...case analysis about the supreme court case Automobiles Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc. based on the legal documents, such as the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, and Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1987. This case is focus on the primary prospective of the Pregnancy Discrimination between the employers and employees, providing the elaborate and personal comprehension of this case issues, and then describes the inspiration refined from this case. Contents 1.Introduction 2 2. Case analysis 3 2.1 The procedure of the case receiving 3 2.2The related legal document analysis 5 2.2.1 The Civil Right Act of 1964 (Title VII) 5 2.2.2 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 7 2.3 The causation analysis of the supreme court’s decisions based on personal comprehension 8 3. The inspiration of the case 10 4. Conclusion 11 Reference 11 Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc, 499U.S.187 (1991) 1.Introduction Presently, the employment relationship is becoming a hot-button topic among the public, protecting the employees’ legitimate interest detailed reform and implementation in the field of the law. This supreme court case is generally about the equal employment relationship between the employers and employees. It happens between the Automobile workers and the Johnson Controls, Inc. Johnson Controls, Inc is an American company offering the products...
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...skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions” (The Equal Pay Act of 1963, n.d.). President Kennedy signed the EPA act in 1963 and establishes an important step in protecting women’s right in working field. In my opinion, there is no doubt that women are equal to men for getting jobs and deserve the same amount of salary if they are under same level of working environment. Hence, it is important for the organization to know this law when designing the internal alignment piece of their compensation program. As I learned in the first week, the compensation program is one of the most significant tools organizations could influence their employees (Milkovich, Newman& Gerhart, 2011, p.1). Whether it is well designed or not is able to determine the success or failure of the organization. In addition, Milkovich, Newman& Gerhart further stated that, “internal alignment refers to the pay relationships among different jobs/skills/competencies within a single organization” (Milkovich, Newman& Gerhart, 2011, p. 69). Even though the internal alignment helps maintain the internal pay structure of the organization, it could not protect those people who are suffering with sex discrimination in work place. It is really important for employees to understand their rights for equal pay. For example, Wal-Mart, which is one of the world famous companies in United Stated. It has the history of unfair treatment to their female employees....
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...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 2/21/2015 Providing a place of employment has lead to numerous benefits for employers and employees. When having a diversity of people working for a company, different types of personalities intermingle with each other on a day – to – day basis. Even though having a diverse group of people coexist in the workforce can serve a huge benefit to the company, it can also lead to problems amongst coworkers. In order to make sure everyone is treated fairly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was created to enforce federal regulations for equality in the workforce (smallbusiness). The EEOC pursues complaints about hiring or firing based off of certain factors such as, race, religion, age, origin, sex, etc. In addition to, the EEOC also investigates complaints about sexual harassment. When looking at the case regarding two female employees of 1995 Auto Corp, multiple red flags pop up. According to the file, the two females were subject to repeated and welcomed sexual advances by their male supervisor in the workforce. The ladies then proceeded to address the situation to the supervisor’s immediate superior, letting him know how uncomfortable they felt and that they want the behavior to stop. The harassment continued and continued for three months. Because the 1995 Auto Corp did nothing, they are looking at a huge lawsuit. In order to make sure that the Auto Corp has a solid defense, one must further investigate. Sexual...
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...laws that have been set up to protect the employees from the different types of discrimination. One of the key forms of legislation to protect employees is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unfortunately, sexual harassment is a common complaint in a work environment. Sexual harassment does not just have to include inappropriate unwanted touching. Sexual harassment complaints also include derogatory, suggestive, or rude comments, intimidation, and displaying inappropriate photos within the workplace which creates a hostile work environment. Sexual harassment cases are filed with the courts in every state. This paper is going to concentrate on the Alabama case Reeves v. C.H Robinson Worldwide, Inc. A brief background of the reason for the complaint, employer defenses, and the court ruling will be covered. A final topic will analyze if an employer responsible if the accused harasser was an independent contractor instead of an employee. The Case Only two female employees worked for C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Reeves was employed as the transportation sales representative in the summer of 2001. The entire time Reeves worked for the company she experienced sexual misconduct on a daily basis by the male employees. “Reeves alleged that she was subjected to hearing her male co-workers call other women names such as “b***h,” “wh**e” and “c**t” on a daily basis. She also claimed that there were repeated vulgar discussions about female...
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...Korean Trade Union and Organization of Korean women Workers The Korean Women’s Trade Union, commonly referred to as KWTU, is a union formed to protect the rights of women workers to work and safeguard their rights to equal working conditions and benefits. The Korean Women’s Trade Union was created on August 29, 1999 by members of the Korean Women Workers’ Association United (Broadbent & Ford, 2008). Many working women have been mistreated by their companies, the government and the male-dominated trade unions, due to the extensively imposed practices of "firing women first" during mass lay-offs and the conversion of their status from full-time to part-time. Consequently the KWTU was formed to shed light on and abolish the prejudiced policies and actions endorsed against women workers. Currently, the KWTU has 1,500 union members who are involved in the activities of local units of nine major cities including, Seoul, Inchon, Pusan, Kwanju, Buchon, Ansan-Shuheung, Masan-Cangwon, Iksan-Chonju and Taegu. Protecting the rights of many women workers who are often denied membership in other trade union, the KWTU offers membership to all women workers working in any workplace or region. In fact, 71.8 percent of KWTU's membership consists of irregular women workers (Choi, 2000, Song, 2001). This essay has numerous objectives. First, the fundamental incentives for the configuration of the KWTU will be presented. Principally, the discussion will depict the rising number of women...
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...1 National Employment Policy and Strategy of Ethiopia November 2009 Addis Ababa ii Acronyms AIDS ART CETU CSA EEF EPRDF ERP FDI GDP HERQA HICES HIV ICT IHDP IMF M&E MDG MFI MOFED MSE NEC NEPS NES NGO PASDEP PSNP TVET UEAP Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome Anti-retroviral Therapy Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions Central Statistical Agency Ethiopian Employers’ Federation Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front Economic Reform Program Foreign Direct Investment Gross Domestic Product Higher Education Relevance and Quality Agency Household Income and Consumption Expenditure Survey Human Immunodeficiency Virus Information and Communication Technology Integrated Housing Development Program International Monetary Fund Monitoring and Evaluation Millennium Development Goals Micro-finance Institutions Ministry of Finance and Economic Development Micro and Small Enterprises National Employment Council National Employment Policy and Strategy National Employment Secretariat Non-governmental Organization Plan for Accelerated and Sustainable Development to End Poverty Productive Safety Net Program Technical and Vocational Education and Training Universal Electricity Access Program iii Table of Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................................ iv PART ONE Background ......................................................................................................
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...to make social responsibility a part of their business plan in order to provide a positive image and reputation in the marketplace. If firms want to do well for their business in the long term, they must have ethics and social responsibility. Social Responsibility includes: Responsibilities to the general public include dealing with public health issues, protecting the environment, and developing the quality of their workforce. Responsibilities to the customer include considering the customer’s rights, such as the right to be safe, the right to be informed, the right to choose, and the right to be heard. Responsibilities to Investors and the Financial Community Responsibilities to Employees. Companies require skill and knowledge from their employees to properly get the job done for them, so the company can earn a profit. In return the companies have wide ranging responsibilities to their employees. These include workplace safety, quality of life issues, ensuring equal opportunity on the job, avoiding age discrimination, and preventing sexual harassment and sexism. The company overview [pic] The company name: ConAgra Foods, Inc. Industry: Food processing. Products: Various kinds of food products such as cooking oil, peanut butter, frozen meals, hot dogs...
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...several anti-discriminatory acts put in place to help stop abuse, such as the abuse shown at Winterbourne View. The Human Rights Act is one of the main laws protecting your human rights in the UK. It contains a list of 16 rights, also known as ‘articles’ which belong to all people in the UK, and it outlines several ways that these rights should be protected. These rights are drawn from the European Convention on Human Rights, which were developed by the UK and others in aftermath of World War II. Only public authorities or bodies exercising public functions have legal duties under the Human Rights Act. This includes: • The police • NHS organizations and staff • Local authorities and their egoless • NHS private nursing and care home arranged for out of public funds • Prison staff • Courts and tribunals, including mental health tribunals • Government departments and their employees This includes Winterbourne View and the patients and staff. The Human Rights Act protects you from • Torture (mental, physical) • Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment However, the patients at Winterbourne view were not protected by the Human Rights Act because they were tortured both mentally and physically by their “carers”. Also the treatment they received was inhuman and degrading and the so called punishment they received was too extreme. The Human Rights Act was not adopted by the staff at Winterbourne view or the managers. The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from...
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...The Progressive Era was a time period of great change that took place between 1885-1920. The Era was an opportunity given to individuals to succeed. During The Progressive Era there were two groups involved in regulating social and political problems known as the muckrackers and the new middle class. The muckrackers were journalist who exposed corruption in the government and spoke about the truth behind everything in society. The progressive’s goals were to stop the abuse of power, labor laws, suffrages, the corruption of the government and its abuse of power. Progressive’s established settlement houses to improve the living conditions for the poor. They provided a large amount of activities such as education, medical help, nurseries, playgrounds and plenty more. If this wouldn’t of occurred then we wouldn’t have the support we do now from the government with affordable housing, welfare, public schools, and library. The fact we have public school is important because it provides us with the knowledge skills needed to pursue our career. This made a huge impact because schools expanded and states began to pass laws requiring children to attend school until the age of 14. This helped produce a better life for the future. It provided students with options as to what fields they want to study and gave them opportunities to become professionals. Muckrackers exposed corruption in the government and a change was needed in the society. Government was abusing its power with scandals...
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...ETHICS HW WEEK 6 ------------------------------------------------- 1. | Question: | Teddy's Supplies' CEO has asked you to advise him on the facts of the case, and your opinion of their potential liability. Write a memo to him which states your view of whether the company is exposed to liability on all issues you feel are in play. Include in your memo any laws which apply and any precedential cases either for or against Teddy's case which impact liability. Include your opinion of the "worst case" of damages the company may have to pay to Virginia. | | Your Answer: | Memo to CEO: Your company is in fact in liability for negligence in protecting the best interest of your employee, Pollard. Even though she participated in many of the sexual harassment situations your upper management did anything to stop or report any of the activities they were aware of. The people put n charge failed the company and Ms Pollard by not being responsible and assuming just as much responsibility as she had in the situation. Per the EEO guidelines: An employer is always responsible for harassment by a supervisor that culminated in a tangible employment action. If the harassment did not lead to a tangible employment action, the employer is liable unless it proves that: 1) it exercised reasonable care to prevent and promptly correct any harassment; and 2) the employee unreasonably failed to complain to management or to avoid harm otherwise An individual qualifies as an employee's "supervisor"...
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...Workplace Surveillance Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees can be monitored through telephones, computers, the internet, voicemail, telephone conversations, instant message and surveillance. The employee will want to pay close attention to the company policy on privacy and electronic usage as much of these items are unregulated as stated on the privacyrights.org website. Your employer can listen, read and monitor most of your workplace communications. Even if the policy is paid attention to the employee will need to ensure they understand the implications of the privacy policy as it can be hard to say how a judge might decipher the policy which became clear to me during our reading of privacy in chapter four of our text (Halbert 2009). It is important for the employee to know when the communication crossed the line from being private to being property of the company. A big issue these days is how email and internet usage can be monitored and an employee can potentially lose their employment over misuse. It is said that some 28% of employers have fired their employees over misuse of internet as stated on the privacyrights.org website. Phone calls are also monitored when employees have conversations with customers. It stands to reason if an employee has communications with customers the business would have a right to monitor these calls. If an employee has a personal conversation the employer is required to stop listening...
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...order to provide service to the public, as well as protecting employees’ well being. Such laws will allow employees to display proper ethical behaviour and often, they act as “guidelines” to how they should make sensible decisions and not succumb to personal temptations.1 Otherwise, the employer has to answer for any lack of morality. In addition, there are also laws that allow one to be socially responsible. Certain responsibilities may carry dire consequences to the public and ultimately, the industry itself, if they are not taken very seriously. Thus, industries find that such laws are important to safeguard their good image to the public and retain the public’s trust in them. This is to ensure that they will not lose their capabilities to maximize profits in this ever changing world economy. One particular industry that is firm in following such laws will be the aviation and the airline industries. In any airline industry, the safety of the passengers is their top priority. No one will be daring enough to board an airplane if the aviation crew repeatedly failed to search for any fault within the plane before it is ready for flight. Thus, it is up to the crew, consisting of engineers and technicians, to ensure that every plane has to be thoroughly checked, repaired and fueled before any departure happens. Hence, it is their social responsibility to ensure so. Such responsibility may seem too heavy for some employees, including the fact that they are carrying a huge...
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...allow to married, does it mean she ready to have a children and taking care of them? Second, because of her husband dead means she have no rights and abilities to taking care of her children and make a decision by herself. The last, how can the judge know that she can not effort her children and other person will taking care the children better than the mother. Is it real? The question From the novel connect to the real situation in Bangladesh. By year 2008,the Bangladesh government has pushed ahead with a new National Women’s Development Policy (NWDP).The Bangladesh’s image from the world view was better than the past and it attracted many investor to invest the business in the country. Even through Bangladesh’s government attempt to prove the image of masculine social to Gender equality social in the globalization age, with many evidence such as the statistic of rape, gang rape, murder, torture and acid throwing to the women showed the increase number that the government policies in women’s right are fail. In the deep-seated culture that man is dominating society. It seems not easy for Government to solve the women’s right problem in Bangladesh for few years. However, the discrimination against women in Bangladesh might be able solve if the government solve three main problems: Educated the citizen, Gender equal employment, and Women's rights in politic. The pictures of Sexual Oppression in Bangladesh are common and easy to see in every place in this country. For example,...
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...one type, ideas, cultures, and race (Merriam Webster, n.d). Diversity’s role within the workplace aides in areas like increased company exposure, conflict resolution, and networking. Discrimination is defined as “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people” (Merriam Webster, n.d ). Discrimination role within a workplace is not tolerate. In addition there are laws in place that prohibited discrimination in almost all forms and types. Discrimination at Play An over 50 year women name Beth was hired to work as part of the senior management team for an automobile manufacturing company. Prior to her hire the senior management team was made up of 7 males, making her the only female on this team. The practice of this company included having employment contracts for all those employed on a senior management level. One term of this contract entitled senior management to a MBO (management by objectives) bonus, each year if the company and employee performed above normal expectations. The bonus structure was 2 percent of department profits. Moving forward 3 years and the first time since her employment MBO’s...
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... The Mission of Southwest Airlines The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual “Our people are our single greatest strength and most enduring longterm competitive advantage.” Gary Kelly, CEO Southwest Airlines Time flies when you’re having fun! More than 38 years ago, Rollin King and Herb Kelleher got together and decided to start a different kind of airline. They began with one simple notion: If you get your passengers to their destinations when they want to get there, on time, at the lowest possible fares, and make darn sure they have a good time doing it, people will fly your airline. And you know what? They were right. What began as a small Texas airline has grown to become one of the largest airlines in America. Today, Southwest Airlines flies over 100 million passengers a year to 66 great cities all across the country, and we do it more than 3,200 times a day. To illustrate our steadfast focus on a triple bottom line—our Performance, our People, and our Planet—we have highlighted these three elements of sustainability in a new format, our first annual One Report. This comprehensive document combines a report on our 2009 financial performance and updated content from our 2008 Southwest Cares report—our corporate responsibility and environmental report—while elevating our triple bottom line through adherence to the Global Reporting Initiative, an...
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