The American objection to Just Cause is deficient. Supposedly, the American system of private property and freedom of contract rests on fairness and autonomy. This contradicts their practice of contract at will. Just Cause should be practiced on two counts: firstly, it is more ethical -- it would prevent against unfair dismissal; it may be less costly -- it will prevent against costly litigation where employers will be fined post facto for wrongful dismissal. Precisely how Just Cause should be implemented is discussion or another article. I personally agree with McCall. Arbitrate dismissal can result in a situation where the new employer arbitrarily dismisses a dedicated and capable employee based on personal judgment alone. The personal judgment can often be faulty and unethical including instances of age, gender, appearance, and so forth -- any of which can disturb the employer. The employer is legally not allowed to dismiss on these factors, but he can work his way around this doing so in an innocuous manner or framing the case so that it seems as though he is dismissing based on other factors. Moreover, the employee may be too old, poor, helpless, naive, or in other ways incapacitated to take on her powerful employee. He -- and his organization -- intimidates her. It is a case of strong against weak, and the strong often win even if they have to turn to absurd strategies to do so. A case in kind is that of the 68-year-old employee of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage who was fired last week. The justification: in 1963, when a teenager, he plopped a cardboard cutout of a dime in...
Eggers has no other blemishes on his record and is reported to be a fine, hard-working employee but banks are relying on new rules that anyone convicted of a crime involving dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering must be fired regardless of the type of crime committed. The result: "Across the country, banks have fired thousands of workers as a result of the new rules" (the Hawk Eye. (Sep. 11, 2012)). And much of this is not only ridiculous, but also wrongful. And ultimately (since they are often dismissing their most dedicated workers) detrimental to corruption and detrimental to country since unethical and foolish.
United States and around the globe on the use of Genetically Engineered Food (GEF) indicate the rate at which people are very worried about GEF. According to Bereano (20011, pg. 279) we have different cultural and religion background which most occasions used to determine the kind of food we eat. There are a good number of people who are vegetarians who are required to know what they eat, whether
Social & Political Environment of Business Protectionist policies include policies such as tariffs (taxes) upon imported goods and quotas, the latter of which limits the number of imported goods which can be brought into the country. The intention of protectionist policies is to protect local industries and jobs from competition. From the perspective of a poorer nation, protectionism can have certain advantages. A developing nation frequently does not have the resources to
It was irresponsible for banks to operate from a position of absentee management, and the careless ownership enabled reckless conduct from their "agents" who ran the day-to-day operation. While some blame must be placed on the public for continuing to spend at outrageous rates, the bank itself promoted and enabled such activity. Blankfein's argument that no one had been arrested is irrelevant since the issue at hand is whether
Analysis Annabelle Lever makes a very strong argument for her case, and is ultimately convincing in her assertion that the degree of manipulation necessary to create a patentable gene warrants their continued patentable nature without ethical fears entering the picture. While it is important to respect life and the building blocks of life and to ensure that these building blocks do not suddenly fall under ridiculous legal restrictions or controls, it
Issue 11: Is Employer Monitoring of Employee Social Media Justified? Summary of Sides The rise of social media and the near ubiquity of its use has led to an increasing trend of employers screening potential hires and monitoring existing employees through their social media activity on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The ethicality of such monitoring has been questioned by ethical scholars Brian Elzweig and Donna K. Pepples argue that employers have
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