Select a company that has violated an HR law. Imagine that you are a HR manager within that organization. You have been tasked with developing a training to help prevent future violations of the HR law. Compile research and information to include in your training. Address the following in 700 to 1,050 words from your research: Summarize the situation. Discuss the law’s requirements. Include information regarding what the law does, how it is executed, and the execution gaps of your selected organization. Recommend steps that organizational leadership should take in order to avoid challenges such as this one from happening in the future. Cite your outside sources with APA formatting.

 

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Situation

In 2015, a national labor relation board judge came up with a ruling stating that the employment laws of the wireless carry T-Mobile despoiled the United States’ employment policy through restricting employees’ capacity to classify and other labor rights thus setting a potentially significant pattern for other unions. Some of the strategic plans in question stopped employees from constant communication with one another regarding the earnings, speaking to the information media on workplace setting, and from communicating with co-workers to gather evidence against disciplinary charges (Mossholder, Richardson & Settoon, 2011). Moreover, the administrative judge Dibble discovered that out of the 13 polices subjected to the litigation; eleven of them were illegal even though the institution argued that the judgment made was on a technical problem in the law that associates with policies that are popular to various businesses across the nation. The labor officials argued that the verdict made could have enormous ramifications since it was sweeping the nature. The case, therefore, consolidated various complaints about T-Mobile facilities across the nation.

As observed by Lake, M. (2014), any business member together with the human resource division should understand the significance of creating and maintaining a good working relationship in keeping the success of the business. It is also important to acknowledge that several problems are likely to emerge in any institution or workplace; thus, all stakeholders and employees need to embrace themselves and deal appropriately with the issues that arise. Resolving the labor issues at the company will encourage common operations within the business as labor laws including the national labor relations policy are essential in bringing the needed peace of mind to both the union and the non-union workers. These laws if resolved effectively, it will lead to the lawful negotiation of employee’s issues including the collective bargaining agreements that outlines the terms and conditions of employment.

Laws Violated and Execution Gaps

T-Mobile that is graded as one of America’s biggest wireless carries violated federal labor policies through unlawfully restricting workers from engaging in essential discussions about workplace issues including wages and suppressing their efforts to organize. The ruling caps the communication workers of the United State’s long-standing conflict with the T-Mobile and many of its shareholders over the rights and freedom of employees to organize and execute (Mathis & Jackson, 2011). The judgment also exposed the intended campaign by the business’s America’s management to break the regulation systematically and on a countrywide scale, stopping employees from carrying out their right to organize and bargain collectively. The laws typically allow employees to freely interact and share out problems emerging from the daily business operations and areas that ought to be improved.

Regarding the execution process, even if the organization does not engage in employing unionized employees, it is still subjected to the requirements of the national labor relation act and thus must be executed and maintained. The law applies to majority or private workers, and gives workers the right to unionize, collectively bargain, and be part of concerted activities for their “mutual aid and protection” commonly referred to as Section 7 rights (Nankervis et al. 2013). However, the organization is still faced with several execution gaps including the threat to become fodder for the broader debate over the plight of the United States workers. There has also been a tide of populist anger that keeps on rising in both the political parties against what is popularly known as a culture of uncontrolled corporate excess in the country. Senator Sanders whose presidential campaign was based on the idea to degrade the corporate efforts recently decried the situation at the company.

Avoiding Challenges in a Business

Business leaders who take a consistent and detailed approach to work laws, human resource documentation, and management training can be less likely to find themselves facing an employment lawsuit. Therefore, some of the best practices organizational leadership can initiate in avoiding legal and other worker-initiated litigations include staying updated with the federal and labor standards act (Lake, 2014). As a leader, it is one’s responsibility to adhere to all the rules and regulations initiated by the organization together will applicable state and local wage and hours policies. It is also essential to comply with discrimination regulations since employers are prohibited under many federal rules ranging from discriminating in employment by the safeguarded class.

Moreover, organizational leaders are expected to keep consistent worker regulations and train workers on their expected roles and rights. Businesses should come up with precise policies for workers conduct in the workplace (Mossholder, Richardson & Settoon, 2011). The systems created and training programs should also be consistent across the board; making exceptions to the laws for a favored worker or singling out an individual you do not like for particular disciplinary action. This will automatically result in allegations of work discrimination or violations of anti-discrimination rules and worker lawsuit. Once a policy is documented, a leader must put into action and enforce it fairly with all legal conditions protected thus making the relationships existing between workers and leaders conducive for maximum output.

 

References

Lake, M. (2014). Organizing hypocrisy: providing legal accountability for human rights violations in areas of limited statehood. International Studies Quarterly, 58(3), 515-526.

Mathis, R. L., & Jackson, J. H. (2011). Human resource management: Essential perspectives. Cengage Learning.

Mossholder, K. W., Richardson, H. A., & Settoon, R. P. (2011). Human resource systems and helping in organizations: A relational perspective. Academy of Management Review, 36(1), 33-52.

Nankervis, A. R., Baird, M., Coffey, J., & Shields, J. (2013). Human resource management: strategy and practice.