Question

Employment Law:

An internal audit conducted by the Vice President of Human Resources indicates that a bias has occurred in the company in which women, and particularity women of color, have negatively been impacted related to training & development opportunities, career development, and sexual harassment.

Prepare a training document for management that highlights major employment laws, report processes, management’s responsibility, and employee remedies.

Answer 1

The objective of this training document is describe the major employment laws, management's responsibilities and employee remedies in case of discrimination at workplace.

The major employment laws are as follows:

• The Fair Labour Standard Act (FLSA): This law sets the minimum wages need to pay by the employer to the employee and also limits the type of duties and hours for the teens to work.
• The Equal Pay Act (EPA): This law prohibits the unequal pay for same type of work done by the female employees. It states that every employee whether a female or a male should be paid equally for same position and same type of work.
• The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA): It states an employer should provide a safe environment or place for their employees at work.
• Title VII of Civil Rights Act: This Act prohibits the discrimination done at the time of firing, hiring or pay based on the religion, national origin or sex. It also states that there should be no sexual harassment at the workplace.

Report Processes:

• ?The reporting procedure will inlcude a complaint that needs to be filed by the harrsed employee.
• Investigation needs to be done by analyzing the situation and each and every aspect of that situation.
• An immediate an effective action will be take as a remedial step to protect the employee from such kind of harassment.

  
Management's responsibilities will include the following:

• Management need to pay attention to the complaint and should address it properly.
• Management should develop a written policy against such kind of harassment that includes company's equal policy for every employee.  

Employee remedies during harassment:

• An employer after finding the responsible person for harassment should fire him or her immediately.
• An employee can get the front pay and compensatory damages