Title: The effectiveness of the current labor relations system Course: Labor and Management Relations The current labor relations system has its strengths and weaknesses. It can work well within the workplace‚ but the system has barriers that can create issues with resolving disputes within it. Unions and management often are able to negotiate provisions peacefully in the labor agreement to allow such things as medical and dental insurance‚ shift differential pay‚ pensions‚ employee stock
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To protect the rights of both employees and employers‚ the NLRA defines certain activities as unfair labor practices. These unfair labor practices are illegal under the NLRA and under state laws. These unfair labor practices can be committed by either employer or unions. Unfair labor practices by management were implemented by the National Labor Relations Act and the unfair labor practices by labor
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What is The Fair Labor Standards Act? Jacqueline Daniels ACCT 1130 Payroll Accounting Tomeika Williams February 5‚ 2014 Abstract “The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 is one of the most important pieces of legislation ever enacted‚ giving a voice to the millions of Americans in our workforce.” (Resource FLSA Law ‚ 2006) Keywords: workforce What is The Fair Labor Standards Act? In 1983‚ President Roosevelt retained the Fair Labor Standards Act‚ which legitimately
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What challenges do you see with interpreting labor and employment laws and court decisions? There are a lot of grey areas in interpreting labor and employment laws. No one case can exactly apply to another. The must rely on precedents but be able to adapt them. For example the three part test (mentioned below) can be adapted to almost any case involving supervisory status. Case Study 3.1 1. Drake and Keeler could argue that they were engaged in a concerted and lawful act. This means two
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Child Labor Laws In The 1800’s Child Labor‚ once known as the practice of employing young children in factories‚ now it’s used as a term for the employment of minors in general‚ especially in work that would interfere with their education or endanger their health. Throughout history and in all cultures children would work in the fields with their parents‚ or in the marketplace and young girls in the home until they were old enough to perform simple tasks. The use of child labor was not a problem
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Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining Agreements Strayer University BUS 310 Prof. Robert High March 15‚ 2009 Outline Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining Agreements I. History of the American Labor Movement a. Labor and Employee Laws b. The Union II. Labor Relation Process c. Public-Sector Labor Relations
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cinematography. It strikes a chord in the hearts of many. Who like to be wearing the life of a little girl? This is the dark reality of many children’s lives. Child labor‚ the exploiting of children for profit‚ is far more prominent in the world than the average person realizes. According to stopchildlabor.org‚ 168 million children are pressed into labor under physical or financial threat; these children are forced to work to support their families or pay off a debt. They can be as young as five years old‚
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automatically thought about the 2011 NBA lockout. When I chose this topic I did not know a lot about how the NBA (National Basketball Association) and NBPA (National Basketball Players Association) functioned as a whole. I do know about basketball but this labor dispute had really nothing to do with basketball the game but everything to do with basketball the business. I had never thought of the NBA as a business before. Picking this dispute gave me a chance to dive into information and research on how the
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Conceptual Frameworks In chapter 1 some of the sections that mainly stood out to me were the concept of identity‚ dominant and subordinate groups‚ and the concept of privilege. The readings in this chapter took me through several steps as I read. I first thought about identity and how I view myself. Then I thought on how others view me. Identity then led into dominant and subordinate groups. The way I identify myself places me in a dominant or subordinate group
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Provide a brief overview of the social injustices that exist in our local community/world. In this day and age‚ many social injustices are occurring throughout the world. One of the most heinous injustices that many people know of is Asylum Seekers. In Australia‚ we turn away Asylum Seekers and the subject has become a very popular debate in the community. For people who don’t know what an Asylum Seeker is‚ it’s someone who has escaped or is fleeing their country in search of a better life filled
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