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August 25, 2012 SYNTHESIS PAPER ON EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITIES AND EMPLOYER RIGHTS

JOHN MICHAEL G. FAVILA Ethical Foundation and Corporate Social Responsibility

Synthesis Paper on Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights

By

John Michael G. Favila

In this paper the rights and responsibilities of both employees and employers are compared and

contrasted.

Every country has their own individual ways of doing business that works for them. Much of their

customs and business ethics form from their own cultural background and traditions. Although, the countries

have differences on how they tend to run their business in regards to employee and employer responsibilities,

they also have similarities as well. In the United States employees experience such things as breaks, leaves,

benefits, vacations, safety, and pay. All of these are important aspects of an employee's stabilization with the

company.

There are a number of laws available to accommodate each and every one of these benefits of an

employee to a company. Things such as equal opportunity and discrimination laws are greatly enforced in the

workplaces of businesses in the United States to ensure that all bases are covered and everyone feels safe and

protected in the business atmosphere. Freedom of speech is highly enforced and ideas and opinions of

employees are taken into consideration in order to keep things running fair and smoothly. These natural rights

are rights that are usually encouraged in the workplace to help the employee feel like they are more of an asset

and a part of the company's success. Each organization has their own unique policy and procedures in how to

adequately run their businesses.

The rights of employees and responsibilities of employers in the European nation are important and

their needs to be a consciousness of minimum wage laws, pensions, disability, medical insurance, work at

home opportunities, and also retirement. In the United States background checks has played a very important

part of the hiring process in a business for years. Conducting background checks is still a relatively new concept

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for employers in the European Union. American companies have been doing this to uncover resume fraud,

screen out potentially dangerous employees, and ascertain whether there has been a past history of criminal or

other dangerous behavior.

In Europe, serious concerns have been raised regarding privacy issues, what information can be

legitimately asked and obtained from former employers, what kind of background information can be

collected, and what is the potential risk of data protection liability. (employmentmentalalliance.com)

So, there are procedures that the United States have adopted that European Union are just now

implementing, this can also go the other way around, United States adopting some of the European Unions

workplace procedures such as working from home. This has been going on quite some time in the European

Union and United States is just catching on to this convenient work arrangement. In the United States the laws

allow everyone to remain free, however, in the Europe decisions are made based on the European Union. Both

the United States and EU have health and retirement benefits, safety procedures, pay, and leave policies. Both

these countries are the same due to the fact that they both practice individualism.

If someone were to file a formal complaint with a government agency his/her claim would most likely

be pushed to the back burner in regards to urgency. Being that government agencies receive so many

complaints on a daily basis that require immediate attention and are more severe than the complaint that

he/she is filing, his/her complaint will most likely render a lower level of importance and be investigated on a

basis that is convenient for the government agency. Cases such as harassment, discrimination, and substance

abuse would take a preference over the one that would be filing. He/she would have to pay for her own court

costs or mediator and the company would reimburse his/her for lost time with the company. In all actuality

government agencies tend to back up the company more and lean towards their favor. This is usually done in

order to maintain a stable economy.

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I believe that both United States and European Union supervisors would react in the same manner. They would

be caring and compassionate and adhere to individual concern. They probably would attempt to conduct their

own research of someone observations. This is very important to take an employee's problems and accusations

into consideration because by doing so, this will save the company money being that it is being misused by

employees. Both companies want to save and retain money so this is a big deal to the company. The

supervisors would then confront the supervisor that he/she confronted before and come up with a plan of

action as to how to handle company time and retention. The accused supervisor may even have to take

management training refresher courses in order to keep company policy and procedures fresh in his/her mind

and be reminded of how to conduct his/herself as an authoritative figure within the company.

The best course of action of the concern people is to learn about the different languages and customs

in order to better understand and appreciate them. He/She should remain within the company being that

he/she only been there for 4 months and wait to see if any changes come about in regards to her complaint. If

no changes come about I would advise his/her to keep tabs on her complaint filing with the government agency

to keep up with the status of it. Until then, remain ethical and follow the company policies and procedures,

don't fall in with the unethical behavior. I would advise the person to stay with the company for now and in the

future he/she may find something better. It will all pay off in his/her favor in the long run.

References

(2010). Conducting Employee Background Checks In The EU: Is It Legal? Is It Advisable?

Retrieved on November 20, 2011 from http://www.employmentmentalalliance.com/webinars/Conducting-

Employee-Background- Checks-in-the-EU