees in the workplace. Standards that may be unethical in the United States may prove to be an opportunity for laborers in other countries, making it more difficult to establish and build business relations. This paper will describe and analyze employment and labor laws in the domestic and international markets, and the impact those laws may have on the XYZ Construction Company. Employment and labor law initially arose out of the desire to protect the employee from unethical and immoral practices in the workplace and combat preferential and bias treatment towards specific groups of people. The establishment of the employment and labor laws was set in place to provide redemption and equality for employees. There are four categories dealing with employment law. Employment at will is a contract of employment for...
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...Labor law in Spain. Amira Hassanaly BLAW 225 Labor law in Spain. Amira Hassanaly BLAW 225 Outline I. Introduction II. Employment contract a) Permanent contract or fixed contract b) Temporary contract c) Training contract d) Work experience contract e) Part time contract III. Working Conditions a) Salary b) Working time c) Rest time d) Overtime e) Working day and family f) Holidays and leaves g) Unpaid leaves h) Maternity and paternity leave i) Dismissal IV. Employee’s rights V. Social Securities VI. Unions VII. Conclusion I. Introduction As is the case almost in all European countries, Spanish labor law is very understandable and ensure protection for employees. According to the definition labor law is a body of law that govern the employer-employee relation, including employment contract. The relationship between employer and employee is more than the exchange of labor for money it is also covers workplace rights and a large group of regulation on issues such as protection from discrimination, wages hours and health and safety. Labor law also deals with individual and collective relationships between employees and employers. The economic crisis of 2008 showed that the Spanish labor model was not working out. The labor legislation change in 2012 in order to be more suitable in a time of crisis within the labor market, the legislation modifies the institutional...
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...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 passed in recent years. It was the product of a series of lengthy consultations that took place between the state and social, domestic as well as foreign actors affected by it. Many entrepreneurs see the new law as a threat to their businesses in China. Chinese new Labor Contract Law is the most significant reform to the law of employment relations in more than a decade. Its final form emerged following highly contentious debates over the terms of earlier drafts- debates involving not only a range of Chinese actors, but also international business lobbyists and labor organizations. The Law was enacted represents a compromise between the competing demands of these many interest groups. This article briefly surveys the reasons for the enactment of the Labor Contract Law, the polarized drafting process, and the key matters it addresses. The assessment presented is that the Law is, overall, a necessary and beneficial contribution to the regulation of work in China. 2. The Need For the Labor Contract Law Chinese foundational law regulating the labor market is the Labor Law of...
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...International Business Law Final Assignment – ISEG Group 1A Alfred Boudet 26th of November 2012 The Case Of Plant Relocation In this case I am working in Electrocorp, as the Chief Executive of the company. Electrocorp is an electronics company manufacturing onboard computer components for automobile. The company is facing an important choice to do. It can make more money for shareholders in relocating plants to a country with lower labor costs, less strict environmental regulations. Until now, all our plants are implanted in United States and until recently the company was in good economical health. But we face both ethical and economical problems. First of all, the production costs increased during the few last years further to the action of unions representing employees in the company waged successful strikes in order to increase salary and benefits. Today the salary and benefits package are about $15 per hour, which is very high in our industry, but it is the labor cost in United States. Secondly, some dangerous products are used in the company such the using of complex hydrocarbon solvents to clean the chips and some of these solvents are carcinogens and have to be handled with a high prudency. To avoid major problems there is some strict safety regulations inside the plants, which cost time and money. These safety regulations increase the cost of production...
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...Micro- and micro- economic factors and legal considerations Firms operate their business in climate of dynamic business environment and ongoing process, which is not steady due to many factors that influence their operational activities of business. The economics factors, and legal factors are among the very important factors that affect the economy as in the whole and the business in particular. To operate a business successfully in the dynamic environment and to follow the changes of the market, the broad of directors of ABC Complete Kitchens, Inc., should include economic and legal consideration in operations plan, to have reliable market conditions and avoid the product liability. However, the economic factors can be described as the external or internal factors that impact the financial status of the business such as labor costs, taxation, and interest rate etc. Where in the other hand, legal factors are the laws and rules that regulate the business to behave in the right way such organizational law, employment law, contract law, and securities law etc. This memorandum will describe and a will analyze the macro- and micro- economics factors that could directly or indirectly affect ABC Complete Kitchen, Inc. operations, including the legal considerations that should be considered by the management of the plant. Economic factors Macroeconomic factors Companies on their business operation are affected internally and externally. As firm faces the competition from...
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...………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. MARK : COMMENT : ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. The labor laws in Zimbabwe especially those governing the termination of employment in the Act Chapter 28:01 has been identified as the major cause of the country to slide down a greasy pole of paradigmatic economic recovery. These laws have been described by the Minister of Finance Mr. T endai Biti as ‘too rigid suffocating to business and inimical to economic recovery and development “and because of this he calls for an urgent change of these hostile laws. They are detrimental to the economy because of a wide range of reasons. The reasons are that these are strict procedures to be followed in retrenching employees from retrenchment in section 12d,loss of finance during the...
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...Employment Law HRL404 Abstract This paper will provide an overview of the State and Federal regulations in employment and discuss relevant employment regulations. The findings will explain on how in today work environments that the business climate of companies seem to subject to a wide variety of laws and regulations. With these components in dealing with the regulated in benefits for employees that has become a particularly crucial issue in the past several years. State and Federal regulations play a large role in how a company treats its employees while at work. These laws ensure that those workers that report in dealing with the wrong doing of their employees are not discriminated. In concluding the State and Federal government have made sure that protection to the interest of the workers to carrying out their duties in a prudent manner and refrain from conflict of interest transactions specifically prohibited by law. The enforcement of the federal and the state minimum wage law to be enforced in the working field. The Federal Government has set up specific laws that apply to the regulation of unions and allows workers to join unions. The National Labor Relations Act allows the workers the option of joining an association. The government established the National Labor Relations Board for this purpose. The federal government has passed acts like the Labor-Management Relations Act and the Labor Management...
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...was a internal audit that was conducted on Apple, they found that 106 children were working at more than 10 factories creating Apple products in the past year alone according to The Guardian. (n.d.). Hiring children means that the child labor laws are being violated. Also this is morally wrong and not for the greater good of the people. Apple conducted an investigation on it's suppliers. The result of that investigation was unexpected. They found out that children were being recruited using fake identity papers. Child labor is obvious because of the harsh working conditions provided by Apple. Most of the children worked for Chinese companies that made supplies for apple. The children were under the age of 16; they employed about 74 children out of the 106 total according to The Guardian. (n.d.). Most of the cases are from 2013, and total there have been 70 companies in Apple's supply chain that have employed children according to The Guardian. (n.d.). There has been a host of other events happening when the whistle was blown so to speak. There have been cases of workers committing suicide, and also deadly explosions at some of the supply chains. This is relevant because workers slowly began to figure out that children were being used for labor, and these were some of the consequences. The children had to lift heavy equipment, and some of them were subject to pregnancy tests as well. If the children got into trouble while working they would be punished by having their pay checks...
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...…………..…………..……………….……………… 10 Labor Standards in Germany …………………………………………………………... 12 Labor Standards in China ………………………………………………………...…..... 19 Comparative Analysis ………...…………………........…………….……..……....…… 25 Conclusion ………………………......……………………………….……....………… 29 References …………………………...………..……………………………….……….. 31 Appendix A …………………………...………..……………………………...……….. 35 Appendix B …………………………...………..……………………………...……….. 36 Appendix C …………………………...………..……………………………...……….. 37 Appendix D …………………………...………..……………………………...……….. 38 Appendix E …………………………...………..……………………………...……….. 39 Executive Summary As a result of systemic changes in the economy over the last two decades, the world of work has radically changed in eastern European and Asian countries. Transition reforms have led to rapid structural shifts in the economy: China has become a focal point for much of the insecurity that globalization has produced: for the past two decades China has experienced explosive economic growth that has attracted jobs and capital from around the world (Feng, 2007). No other industrializing country has ever attracted jobs at both the high and low ends of the production chain. From basic level assembly work to the upper tiers of industry and services, China is setting the global norm for working standards around the world. Workers in rich and poor countries alike feel the effect of China as global corporations move to China to lower labor costs and use the threat of...
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