Federal Law: Stopping Discrimination In The Workplace

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Ryan HRM546/Individual Assessment Professor Rambeau University of Phoenix June 22, 2012 OUTLINE: BRIEFING THE COST CLUB SENIOR REGIONAL STAFF: FIVE MAJOR AREAS TO BE DISCUSSED IN ORDER FOR COST CLUB TO THRIVE: 1. Employee Privacy Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this is the main federal law stopping discrimination in the workplace. It safeguards both the employer and employee from being discriminated against due to color, race, sex, religion, or origin. Title VII stops employers from making work related decisions that is motivated by one’s protected trait. An example, Pacific Company can be sued in favoring a white worker over a Hispanic worker due to race. Title VII doesn’t cover disability of age discrimination.…show more content…
• Workers have the “right to assist, form, or join” labor unions bargaining collectively by using representatives they select. • Workers have the right “to engage in various activities for the purpose of collective bargaining, mutual aid, or protection. • Workers also have that right to stay away from certain activities by NLRB. Examples of Cost Club Management that can violate NLRA: • Management promising certain benefits for workers so they won’t join a union. • Management assigning harsh tasks to those employees that are in the union. • Management telling employees if they vote against the union, they’ll give each worker extra days off per year. • Management telling an employee he or she is up for a promotion, they better think twice before voting for the union. Harned, K. R. (n.d.). Union PowerPoint. Retrieved from www.nfib.com/Portals/0/PDF/AllUsers/Union%20PowerPoint.pdf 3. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): We at Cost Club are indebted to do the…show more content…
• Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) carries out ERISA. • The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) modified ERISA thus making health care coverage convenient and secure for workers. (2012). The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Retrieved from http://www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-erisa.htm 5. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): • For FLSA to apply, there has to be an employment relationship between the “company” and the “worker”. • Established minimum wages, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting workers within the private sector to include federal, local, and state governments. Overtime is to be paid after a worker has gone over 40 hours of work in a week. • Overtime rate is 1.5 times a workers regular time rate. • Workers can’t waive their rights to overtime pay; it’s a legal obligation. • Most union contracts require overtime pay after an 8-hour workday. • Law states that a worker can agree to add more hours of work but nothing less. (2012). Wage and Hour Division (WHD). Retrieved from

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