Team A will be researching the problems BIMS is facing to determine the cause of the decrease in employee productivity, morale, and the increase of customer complaints from the hospital staff and administration. A survey was administered by BIMS to the employees asking them questions about how they feel about the company, how many times they called in sick, if they were well trained, if they are paid fairly, and if they like their supervisor. Our hypothesis is that low pay is the cause of the increased turnover rate. Instruments for Data Collection The instrument used in collecting the data was from a survey sent out to all 449 employees excluding the top management personnel. The survey was sent out with the biweekly payroll checks to ensure every employee received one.
She establishes her credibility on the issue of unpaid internships by detailing the unpaid internship she completed herself when she was in college. Kamenetz then challenges the reader to consider the possibility that unpaid internships could in fact be detrimental to not only the intern’s future careers but also the entire labor market as a whole. Next, she lists the risks for the interns completing unpaid internships, such as, lost wages, living expenses, and additional debt. After stating the opportunity costs of unpaid internships she asserts that unpaid internships don’t prepare the interns for their future careers due to the, at best, quasi-professional nature of the duties interns perform. Kamenetz say that unpaid internships are creating unrealistic expectations for what individual’s careers are actually like in these fields.
ACC/291 Week 1 Discussion Questions 1. How are bad debts accounted for under the direct write-off method? What are the disadvantages of this method? The direct write-off method is when a company determines that an account is uncollectible and it charges the loss to the Bad Debts Expense. An example of this would be when a customer is not able to pay their bill because due to a downturn in the economy, money may be tight if they have been laid off from their jobs or faced with unexpected hospital bills.
Basic Human rights covered by law: Wages, holidays, and holiday pay. Lay offs and short term working. Sickness, time off work, the right to ask for time off for training, the right to ask for flexible working. Health and Safety, harassment and discrimination, bullying, trade unions, whistleblowing at work. How much notice you must receive, how much notice is an employer entitled to, are you entitled to be paid in your notice period, pay in lieu of notice, Sunday working, Christmas Day working, Enforcing rights at work.
There is an ongoing shortage of nurses, which along with emotional stressors, is said to be the cause of burnout among nurses. It has made nurses fearful of patient safety because of the inadequate staffing. The most common source of burnout among nurses is the work overload. The problem of inadequate staffing causes nurses to have an increased workload. Nurses can end up working long days and nights, overtime work, rotating shifts, and weekend work.
Several of those issues began in the 1990s when changes in the health care system were implemented. Due to conflicts in funding, hospital staffs were greatly reduced. When facilities required more nurses such as times when there was an unexpected increase in patient admission, instead of hiring additional staff, mandatory overtime was used (Keenan, 2003). At the height of their need, the amount of practicing nurses has declined. With baby boomers reaching retirement age they will need health care services which only increases the demand for nurses.
These cost are result of companies either not paying their workers compensation insurance premium or under paying, by lying about the size of their work force. For example in California a construction company would deliberately misreport wages paid to its workers to avoid paying all of the payroll taxes and state insurance premiums. According to the deputy District attorney Paul Flick, “if an employees salary was $11/hour and worked 40 hours/week, the company would report it as the employee was paid $22/hour and worked 20 hour/week to save more than half of worker compensation insurance cost for that employee.” Across the map on the east NY state alone employer committing worker compensation insurance fraud is costing 1 billion a year. This causes a cycle effect that leads to the honest companies to make up for the lack of premium paid and as a result they end up paying higher premium. Also some injured workers don’t receive the worker compensation benefit that they are entitling to which leads to raise in medical costs.
Bradley Bishop PHL/320 Week 2 Re-organization and Layoff Team Discussion & Summary What is the problem presented in the article? Downsizing, also known as restructuring, rightsizing, reengineering, or reorganizing refers to a permanent reduction of workforce through layoffs and other means, and comes with changes that affect the workforce, such as changes in job descriptions, department consolidations, office closures, and the like. Layoffs are painful and stressful for everyone, employers and employees alike. If your company has decided that layoffs are necessary, you can make the best of a bad situation by taking steps to conduct the layoffs respectfully, address your company's concerns about security when workers leave, and
He looks in to the costs associated with accidents in the work place and references a US study saying in now runs in to the billions for compensation claims each year. The Savery and Lucks example looks at the association with long hours and work place accidents and discuss theories to explain why employees are more likely to fall prone to illness or injury when subjected to long working hours. Due to an increased focus on Occupational Health and safety in workplaces over the last decades, the total amount of hours worked by employees appears to have steadily fallen With this fall in working hours, reported accidents and illnesses declined. Another US study within the Steel industry referenced the number of lost workdays from illness and injury from 1988 through to 1992 was a result of fewer working hours (Robertson, 1994). So the author is suggesting we are getting smarter each year in helping identifying certain job roles that need additional resources to help ease too much over time demands.
National Guard Soldiers and Airmen sometimes received orders at the last possible minute, placing a greater strain on part-time military members and employers, and potentially lost their civilian jobs due to numerous deployments. Despite laws that support military members through the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Program, during this faltering economy, these veterans are more at risk for unemployment than those not serving in the military. The longer that National Guardsmen have been away from their families, jobs, and communities, the greater the changes and challenges they face. Communities evolved: one’s peer group may have changed due to veteran vs. non- veteran or political perspective. The veteran’s new physical or psychological health may have created a small or drastic change, with coworkers feeling uncomfortable interacting with the veteran.