Essays on Family Medical Leave Act

Employment law has a multitude of purpose in defining the relationship, agreement, and legal obligation of employers and employees. According to Edwards and Robinson (2012) employment law is the negotiated relationships between employees and employers”(p 4). These negotiations highlight acceptably terms related to occupation, expectation and contracts that showcase the roles, responsibilities, and task completion of employees, as well as the wages, salaries, safe workplace, and other expectancies from the employer. Aside from expectation, there are legal ramifications that employers must follow on a federal and local level. For the sake of this paper, the federal level will ...

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Conflicts in the workplace are common and team leaders and management need to have the necessary knowledge of causes, indicators and skills to manage them. The conflicts can either be positive contributing towards realization of better results or negative deterring productivity and output.The passing of the FMLA led to many organizations re drafting their labor policies in order to be in line with the government requirements. Conflict in teams is a common occurrence and team leaders need to possess the necessary knowledge on conflict management. Conflicts are caused by various issues such as, members having different goals, using different ...

FEDERAL LAWS

Fair Labor Standards Act The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 lays down federal standards on minimum wage, payment for overtime, keeping of records and young people employment for both part time and full-time employees (Nicholson, 2008). Attempts to endorse legislation regarding the number of working hours and overtime pay started in the early nineteenth century, although, Congress did not succeed in adopting the Fair Labor Standards Act pending 1938.

Equal Pay Act

The Equal Pay Act became established in 1963 by federal law with an aim of preventing wage disparities that based on sex. The Equal Pay Act, also, ...