...Melinda Roberson GM520 Week 2 Homework I am choosing to write my paper on the Hours of Service of Drivers, Proposed Rule, 75 FR 82170, December 29, 2010. The administrative agency which controls the regulation is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). This proposal interests me because when I was in middle school my cousin was hit by a driver which ended her life. After extensive investigation they found that the driver fell asleep behind the wheel due to him working two days straight. This proposal will not affect me or the business in which I am working in but it will give me peace of mind if passed because no one should have to lose their loved one in such a tragic way. The proposal is to help promote safety and to protect driver health, FMCSA proposes to revise the regulations for hours of service for drivers of property-carrying commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). To achieve these goals, the proposed rule would provide flexibility for drivers to take breaks when needed and would reduce safety and health risks associated with long hours. The proposed rule would make seven changes from current requirements. The proposed rule would make seven changes from current requirements. First, the proposed rule would limit drivers to either 10 or 11 hours of driving time following a period of at least 10 consecutive hours off duty; on the basis of all relevant considerations, FMCSA currently favors a 10-hour limit, but its ultimate decision will include a careful...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Services The proposal interests me because it deals with businesses who voluntary want their plants inspected against USDA guidelines for diaries. This is interesting because I would think each dairy would be required to be inspected and not voluntary. Being that the fee may rise and the inspection is voluntary then most likely those businesses will pass the cost onto consumers. This could potentially affect my clients who have children and need dairy products to meet their babies’ daily needs. I hope to safely assume all dairies would want to be inspected and graded according to USDA guidelines in the event something of bad product being introduced to the public. 2. Describe the proposal/change. The proposal increases the fee for business who wants their dairy plants inspected against USDA inspections and grading services. These fees were last adjusted in 2006. According to the regulation, “despite the adoption of technologies that have improved services, additional changes in operations that enhanced efficiencies, and reduced employee numbers, increases in salaries, technology investments, and general inflation have more than offset savings resulting in the...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520 Brad Booth 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – I am a firearms dealer and wonder how the Firearm regulation will affect my sale of guns. This will affect me who I can sell guns to and the cost of background checks. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The change will require people to do a more extensive background check and depending on the background it will disqualify them on getting a weapon and affect how many guns I can sell. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) I wish to have them reconsider this new rule by at least putting some additional provisions in place to protect the privacy...
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...Assignment CH10, pg.262, Q 1,4,6,11,18 1. Warehouses emphasize the storage of products, and their primary purpose is to maximize the usage of available storage space. Distribution centers emphasize the rapid movement of products through a facility, and they attempt to maximize the throughput. 4. Cross-docking is a process where a product is received in a facility, occasionally married with product going to the same destination, then shipped at the earliest opportunity, without going into long-term storage. This could affect warehousing design as cross-docking is more desirable by allowing more receiving and outgoing delivery doors, or a bigger floor space to handle more product movements. 6. The advantages of private warehousing are: cost is spread over more units of inventory, more control over storage needs, control over product placement within the facility, and access to product whenever the company needs. A few disadvantages are: initial cost is very high, fluctuating demand means loss of productive space, high interest rates cause more cost for financing, and a reduction in the company’s flexibility in relation to their external environment. 11. The trade-off between order-picking versus stock-replenishing is: keeping both teams working on the same floor at the same time will save on managerial personnel being needed, it will also cause congestion. 18. To start with, hazardous materials means that enhanced security focusing on people, facilities, and processes must...
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...Question #1: Please read Problem 11 about credit cards and the kinds of debt being incurred by consumers these days, and answer the following questions: Are banks acting in a responsible fashion with their solicitations of consumers for credit cards and increases in credit card lines? I believe that the banks are not acting in a responsible fashion with their solicitation of consumers for credit cards and credit card lines. As mentioned in the article, the banks are advertising “promotions of credit card and debt to increase limits” in an attempt to gather additional consumers. I think by advertising these credit cards to college and high school students, and then providing them with higher credit limits and promotions, the banks are aiming to increase the number of irresponsible spenders in today’s society to make money. What responsibility do consumers have with regard to credit card debt? Consumers are held completely liable for credit card debt they have incurred. The consumer had the choice to use or not use the card and should be held responsible for the actual use. What disclosure rules apply in banks’ solicitations of credit card customers? In banks’ solicitation of credit card customers, the disclosures required sent out to the customer must have the following information: (i) what interest charge and APR for the charges on the credit card, (ii) when the bills will be sent, (iii) what to do about questions on the bills, and (iv) when payments...
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...Week 2 Homework Template Please use this template to submit your homework for Week 2. It will help ensure that you do not miss any of the questions. You can use as much space as you need to for each of your answers by using the “insert” function in Word. Do not delete the questions from the template. Simply insert your responses. Your assignment should be about 2 pages long (this includes the space my questions take up). Remember to cite any sources used in answering any of the questions. Please include your first and last name in the title of the Word Document when you submit it as an attachment to the Dropbox. Your assignment is due by Sunday, end of Week 2, 11:59 p.m. (MT). It is the student's responsibility to check to see that the attached files are actually in the Dropbox. Week 2 TCO B Homework: Using the internet, go to the Regulations.gov website to find a proposed regulation. Do NOT go to the website of the federal administrative agency itself as it is easy to become confused and you may end up selecting an item that is not a proposed regulation. Be careful not to choose a piece of legislation. Also, please do not use a foreign regulation for this assignment as you will not be able to answer all of the questions for this assignment and would therefore lose points. For this assignment, you must find a regulation proposed by an administrative agency. If you are unable to answer all 5 of the questions if the template, you probably have not found a proposed regulation...
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...1. TCO F. Men2Wimmin (M2W) sends a cease and desist letter to Clean Clothes (CC) demanding CC stop using M2W’s tagline, which is registered with the Trademark Office. Clean Clothes responds, stating that (a) CC’s tagline is different enough as not to violate the trademark, (b) CC didn’t know about M2W’s tagline so they couldn’t have copied it, and (c) Men2Wimmin has no damages and therefore can’t sue Clean Clothes. Analyze the case for Men2Wimmin, including the elements of any case they have, and explaining any defenses that Clean Clothes might raise against them. What damages can they request, and do you think they will get them? Why or why not? 14a8b106 It is discovered that 2 weeks before the Ellen show, she had sold $2 million in JOSB stock (at a gain of about $2,200). The morning after her show, Ellen sold JOSB short (which means she was betting the stock price would go down), and she made another $210,000 in the next week on that trade. The swing in the price was not directly tied to her comments but was suspected to be a result of a recall JOSB made on their entire line of men's black and brown dress slacks when it was discovered that they had been sewn together with white thread. Ellen's previous trading activity shows that she made it a normal practice to “vigorously trade” the stock of any company with which she did business. A review of her trading activity for the past year showed that she had bought and sold JOSB stock 25 different times, including short sales...
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...RE: Wolfowitz and Riza at the Wold Bank Facts of the case are that Wolfowitz and Riza were together every step of the way. They were in a relationship before he joined the Wold Bank. Universal Banking Laws suggest that people in high ranking positions cannot have their relatives or spouses in the same company as this increases the risk to the organisation. Wolfowitz wanted to have his cake and eat it too In the Board Room and in the Bedroom. He decided to come out clean in the beginning and disclose of his relationship with Ms Riza, just to see what the board would suggest. The board suggested that he transfer Ms Riza to a position outside his influence. Wolfowitz directed the VP - HR to transfer Ms Riza, increase her salary to an amount above and beyond those of others employees and even seeing to it that the terms of her position be changed after he was no longer with the organisation (Planning and Intent). This was highly unethical for Wolfowitz to do, for HR to comply and for Ms Riza to accept. This is an ethical offence only in countries that have Laws against them and the Resources to enforce them. But in the REAL world and thats how most Corporate Big wigs and Government officials Roll...... Ref:http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-04-14/us/27870120_1_shaha-riza-bank-employees-riza-affair http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-454960/White-House-defends-Wolfowitz-He-ousted.html http://gulfnews.com/business/banking/world-bank-promises-quick-action-on-wolfowitz-scandal-1...
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...Cassandra Francis 11/05/2011 HUMN445 Group B: 1. An office worker had a record of frequent absence. He used all his vacation and sick leave days and frequently requested additional leave without pay. His supervisor and co-workers expressed great frustration because his absenteeism caused bottlenecks in paperwork, created low morale in the office, and required others to do his work in addition to their own. On the other hand, he felt he was entitled to take his earned time and additional time off without pay. Was he right? I think that the morality of the point is the office worker has the duty and obligation to be at work on time. When he was hired I am sure that absence was discussed but if they let him have that many absences they can’t fault anyone but themselves. “In the normative sense, morality should never be overridden, that is, no one should ever violate a moral prohibition or requirement for non-moral considerations.” I think that the worker was only thinking about himself and he really didn’t care about the job. It was not fair that the other workers had to always pick up his slack. I don’t think that he was considering what others were feeling and that is not a good co-worker. I don’t blame him all the way because the job let him continue to be absent and they continued to give him days off. He should have been fired or replaced. I think that St Augustine would have fired him and let him learn the consequences because Augustine feels that we learn from life...
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...Comment :1 Which warranties, if any, has the manufacturer of the air conditioner breached? For a manufacturer to be liable for consequential damages caused by a breach of warranty, the consequential damages must be foreseeable to the manufacturer. The book states: The most common types of product liability cases are based on the following types of defects: 1 Design defects A product with a faulty design exposes its users to unnecessary risks, and products must be designed with all foreseeable uses in mind. Cars must be designed in view of the probability of accidents. To make the best possible case in the event of product liability suit, it is helpful for the manufacturer to have complied with all federal and state regulations on the product. It is also helpful if the manufacturer has used the latest technology and designs available within the industry and has met industry standards in designing its product. 2. Dangers of use due to lack of warnings or unclear use instructions Manufacturers have a duty to warn buyers of a foreseeable dangerous use of a product that the buyers are not likely to realize is dangerous. They also have a duty to supplement the warnings. Manufacturers must also give adequate instructions to buyers on the proper use of the product. 3. Errors in manufacturing, handling or packaging of the product. The breach of duty is the most difficult form of negligence to prove. The large number of handlers in the process of manufacturing and packaging a...
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...Week 2 GM520 - Assignment 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Defense ACTION: Proposed rule :: Smoking Cessation Program under TRICARE This will affect me as most of my friends/neighbors/relatives do smoke and I am always being a passive smoker which is affecting my health badly. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal helps smokers to quit smoking under TRICARE coverage. Which would help common people with wider access and ways to quit smoking. The proposed rule should expand the phone access & face-face interaction at least to the military personnel internationally in the initial phase also. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520. By Sam Jhonson 1. The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve Board was seeking amendments to the Risk-Based Pricing Rule that would require creditors, as of July 21, 2011. I am starting my own business so this interests me as to how the credit scores are reported to the consumers. 2. The proposal makes the creditors to disclose the credit score information to the consumers when a credit score is used in setting or adjusting credit terms. Also consumers who receive the notice can obtain a free credit report to check the report’s accuracy. As an alternative to providing the notice, the Rule permits creditors to provide credit applicants with a free credit score and information about their score. 3. The agencies should provide additional information related to credit scores to the risk-based pricing notices. Specifically, the risk-based pricing notice include an explanation that the consumer does not have a single credit score, and that the credit score may vary with the consumer reporting agency and a particular credit product for which the consumer applied. Most consumers need this information to help them understand why they are receiving a particular score that may not be the same as a FICO score. 4. All the comments must be received by 04/14/10 and comments on he Paperwork Reduction Act analysis set forth in Section III.A. of this Federal Register notice must be received on or before May 16, 2011. 5. a. 1. Go to the Hearing...
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...The World Bank ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Week 1: Business Ethics and International Responsibility - Discussion This week's graded topics relate to the following Terminal Course Objectives (TCOs): A | Given an organizational requirement to conform business practices to both the law and best ethical practices, apply appropriate ethical theories to shape a business decision. | I | Given specified circumstances of a business decision to expand to international markets, determine what international legal requirements or regulatory controls apply. | | Click on the links in the "Topics" section to view the discussion topics. Then, click "Respond" to add your thoughts to the discussion thread. | Topics | Introductions (not graded, but required) | The World Bank Situation (graded) | Ethics and Patent Rights Post 9/11 (graded) | Q & A Forum (not graded) | | The World Bank Situation (graded) | Class, please read Chapter 2, problem 5 from the Jennings text, p. 72. This week, we will discuss the Wolfowitz situation at the World Bank. Consider the questions at the end of the problem as you make comments in the threads this week. What are the ethics here? Was Wolfowitz trying to do the right thing? Does that make a difference ethically? Throughout the week, I will bring in further questions. Be sure to read the lecture and the international ethics article stated in your reading for the week as well. Rather...
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...Week 1: Business Ethics and International Responsibility - Discussion The World Bank Situation (graded) Class, please read Chapter 2, problem 5 from the Jennings text, p. 72. This week, we will discuss the Wolfowitz situation at the World Bank. Consider the questions at the end of the problem as you make comments in the threads this week. What are the ethics here? Was Wolfowitz trying to do the right thing? Does that make a difference ethically? Throughout the week, I will bring in further questions. Be sure to read the lecture and the international ethics article stated in your reading for the week as well. Responses Response Author Date/Time Wolfowitz and Riza Parvez Rana 4/30/2012 8:06:35 PM Wolfowitz has acknowledged his direct role in the job transfer and pay raise for his longtime companion, who worked in the bank's Middle East department, to avoid supervising her. He has said that he did so only at the direction of the ethics committee. Wolfowitz and Shaha Riza knew what they were doing; it was neither an accident or an oversight, and she was complicit in a raise or series of raises she did not earn legitimately.And does anyone think Wolfowitz and or Riza should be made to repay all her raise money? RE: Wolfowitz and Riza Stephanie Garrigan 5/4/2012 11:15:26 AM By Wolfowitz's disclosure to the board of his relationship with Ms. Riza it did in effect protected Ms. Riza'sfuture whether she was a employee or not. The board then...
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...Darlene Couture Lgl, Poli, Ethcl Dimns of Busn Professor: Louis Pearsall 01/19/2013 HB119 Personal Injury Protection (PIP) for Auto Insurance Fraud General Bill by Economic Affairs Committee and Insurance & Banking Subcommittee and Boyd (CO-SPONSORS) Albritton; Broxson; Costello; Horner; Tobia; Wood | Motor Vehicle Personal Injury Protection Insurance: Revises conditions for completing long-form traffic crash report; provides that certain entities exempt from licensure as health care clinic must nonetheless be licensed in order to receive reimbursement for provision of PIP benefits; requires that application for licensure, or exemption from licensure, as health care clinic include statement regarding insurance fraud; specifies additional unfair claim settlement practice; authorizes Division of Insurance Fraud of DFS to establish direct-support organization for purpose of prosecuting, investigating, & preventing motor vehicle insurance fraud; specifies effects of Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault Law. | Effective Date: July 1, 2012 | Last Event: Chapter No. 2012-197; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1101 (Ch. 2012-151) on Sunday, May 06, 2012 8:42 PM | Date Available for Final Passage: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:19 PMhttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=47180 | 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation...
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