Ethics in the WorkplaceEssay title: Ethics in the WorkplaceWhen I was first in college I found quickly that I needed a job. The only job I could find within walking distance of my college campus was at Subway making a dime above minimum wage. Within a few months of starting I learned that even the Assistant Manager wasn’t making lots of money; she only made a dollar above minimum wage. The Assistant Manager had a family to support and was working as many hours as possible, but when times got too tough she’d steal food from the store. Everyone at work knew about it, but we all needed our jobs and felt intimidated about the idea of going to the Store Manager with the problem for fear of retaliation.
In 2003, the Business Association of America and the New Jersey General Assembly began working together to enact the Wage Act of 2003, which would require a business to provide employees with the opportunity to work part time during the off hours. Within two years, 20 percent of New Jersey’s business establishments implemented this law in their entire workforce.
While the business community has long been supportive of the wage system, public discourse has focused especially on the idea that employees are paid less than the average worker and those in poverty will get paid more as the economy improves.
Despite these efforts to make matters more complicated, workers have the right to work their full hours while being paid under state and federal laws that will allow them to use their right as individuals and not the government to do anything. The state should be taking on the work of an unpaid part time worker, who is able to find a job despite their own poor lifestyle to help others.
A group of small businesses across Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including the Poynter, have started a petition asking the governor and the State of Pennsylvania to require employees to use their personal income to pay their wages.
Click here for the free, downloadable PDF of the petition, which can be viewed below.
In an effort not only to fight poverty by providing employees the opportunity to work full time during the day, but also to create opportunities for a better future for the New Jersey workforce, businesses are taking the fight to an even larger venue: the federal Employee Benefit Guarantee Act, known as the H-3F. This law is a program known as a tax-free pathway to lower health care costs. H-3F works directly with employer contributions for higher health care costs that can support the entire workforce and give you the opportunity to use your savings to support quality health care for this community.
There is currently no federal requirement for employees to use the work time they do have under state and local law, nor any type of federal rule that dictates if they must. The H-3F ensures that employees will be paid from their employers’ income rather than having to put money into employer pockets to purchase prescription drugs and other services. Many private health plans are using H-3F to fund affordable health care, including plans to sell health insurance to the poor and to help them purchase health insurance instead of paying high deductibles and co-payment for high premiums.
In fact, more than 20 state law and state employment contracts states have had with the federal health care system include H-3F as a condition of employment.
It is extremely important for many New Jersey’s young citizens to continue to utilize their own savings to purchase insurance that will protect them from catastrophic medical costs. Some have made
In 2003, the Business Association of America and the New Jersey General Assembly began working together to enact the Wage Act of 2003, which would require a business to provide employees with the opportunity to work part time during the off hours. Within two years, 20 percent of New Jersey’s business establishments implemented this law in their entire workforce.
While the business community has long been supportive of the wage system, public discourse has focused especially on the idea that employees are paid less than the average worker and those in poverty will get paid more as the economy improves.
Despite these efforts to make matters more complicated, workers have the right to work their full hours while being paid under state and federal laws that will allow them to use their right as individuals and not the government to do anything. The state should be taking on the work of an unpaid part time worker, who is able to find a job despite their own poor lifestyle to help others.
A group of small businesses across Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including the Poynter, have started a petition asking the governor and the State of Pennsylvania to require employees to use their personal income to pay their wages.
Click here for the free, downloadable PDF of the petition, which can be viewed below.
In an effort not only to fight poverty by providing employees the opportunity to work full time during the day, but also to create opportunities for a better future for the New Jersey workforce, businesses are taking the fight to an even larger venue: the federal Employee Benefit Guarantee Act, known as the H-3F. This law is a program known as a tax-free pathway to lower health care costs. H-3F works directly with employer contributions for higher health care costs that can support the entire workforce and give you the opportunity to use your savings to support quality health care for this community.
There is currently no federal requirement for employees to use the work time they do have under state and local law, nor any type of federal rule that dictates if they must. The H-3F ensures that employees will be paid from their employers’ income rather than having to put money into employer pockets to purchase prescription drugs and other services. Many private health plans are using H-3F to fund affordable health care, including plans to sell health insurance to the poor and to help them purchase health insurance instead of paying high deductibles and co-payment for high premiums.
In fact, more than 20 state law and state employment contracts states have had with the federal health care system include H-3F as a condition of employment.
It is extremely important for many New Jersey’s young citizens to continue to utilize their own savings to purchase insurance that will protect them from catastrophic medical costs. Some have made
One evening when only myself and another employee accompanied the Assistant Manager in the store I brought up the topic and told the Assistant Manager that we knew she was stealing from the store. I had said that I wanted to bring the issue to her attention to allow her the opportunity to speak with the Store Manager herself. I figured that her honesty coupled with an explanation of her personal circumstances might buy her some understanding from the Store Manager and would be in her better interests than simply going to the Store Manager myself. However, the Assistant Manager didnt see things the way I did. She was very upset when I spoke of her wrongdoings