Situation A In 1993, The Family and Medical Leave Act was taken place which allows up to 12 weeks per calendar year to take a leave. You either have to work 12 months in past year or 1250 hours, must have more than 50 employees in the company and reside in U.S. or U.S. territory land. The company that John worked for had more than 50 employees and he was working outside the U.S. but, works on U.S. territory land. His wife was about to go into on maternity leave and was going to have a procedure afterwards. He requested a medical leave from his company so that he can help his wife back home.
201: Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children and young people's settings 1.1 List the aspects of employment covered by law The Law protects both the rights and responsibilities of both employees and employers. Three examples of employee rights currently protected by law are; Sick Pay, Holiday Entitlement and Maternity Pay and Leave. 1.2 List the main features of current employment By law, after an employee has been sick for four days they are entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), which is a minimum of £87.55 a week for up to 28 weeks. Some companies may pay more depending on their policy, but never less. However employers do not have to give sick pay if the employee has been ill for less than 4 days, or is paid less than £111 a week.
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.
Recruitment and selection within health and social care Recruiting a new employee to our home is a very complex process. From conducting the interviews and collecting the references of candidates to the final selection, the process is covered by many laws. These laws are implemented to ensure that: The recruitment process will be equal and fair and applicants are not discriminated against on the grounds of age, sex or ethnicity, and applicants who reply have the right to work in the UK Firstly we place an ad with the local jobcentre plus, we then make sure that we do not discriminate against anyone in the process on the grounds of age, sex or race. This can be positively or negatively, for example - "We want a keen young trainee"
Employment laws are important for all businesses. The employment
All six elements are present in the above case, therefore, the company should be held accountable for paying the tuition. I have learned through this critical analysis paper the importance of understanding the basic concepts of an oral contract, in order to understand the essentials of business law. I will be able to use what I have learned in this course to show the essentials of business law process within a company. I have realized the importance of knowing what is required in an oral contract and now recognize the legal enforcement elements of every contract. This paper has shown me that corporations and individuals can use these elements to legally enforce the oral contracts that are made on a daily basis.
According to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, an employee who works more than the maximum of forty hours per weeks must be paid no less than 1.5 times his/her regular pay rate for all hours over forty (Hollowell & Miller, 2012). The FLSA takes concern in child labor laws, minimum wages, and overtime provisions. Overtime is usually referred to as “time and a half”, which means you are paid one and a half times the hourly rate for each hour worked over the forty hour limit. In this case, I only achieved more than forty hours for the first two weeks. Since I am a non-exempt employee, I have to be paid minimum wage: $7.25 as of July 24, 2009 (Hollowell & Miller, 2012).
Business Communications - Homework Task There are various types of information that are both used by and created by organisations all of which have their own purpose such as informing employees of internal activities or stakeholders of developments within the organisation. You have been placed in charge of improving communication of a large company in the city of London and have been asked to study a competitor in order to facilitate this. Using one of the companies from the list below think about the types of information that they produce why they may produce it and where they will get the information from. It is important that you look at all aspects to get a whole view on the communications the business uses and why. Companies you may wish to consider: * BP * Thorpe Park * Ford
Starting pay for a new EMT can be anywhere between 12.50 an hour to 515.00 an hour. For an experienced EMT this can be up to 20.00 dollars an hour to 25.00 an hour. Benefits There are many benefits of being an EMT for Isle of Wight County. 1. $250 tax deduction 2.
This is that of a respondent. These are the people that provide information and data by answering and taking part in all forms of market research. By doing so they provide all forms of quantitative and qualitative data that is suitable and relevant for an organisation and in particular Tesco. By having respondents they are able to access and obtain primary research as they gain the information first hand. Tesco use respondents in all market research that is primary data as they are the ones that buy all the products and use all of the services to help Tesco be the company they are today.