Minimum Wage Reports Samples For Students

Introduction

Employment laws are set to protect human rights and ensure fair treatment of employees by their employers. Companies are required to adhere to federal and state employment laws (Guerin & DelPo, 2013). To improve working conditions and morale of the employees, organizations are encouraged to follow employment laws, governing codes, and set expectations of conduct within the workplace (Twomey, 2010). Since DPG is a manufacturing organization, it is required to adhere to all provisions of the constitutions (federal and state) Source: (Goldman, Corrada & Goldman 2011). Critical laws to be followed are detailed below. Overall, it is in DPG interest to ...

DPB Current policy:

The recent policy changes have introduced that on the DPB, mothers will be required to start looking for part time jobs when the child turns 3 and full time jobs once the child turns 6. This would enable the mother to gain financial support for her child without the help of the father of her child. But this policy was highly criticized. The Ministry of social development contested that by working for 20 hours the mother could go off the benefit. Now, assuming that they were going for a job at the current minimum wage, what the MSD is effectively ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/06/286861541/does-raising-the-minimum-wage-kill-jobs
This article is a reaction to the move by the president to increase the minimum wage. The gist or the author’s argument is that increasing the minimum wage with cause employers to retrench and cut jobs. The author presents the evidence in an argumentative manner. Studies from a congressional budget office show that an increase in the minimum wage would result in a loss of over 500000 jobs. On the other hand it would increase hourly wages for over 16 million people.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/21/292385791/the-numbers-are-getting-better-the-people-are-getting-worse
This article reviews citizen apathy to the situation in Greece. After the financial turmoil ...

After 20th century, organizations have exhibited a revolution in the workplace environment and the way of doing work. Until that time, emphasis was on individual responsibilities, duties and accountability. With increasing complexity of business operations, organizations have started embracing teamwork and have adopted multitudes of ways to keep the workforce motivated. Now a days, more emphasis is on keeping the employees satisfied and happy so that they can optimally utilize their skills to enhance the productivity.
This report discusses different ways of employees' motivation and charts out a detailed motivation plan for the company under consideration. Despite the fact that WooWoo ( ...

Workforce Planning in the Australian Retail Industry

Socio-Economic Profile
With a strong economic development, Australia reached an average economic growth of 3.5% each year for 20 years, remaining strong and keeping its inflation under control during the economic recession (Index Mundi, Australia, 2013).
The country’s natural resources attracted many investors over the years and being an open market let to attracting high foreign investments, stimulating its economic growth, making it more flexible and dynamic (Index Mundi, Australia, 2013).
Regarding the country’s social profile, its early population was composed of British and Irish citizens; after the World War II Australia initiated an aggressive campaign of ...

- Introduction
Employment laws meant to cushion the employees against any form of oppression they may face at their workplaces (Cabrelli 2010). In UK, these employment laws differed in that workers and employees enjoyed different protection, the employees enjoys greater rights than workers. Despite the difference, every person working for an employer is entitled to national minimum wage, protection from discrimination and right not to work for more than 48 hours per week. The employment laws apply universally whether the employees and workers are permanent or working on a temporary basis (Langley 2011). Employment regulations reviewed each year particularly ...

The City and State

Macro Environmental Factors: Adidas
The two main macro environmental factors impacting Adidas are legal and socio-cultural. In 2015, Adidas brand faced financial turmoil due to several factors, which led to a drop in its sales (Peterson, 2015). The executives failed to create the products that were supposed to appeal to changing taste of the American customers (Peterson, 2015). Adidas has not been as successful as Nike in signing sports celebrities for endorsements. Nike signed a deal with Basketball superstar Michael Jordan and today the Jordan brand is one of its most profitable subsidiaries. Adidas is yet to achieve that ...

Abstract

This paper is the thorough external analysis of McDonald Corporation. In this analysis, first the short history of the foundation of McDonald has been described. The paper also focuses on some of the major factors that have made the company the largest food chain in the world. The paper also interprets the vision and mission of the company and how the company’s overall strategies are involved in their mission and vision statements. The PESTEL analysis of the company is done in the paper. The paper also discusses about the competitions in food chain industry and their threat to ...

The president of the United States of America is required under Article two of Section three of the United States Constitution to give a state of the union address to the nation. It is usually delivered once a year in January or February. The tradition began in 1790 when George Washington delivered a State of the union address before a joint sitting of the congress, usually in the House of Representatives. Thomas Jefferson discontinued the tradition, arguing that it was too monarchical in nature and it was replaced by a written report by the president. In the twentieth century President Woodrow Wilson re-established the ...

Introduction

In order to understand the role of unions in workplace health and safety, the workplace health and safety incidents need to be studied. In spite of the fact that colossal efforts have been made to improve the work place safety for employees still the number of casualties have been currently reported to be around 2 million and 330 million accidents had taken place at work stations. Among all other divisions BWI are the most unsafe ones. Construction sector has the highest number of casualties compared to other large industrial sectors and reportedly 100,000 fatalities take place per year ...