Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper examining the effect of legal, safety, and regulatory requirements on the human resource process as they relate to the following statement:
Common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by litigation.
Explain why you agree or disagree with the above statement.
Focus on employee-related regulations established by the U.S., such as, Department of Labor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Include a minimum of three references. (Websites such as Wikipedia and ask.com are NOT considered references)
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
DO NOT QUOTE any material for this assignment except when using the laws and regulations to help develop your answer…use your own words to show evidence of clearly understanding the material
TO BE RE-WRITTEN FROM THE SCRATCH
Common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by litigation. This is a true statement since it depicts the effects of legislations as well as regulatory agencies in the US on the employer employee relationship. Litigations are slowly taking over the place of reasoning and a sense of humanity that once characterized the relationship between the employer and the employee. Decision making in the work place is now being informed by the existing laws as well as the requirements of regulatory agencies such as Merit Systems Protection Board, Disciplinary Appeals Board, Department of Labor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Department of Homeland Security (Covington & Decker, 2002). The decision to either punish or reward an employee can no longer be entirely subject to the employer’s common sense judgment but largely dependent on existing legislations and requirements of regulatory agencies.
The Fair Labor Standards Act, for instance, gives guidelines on the minimum wages that an employee in either the private or public sector is to be given (Player & Mack, 2004). . The wages and labor division further regulates the payment of people from other nationality who have been permitted to work within the US. By giving such guidelines, the department of labor has denied the employer an opportunity to use common sense and logical assessment of the employee’s responsibility in determining the rate of pay to the employee. The employer might be compelled to pay his or her employees…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. regulatory requirements on the human resource process………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….