Essays on Occupational Safety And Health 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 ...

Employees training in an organization is very essential for the success of the organization. Different countries have employed employee training to ensure the increase in the production level of the organization. Training is important as it enables the new employees in the organization to learn the different activities conducted in the organization. Working with Coca-Cola Company in the training and development of employees helps to understand the importance of the employees training in a global company. Coca cola is a global company supplying soft drinks across the world. The company has employed the use of employee's training to ensure ...

Question 1

The Americans with Disabilities Act, Equal Employment Opportunities, Equal Pay Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act are all important employment laws. The employment laws as much as they are good for the community in that they help in covering the minority groups they act as a limitation to hiring managers. The Americans with Disabilities Act law can limits employers from choosing physically fit employees for their job opportunities available. In the work environment, with the law in practice, employers are mandated to provide equal employment opportunities for disabled people who limit the chances ...

Introduction

Occupational hazards can affect all workers not withstanding gender, age or type of occupation. It is one of the major problems faced by workers and their employers especially those who are engaged in occupation that require the operation of machineries or exposure to hazardous environments. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), 270 million workers every year suffer from occupational injuries while 160 million have contacted work-related diseases. It is only logical to think that work related accidents happen due to factors such as poor working conditions, insufficient training, lack of protective gears and of course, machine and human ...

The occupational safety and health act of 1970 is an act enacted in the United States. The law was enacted to ensure that workers in any company are safe and healthy when engaged in their daily duties. The law provides for compensation of any employee who is injured, dies or is wrongfully restricted from duty if the cause is in the line of duty. In the recommendations to the manager of Elora Jean & company, safety policy in the company will contain the following issues. Training of employees on the hazards that are likely to occur in the course ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of bullying in the workplace. It was established that Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Healthy Workplace Bill regulate interpersonal relationship and prohibit bullying in the workplace. The types of bullies and their activities are the focal points of the research paper. Since workplace assault poses a tremendous threat to physical and psychological well-being of victims, mental, emotional and physical consequences of bullying were given a particular focus in the concluding part of the project. Keywords: bullying, workplace, victim, physical, mental, abuse It so happens that people are split into two ...

American Employment Related Laws and Regulations

The Human Resource Department deals with several legal and safety laws as well as requirements that an organization must abide by in order to prevent law suits. This is also because the legal, safety and regulatory frameworks have serious implications on the human resource department. The laws and regulations ensure that all local and international employees have equal and fair treatment in the course of their employment. The rights of employees and employers are adequately covered by several distinct entities or institutions such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and National Labor Relations, among others. ...

Introduction

Labor relations law is State and Federal laws that are applied in representing employees. The law represents employees in matters pertaining collective bargaining and also employer-union practices. The labor relations laws, the National Labour Relations Act in combination with the federal and state labor laws are responsible for making the legal counsel necessary. The structure of the workplace, the responsibility of both employees and employer and conflict resolution at workplace is outlined in the labor and employment laws. At times, labor laws are contained in the federal regulations where provide the necessary direction to employers and employees on ...

Introduction

Safety has always been a major concern within the labor department. In the case of employee and employer labor issues have gone on throughout history. After the abolishment of slavery, and the passing of the Equal Rights and Discrimination legislations, issues involved within the workplace have dealt with safety and health. In 1893 Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act that became the first federal statutes that required safety equipment, although applied only to the railroad equipment, within the workplace. Soon later in 1910 Congress passed the federal Bureau of Mines after there were highly publicized deadly mine explosions and collapses. ...

Secretary of Labor v. Cities Service Oil Co.and theOccupational Safety & Health Review Commission

Introduction

This appeals court case is about five individuals – four employed by Cities Service Oil Co. and one employed by an independent contractor – of whom four died as a result of inhalation of hydrogen sulfide, while cleaning so-called water knockout tanks belonging to the oil company and located on the Stoltenberg lease near Holyrood, Kansas. The case came to the appeals court because the Secretary of Labor petitioned for review of the original decision by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission which had issued citations and ...