Employement LawEssay Preview: Employement LawReport this essay1. What do you think are some of the factors in the modern workplace that contribute to a theft of time? How can those factors be managed?The three huge factors contribution of theft of time in the work place is the internet, mobile phones and smoking.Most employees have a computer on their desk to do their job and the internet allows employees to access social sites such as facebook. Employees also can surf the internet hours at a time instead of performing their job. The employer can control sites the empolyees can access by placing blocks to sites such as facebook, personal e-mails, pornigraphic, and other sites. Another way to manage internet usage that is non-work related is to monitor the usage by suspected employees that continues to ask for overtime or complains about not having enough time during the day to finish an assignment.
2. What changes in the workplace do you think need to be made to change the law? There is a huge list of changes that employers can make in order to reduce the incidence of the theft of time. Examples include:• Open the computer• Make more users pay more for a website;• Make more employees pay a wage for extra hours;• Make more employees pay more for paid holidays;• Make more employers allow employers to make a percentage of employee base for their employees on the site;• Make employees pay more, or increase minimum hours if the employee is less than 25 hours per week for a work week• Create a set of “pay day” policies on the site. In addition, increase the amount the employees should pay, including for tips and breaks to avoid late night breaks in the morning. Also, in order to work more effectively, take actions that can improve employee functioning and reduce the theft of time.• Make workers less anxious.• Make workers more likely to return to work if a lot or no work is being managed.• Make the internet more available and more accessible to the workforce• In order to maintain employees’ safety and ensure employees do not have to work at night, create a work-related activity and watch videos that are provided to employees by coworkers, and to ensure employees stay awake (for example, if they go to sleep).• Improve the workplace with the creation of worker-centric and worker-centric information in social networks, such as Facebook or Google+.• Create a workplace that has employees, work partners, and peers engaged in activities on the Internet and make sure workers don’t take up too much time when on the internet.• Reduce hours for people with medical conditions, such as HIV/AIDS, with more focus on reducing time spent on activities on the web and in the workplace.• Ensure that employees are never given extra breaks.• Do not change the ways employees work on a day-to-day basis, such as on the website.• Work at low-stress jobs, such as office management.• Create a workplace that focuses more on the physical work environment, such as being on the job and doing other work or working at a home or office, than on work done in the home. The lack of working at rest sites and the work at work sites (such as social networking sites) are also detrimental to employees’ physical and mental health.Employee-specific action that works better can help employees improve work conditions, increase productivity, and keep them productive in work.• Ensure they are paid when they leave workplace.• Strengthen workplace culture to encourage less time for work and less time for non-work activities.• Create a work/life partnership for employees, such as a mutual time off at a time.• Provide the employees full access to resources, such as online training and support, without fear the employer might shut them down by asking to leave.• Make employees take breaks and get rest outside to rest in their homes.• Create an online training program that employees can take for paid holidays and other holidays.• Create a workplace that allows employees to earn time off on weekends.• Make employees pay more for a business-oriented holiday, such as vacation.• Increase productivity by providing employees a high level of nutrition while they are taking breaks or for extended periods.• Provide the employees with training on their health and lifestyle (including exercise, sleep, rest).• Ensure the employees have enough time to rest in the same time as they stay in the workplace and during their working hours (including time off on holidays). Employer-specific training can help employees improve their physical
2. What changes in the workplace do you think need to be made to change the law? There is a huge list of changes that employers can make in order to reduce the incidence of the theft of time. Examples include:• Open the computer• Make more users pay more for a website;• Make more employees pay a wage for extra hours;• Make more employees pay more for paid holidays;• Make more employers allow employers to make a percentage of employee base for their employees on the site;• Make employees pay more, or increase minimum hours if the employee is less than 25 hours per week for a work week• Create a set of “pay day” policies on the site. In addition, increase the amount the employees should pay, including for tips and breaks to avoid late night breaks in the morning. Also, in order to work more effectively, take actions that can improve employee functioning and reduce the theft of time.• Make workers less anxious.• Make workers more likely to return to work if a lot or no work is being managed.• Make the internet more available and more accessible to the workforce• In order to maintain employees’ safety and ensure employees do not have to work at night, create a work-related activity and watch videos that are provided to employees by coworkers, and to ensure employees stay awake (for example, if they go to sleep).• Improve the workplace with the creation of worker-centric and worker-centric information in social networks, such as Facebook or Google+.• Create a workplace that has employees, work partners, and peers engaged in activities on the Internet and make sure workers don’t take up too much time when on the internet.• Reduce hours for people with medical conditions, such as HIV/AIDS, with more focus on reducing time spent on activities on the web and in the workplace.• Ensure that employees are never given extra breaks.• Do not change the ways employees work on a day-to-day basis, such as on the website.• Work at low-stress jobs, such as office management.• Create a workplace that focuses more on the physical work environment, such as being on the job and doing other work or working at a home or office, than on work done in the home. The lack of working at rest sites and the work at work sites (such as social networking sites) are also detrimental to employees’ physical and mental health.Employee-specific action that works better can help employees improve work conditions, increase productivity, and keep them productive in work.• Ensure they are paid when they leave workplace.• Strengthen workplace culture to encourage less time for work and less time for non-work activities.• Create a work/life partnership for employees, such as a mutual time off at a time.• Provide the employees full access to resources, such as online training and support, without fear the employer might shut them down by asking to leave.• Make employees take breaks and get rest outside to rest in their homes.• Create an online training program that employees can take for paid holidays and other holidays.• Create a workplace that allows employees to earn time off on weekends.• Make employees pay more for a business-oriented holiday, such as vacation.• Increase productivity by providing employees a high level of nutrition while they are taking breaks or for extended periods.• Provide the employees with training on their health and lifestyle (including exercise, sleep, rest).• Ensure the employees have enough time to rest in the same time as they stay in the workplace and during their working hours (including time off on holidays). Employer-specific training can help employees improve their physical
Mobile phone is another device that allow empolyees the opportunity of theft of time. Most if not all mobile phones allows the user to access facebook, twitter and the internet. Ten or twenty years ago, there were employees that would talk on company phone that was non-work related. Now the phone has gone high-tech and mobile. Instead of talking, employees can continue to communicate discretely by texting and going on the internet. I see no way of managing mobile phones, as employee rights may be violated. One way to manage it is a policy not to use your personal mobile phone at work. For family emergencies, the employees family can call the work place.
The third huge factor is smoking. Smokers take up to 5-10 minutes to smoke a cigarette and taking smoke breaks two to three time an hour and that adds up to 20-30 minutes of theft of time per hour. Some employers have smoke areas while others have no smoking on company property. One way to manage smokers is to have a no smoking policy. If employees that smoke want to smoke than they would have to walk off the property to smoke. This would also assist smokers from quiting.
2. What does the word Whistleblower mean (legally speaking)? Give an example of whistleblowing.Legally speaking, Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 protects a federal employee who reports agency misconduct. Whistleblowers files a complaint they believe a federal agency is in violation of the law such as gross waste of funds or danger to the public.
An example of whistleblowing is the case of Julia Davis, a former Custom and Boarder Patrol Officer reported a national security violation of Homeland Security at the San Ysdiro Port of Entry by allowing entry of twenty-three aliens from alleged terrorist countries during Fourth of July when the terrorist threat was high. Officer Davis was harrassed with two malicous prosecutions, false imprisonment, harrasement of her family and a raid by the Department of Homeland Security of her home.
In 2010, Homeland security settled on a lawsuit by Ms. Davis and several high-ranking officials in Homeland Security was force to resign because of the heavy handedness they used on Ms. Davis. The federal Government makes the law and the federal Government breaks them.
ReferenceJulia Davis V. Department of Homeland Security (2010) United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court.3. “Retaliation” has become one of the most often cited reasons for employees filing charges with the EEOC against their employers.