process of collective bargaining between management and union officials has historically been adversarial in nature, causing great rifts in an organizational- decision making process. The very first union was a disorganized attempt at organizing workers to rally for basic labor rights. Unionization was a new concept and management officials did not receive it with open arms. Collective bargaining is the process of negotiation by which collective agreements are reached. Such agreements are compromises
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Rights of undocumented aliens to healthcare Name: Institution: Date: Executive summary According to the US Congress in 2010, President Obama made the PPACA a law but still this act does not include the undocumented aliens in the medical coverage. This report reviews the rights of the undocumented aliens to healthcare and hoe this can be improved. This research discovered that the undocumented aliens have limited access to health care due to lack of identity papers. This is due to the fact
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to call their Senator; they are going to call the City Manager. That is the person that has influence over their decisions. American union membership in the private sector has in recent years fallen under 9%--levels not seen since 1932. Workers seem uninterested in joining, and strike activity has almost faded away. The labor force in unionized automobile and steel plants, for example, has fallen dramatically. Construction trades in cities have suddenly shifted from over 75% unionized to
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HBR.ORG JULY AUGUST REPRINT F B Why Top Young Managers Are in a Nonstop Job Hunt by Monika Hamori, Jie Cao, and Burak Koyuncu IDEA WATCH IDEA WATCH FOR ARTICLE REPRINTS CALL OR , OR VISIT HBR.ORG Why Top Young Managers Are in a Nonstop Job Hunt THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT GAP We asked young managers: On a scale of 1 to 5, how important are these items to you? We also asked to what extent their employers provide them. The biggest discrepancies are (not surprisingly) in the areas
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e3de3dde3dwcccccccc 1. How does the existence of the underemployed and the discouraged workers skew (distort) the meaning of the unemployment data? Consider an unemployment rate of 4%. This means that of the labor force 4 out of 100 people are actively looking for a job and the other 96 some kind of job. These numbers say nothing about the population outside of the labor force, nor the quantity of work performed by those in the labor force. Consequently, the 4% does not capture the the part
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MEMORANDUM TO: Mr. Lim FROM: Ms. Ixara DATE: 4 August 2013 ------------------------------------------------- RE: Tardiness Issue After reading the case and information given, it could be concluded that Amran is a good worker yet he has a problem regarding tardiness. There are some beneficial recommendations that could be implemented for the purpose of improvement as well as the consequences if actions are being made. 1. Flexible time Management could introduce a flexible time
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Davis v. The Board of County Commissioners of Dona Ana County What was the legal issue in this case? The legal issue in this case was deciding whether an employer owes prospective employers and foreseeable third persons a duty of reasonable care not to misrepresent material facts in the course of making an employment recommendation about a present or former employee, when a substantial risk of physical harm to third persons by the employee is foreseeable (Walsh
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underemployment: The number of workers taking part-time jobs because of the slack economy, a kind of stealth underemployment, has doubled in this recession to about 9 million, or 5.8% of the work force. 5. Full-time workers are being downgraded to part-time as businesses slash labor costs to remain above water. 6. The average length of official unemployment increased to 24.5 weeks. This is the longest term since the government started to track these data in 1948. 7. The average worker saw no wage gains
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experience violence may be reluctant to call the cops since what they're doing is illegal. Sex workers in licensed brothels, on the other hand, can have somebody to back them up, according to a paper by Barbara Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck of the University of Nevada. Brents and Hausbeck interviewed brothel owners and made these observations… The study concluded that "brothels offer the safest environment available for women to sell consensual sex acts for money (Fuchs)”. Sex workers now are prone to not
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Behaviorally Anchored Ratings Scale (BARS) Guide 1. Acceptance of Supervision – Willingly accepts and follows instructions given by supervisor in the performance of duties; responds to training and coaching in a constructive manner. |Rating |Possible Behavioral examples | |Meets Expectation |Readily accepts and completes assigned responsibilities
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