Case Study: Newcorp Legal Issues

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Newcorp Legal Issues Newcorp has recently had three incidents that require legal advice. This report discusses my decisions on the three incidents. I have listed the supporting cases and legal principals in this report. Be advised that I am not a lawyer specialized in any of the areas that Newcorp is seeking my decisions on. Legal Encounters Legal Encounter 1 Newcorp is unable to use employment at will to terminate Pat Grey. Pat Grey has invested personally in Newcorp by relocating his family for his job and his wife giving up her job. The Personnel Manual clearly states that Newcorp will notify an employee of unsatisfactory work and put them on a Corrective Action Plan that includes a specific date that the employee needs to have corrected…show more content…
The U.S. Supreme Court did acknowledge in its holding that tort liability might result from its decision but that such liability was often used as a guise or cover for gender discrimination. The position of many of the employers is that even if there were evidence linking the toxins to birth defects, the women took the jobs with knowledge about the risk and agreed to that risk. Any employer will have difficulty trying to reconcile antidiscrimination laws against risks of exposure as concerned by Sam, the Title VII bans sex-specific fetal-protection policies. The best an employer could do is to fully inform the women of the risk and not to act negligently. Congress has left this choice to the woman as hers to make, thus, Newcorp should allow Paula to make her own informed decision and allowed to transfer if she pleases (Net Industries,…show more content…
The safety manager for Newcorp reviewed the area and deemed it safe. Paul also said that he became claustrophobic because of working in such confining spaces, and that this condition arose out of his employment, making it a worker compensation issue. The purpose of workers’ compensation laws is to provide wage benefits and medical care to victims of work-related injuries. The standard for recovery under the workers’ compensation system is that the injury originates in the workplace, be caused by the workplace, or develop over time in the workplace. Even stress, when shown to be caused or originated by employment, is a compensable injury. Therefore, Paul’s claim could be applicable. Employee negligence, employer precautions, contributory negligence, and assumption of risk are generally not issues in workers’ compensation cases (Jennings,

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