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The year is 2025 and the U.S. Supreme Court has declared all laws  prohibiting discrimination in the workplace to be unconstitutional.  In  its opinion, however, the Supreme Court made clear that employers could  voluntarily adopt policies and procedures prohibiting any and all forms  of discrimination in the workplace. The Supreme Court also made clear  that employers could voluntarily adopt hiring practices to diversify  their workforces provided such practices did not include express  preferences based upon immutable characteristics.
 

You have been  hired as a consultant by a large, nationwide retailer to examine the  business case for ensuring that all of the employee protections are  found within the federal anti-discrimination laws, as well as the  business case for prohibiting any other forms of discrimination in the  workplace.
 

Write a four to six (4-6) page report in which you:

1. Analyze the benefits and costs of voluntarily prohibiting three to  five (3-5) federal forms of discrimination prohibited under the federal  anti-discrimination laws.
2. Discuss the benefits and costs of voluntarily prohibiting a form of  discrimination not covered by any of the federal anti-discrimination  laws.
3. State the benefits and costs of voluntarily adopting hiring and promotion practices designed to diversify the workforce.
4. Evaluate the ethical considerations of not voluntarily prohibiting  the forms of discrimination laws examined in the first part of your  report. Next, determine the ethical considerations of not voluntarily  adopting hiring and promotion practices to diversify the workforce.
5. Provide a final recommendation to this retailer on whether or not  they should ensure all, part, or none of the employee protections  examined in the first part of your report. Your recommendation should  also include whether or not the retailer should adopt hiring and  promotion practices designed to diversify the workplace. Be sure to  include a rationale for your recommendation along with an explanation  for any rejections of contrary positions or other pertinent  considerations.
6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.  Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required  assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze and apply the concepts of ethical decision making, corporate governance and  corporate social responsibility.
• Analyze and evaluate the employment-at-will doctrine and the statutory protections afforded employees.
• Analyze and evaluate issues in modern contract law.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
• Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanic

Assignment Objectives: 

1. Understand Unions.

2. Understand Collective Bargaining.

Purpose: 

The purpose of this assignment is to provide advice based on two fact patterns that include several legal problems as they relate to collective bargaining and unions.

Assignment Description:  Please read the following (two) scenarios and respond to the questions below:

1. A large company is planning to downsize.  A consultant suggests the following:

A) It makes sense to focus on one of your unionized plants.  We suggest that you reduce the 300 employees at that plant to 100. Some of the components that you produce at that plant can be made at your non-union South Carolina plant. 

B) Since you will be terminating 200 employees, I suggest that you terminate 50 employees per week, This way, you won’t have to worry about any legal requirements for providing notice.

C) If you want to be safe, you can send a letter to employees the week before you begin the first wave of terminations, telling them that the long-term prospects for the plant are not good.

D) Let the supervisors use their best judgment about who should be retained.  They know best.

E) Consider offering an early retirement plan to generate some voluntary turnover, but don’t get people’s hopes up by announcing it before all the details are in place.

F) If you offer an early retirement plan, require that all employees who accept it waive their ADEA rights.

G) Taking early retirement is an important decision, so give employees two weeks to think over the offer.

What are the legal problems with the consultant’s advice? What would be better advice?

1. A manager hears from a supervisor that a union organizing campaign is underway in his company. The manager hastily contacts his attorney.  He receives the following advice:

A) Identify the “ring leaders” and order them to come to your office for a lengthy “discussion” with management. It is important that you make it known that you are on to their game and won’t stand for it;

B) In our experience, it usually all boils down to a matter of money. Tell employees that you’ll give them a raise if they don’t unionize. Or, if you’re really concerned, go ahead and hike their pay now;

C) Setup employee involvement teams If employees say that they want more “voice“ . They can make all of the suggestions that they want and vent some steam;

D) Make sure that you don’t allow any talk about unions in the workplace.  And, by all means, make certain that organizers from the union don’t put fliers on windshields in the parking lot or get anywhere near company property;

E) It’s a good idea to require all employees to attend weekly meetings. At these meetings, managers should remind employees of all the benefits that they have already received without a union and tell them that a union would upset the family-like atmosphere in the company;

F) Make sure that you tell employees that the union is corrupt and its leaders are in jail.  It doesn’t matter whether any of that is true;

G) Also, tell employees that voting for a union is like voting to tax yourself. Once there is a union, everyone has to pay dues, regardless of whether they ever wanted the union;

H) It’s an extreme measure, but if necessary, fire a few of the employees who are the most pro-union. That should definitely take the steam out of the effort.

Evaluate the advice given to this employer.  What, if any, of it is bad legal advice? Why? What should the employer do instead?

Parameters: 

Using APA formatting, write an essay of around 500 words (excluding the title and reference page).  All papers will be graded for content, clarity, grammar/spelling, and appropriate use of APA formatting guidelines. A minimum of two references must be utilized.

Due Sunday Night at 11:59p.m.

Answer the following questions:

Describe the challenges faced by US Customs and Border Protection agents attempting to secure the border. Be sure to include:

What is the functional equivalent of the border?

What is the Fourth amendment exception as it pertains to border searches?

How are seizure statistics used to justify the mission of border security?

What are “open markets and closed borders” as it pertains to smuggling, free trade, and border enforcement?

What are the challenges of facilitating legal border crossings while maintaining secure borders?

What has been the economic impact of terrorism on U.S. and Global Markets since 9/11?

What has been the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) agreements on cross border trade in North America?

Paper must be 4 pages not to exceed 6!

Literacy Lesson Plan

Create a developmentally appropriate literacy lesson plan that supports language and literacy experiences.

Include the following in your lesson plan, using the Lesson Plan Template:

1. Identify the lesson objectives.
2. Describe the alignment with language and literacy standards.
3. Describe the lesson procedure. This should be detailed so that another teacher could use this to implement the lesson.
4. Explain strategies to support children learning a second language.
5. Explain modifications for students with special needs.
6. Identify appropriate materials.  Use the textbook and at least one outside resource, with citations in APA format.
7. Create an assessment plan.  How will you measure improvement?

It is required that you use the Lesson Plan Template to complete this portion of your assignment. While certain components of the lesson plan template are highlighted in the steps above, it is required that you complete all sections of the template.  It is suggested that you utilize the Early childhood and child development: Lesson plan handbook as a guide for how to more effectively plan this lesson.  Your assignment must be formatted according to APA style, citing two to three scholarly resources (including the course text).  Since you will be using a template, it is not necessary to include a title and cover page.

When you submit your assignments each week, they will be returned to you with specific feedback.  This feedback should be used to revise the assignment for the Final Project.  Please make the necessary corrections and save for Week Five use in the Final Project.