Employment-At-Will Doctrine Christy D. Harris LEG 500: Law and Ethics in the Business Environment April 18, 2012 Instructor: Dr. Shenia Kirkland The Employment At Will Doctrine states that an employer can terminate an employee for any cause or without cause at any given time unless there is a binding contract in which stipulations can hinder the at will termination process. In this paper you will find four scenarios in which the employment at will doctrine is considered in regards to termination of an employee, preventive measures, and legal implications. Scenario One: Jennifer, an employee that was hired out of college has been unable to learn the basic required skills to do her job. Realizing Jennifer’s incompetence and abilities to perform her job responsibilities as the employer I would began addressing the issues properly by using the following steps to be taken based upon skills, competence, and abilities. First step is to issue a verbal warning: If there are signs of cracks, bring them into your office as quietly as possible without embarrassing the employee, and just verbally discuss the issues at hand.
Executive orders along with legislation are a response to the event. BP dismissed their Chief Executive Officer after suffering from a media communications nightmare. World outcry to boycott BP service stations is only one out of several backlashes that face BP. BP is being made an example of and other companies are taking note and improving the way they conduct business. It is necessary for the reader to understand what went wrong in order to get a good understanding on the event that will be referred to often in the many years to come.
He made the truth known to the public about the industry's disregard for health and safety during an interview with 60 MINUTES and during a deposition he was compelled to give in an action against the tobacco companies. ! A lawsuit was filed against him by Brown & Williamson because of his public disclosures about the industry's efforts to minimize the health and safety issue of tobacco use. (Louisville-based Brown & Williamson is owned by BAT Industries, Plc, the world's second largest tobacco concern.) The lawsuit was dismissed as a condition of the June 20, 1997 historic $368 billion settlement between the Attorneys General of 40 States and the tobacco industry.
Rice's contract was terminated by the Ravens on September 8, 2014 following the release of an additional video of the incident. Rice was unquestionably persecuted for the assault against his then fiancé, now wife. Rice’s actions and the rising video showing the incident, resulted him to lose his job not only to being a running back for the Baltimore Ravens, but the whole league itself. No other team in the NFL wants to sign Rice to their team because of his assault which has a left a permanent bad look on his career. Society’s response to the persecution was very normal to any case that deals with a well known person or even a person who isn't well known, that has been assaulted with violence.
Irene Joseph Professor Johnson ENGL 1301-219 January 31, 2012 Why Doesn’t GM Sell Crack? A Rhetorical Analysis of Moore’s “Why Doesn’t GM Sell Crack?” This text is an essay by Michael Moore entitled “Why Doesn’t GM Sell Crack?” It is taken from his political book Downsize This! published in 1996. This essay bought up a lot of radical thinking but at the same time, it helped the author get his point across. Moore persuades his audiences by saying as a society; we tend to forget what the outcome is when big corporations decide to fire workers because the CEO wants more for their salary.
He walks and talks too fast, and always orders with the word “now, today, this afternoon”. He asks vice principal to get the exam score by herself instead of waiting for mail. He processes information verbally which is Es type indeed. Then the things were much more complex and wearisome for the real Joe, who ran up against opposition from parents and politicians for his quasi-unlawful practices (he locks all but one entrance to the school, which is a violation of the fire code, and fires a teacher without having
One instance of this would be the recent scandal that has shaken not only the Sherriff’s department but the community as a whole. The chief deputy, who happens to be the school board president as well, was accused of repeated statutory rape of a minor under his command. This behavior is obviously unacceptable, but the employees of the Sherriff’s department refused to believe that their supervisor and co-worker could be capable of this kind of thing. His behavior was atrocious and if he was a regular citizen everyone would have been ready to throw him to the wolves. Because he was who he was and he did what he did for the community people believed that it was impossible for him to do the things that he was accused of.
All Foxconn workers are forbidden to talk to journalists, and completely obey of the management is the number one rule disregard whether the managers are qualified or not. After the serial suicides of Foxconn workers are reported, the Foxconn Company and the Apple Inc. are exposed to condemnations from the whole society, mostly from the moral level. From my perspective, the major issue is the company’s management operates the company under the premise of maximizing profit regardless of the deficiency of corporate moral responsibility. I personally stand on the
Question: How would you describe Larry Ellison's personality? Larry Ellison’s personality can be deduced using the Big Five Personality Model: Extraversion – Low Larry Ellison’s 30 minute profanity riddled speech goes to say he is not bothered about its effects on the people it was directed too. Neuroticism - High In his speech he was highly critical of everyone else except Oracle’s own business failure in application software. Larry has managed to develop foes in the form of his former chief employees. He also is well known for firing people and is critical of his former President and Senior Executive, refusing to replace them.
Enron is the “poster child for bad corporate behavior” (Steinauer & Casison, 2002). Enron’s over-the-top antics were put in motion to motivate the employees when all it did was help bring the company down. Lack of Leadership Sherron Watkins will forever be known as the whistle blower at Enron. Too bad her warnings were never heeded. She testified before Congress that she tried to warn Chief Executive Officer Ken Lay about the accounting practices.