Regulatory Requirements
Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements
As a society we have many laws, and individuals departments that enforce those laws. There are criminal, civil, contract, family, constitutional, common, and labor laws, criminal law handles crime and civil law handles most of the other laws mention above. With labor laws handle by the U.S Department of Labor also known as DOL administers and enforces over 180 federal laws that are for just the workplace, and those laws are in place for the protection of employers and their employees (DOL, n.d.)
In any organization the Human Resource department has to perform and act under legal and safety laws as well as regulations requirements (Administrator, 2012). This is done to avoid any law …show more content…
It also means making sure employees are not threaten, be on the lookout for illness, and injury (Administrator, 2012). Workplace safety is regulated and supported by workers compensation laws which are handled at a state level, and the Occupational Safety and Health act of 1970 which is handled on a federal level (Administrator, 2012). Workers compensation is a law that helps employees if they are injured or become sick due to work or at work, and OSHA is specific on the work environment guidelines and aspect (Peterson, n.d.). If an employer does not follow OSHA rules they can endanger their employee’s lives, which can lead to a civil suit, criminal charges, or both (Administrator, 2012). Following the rules should be the obvious this to do, but sometime making the company you work for happy over rides caring for others. This makes people wonder if “Common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by …show more content…
I do not know how much I agree with this statement or how much I disagree with it. I have been with organization that has individuals who have no common sense, but compassion for some, and I know of a place where they are more concerned with litigation over all else. They are more concerned about getting rid of the people who care about the company, its product, and the people who work for the organization. I have seen how those that do not think like upper management are guided out and paid off to keep them from mentioning the practices of the organization, they did not place the employee in jeopardy, but they did not have certain employee best interest at heart, and those in Human Resource who handles the exit of terminated employee’s do nothing about the types of reason people are leaving. It is more about keeping their jobs over the over morale of the organization and its people. I guess after reviewing what I have stated I would have to say that common sense and passion are what is missing in the workplace, people can no longer be sick and miss days without the worry of losing their job. This promotes an unhealthy work place environment, because one sick person pass on their illness to others, and instead of
As a society we have many laws, and individuals departments that enforce those laws. There are criminal, civil, contract, family, constitutional, common, and labor laws, criminal law handles crime and civil law handles most of the other laws mention above. With labor laws handle by the U.S Department of Labor also known as DOL administers and enforces over 180 federal laws that are for just the workplace, and those laws are in place for the protection of employers and their employees (DOL, n.d.)
In any organization the Human Resource department has to perform and act under legal and safety laws as well as regulations requirements (Administrator, 2012). This is done to avoid any law …show more content…
It also means making sure employees are not threaten, be on the lookout for illness, and injury (Administrator, 2012). Workplace safety is regulated and supported by workers compensation laws which are handled at a state level, and the Occupational Safety and Health act of 1970 which is handled on a federal level (Administrator, 2012). Workers compensation is a law that helps employees if they are injured or become sick due to work or at work, and OSHA is specific on the work environment guidelines and aspect (Peterson, n.d.). If an employer does not follow OSHA rules they can endanger their employee’s lives, which can lead to a civil suit, criminal charges, or both (Administrator, 2012). Following the rules should be the obvious this to do, but sometime making the company you work for happy over rides caring for others. This makes people wonder if “Common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by …show more content…
I do not know how much I agree with this statement or how much I disagree with it. I have been with organization that has individuals who have no common sense, but compassion for some, and I know of a place where they are more concerned with litigation over all else. They are more concerned about getting rid of the people who care about the company, its product, and the people who work for the organization. I have seen how those that do not think like upper management are guided out and paid off to keep them from mentioning the practices of the organization, they did not place the employee in jeopardy, but they did not have certain employee best interest at heart, and those in Human Resource who handles the exit of terminated employee’s do nothing about the types of reason people are leaving. It is more about keeping their jobs over the over morale of the organization and its people. I guess after reviewing what I have stated I would have to say that common sense and passion are what is missing in the workplace, people can no longer be sick and miss days without the worry of losing their job. This promotes an unhealthy work place environment, because one sick person pass on their illness to others, and instead of