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3.- LABOR UNION AND LABOR LAW

Understanding the Legal Environment

Complying and understanding HR regulations is very important because it helps you: do the right thing, be aware of your firm’s legal and HR limitations and minimize any potential liability.

Being compliant with the law it’s the right thing to do, and the primary requirement of all these laws is to regulate good management practices. Which which in itself is the right thing to do. Being faithful to these laws will benefit you in different ways, it will help you avoid issues and it will also help you better your company’s environment.

The limitations of HR and Legal Departments

Every HR department is responsible for respecting HR law. This includes keeping records, writing and implementing good policies and monitoring the firm’s decisions. One of the key functions of legal counsel is to buffer damage after it has occurred.

Limiting Potential Liability

Financial liabilities can happen when HR laws are broken or seem to be broken. This camera present great financial loss for a corporation. Not to mention that and organization may also face PR trouble when claims such as discrimination surface.

Challenges to Legal Compliance

When managers attempt to comply with HR law there are several challenges they must face. Such as a dynamic legal landscape, complex regulations, fair employment strategies and unintended consequences.

Several laws affect the practice of human resource management, and rapid changes art taking place all the time. It is because of this that companies require HR teams to be constantly prepared an updated. HR law is very complicated and each individual law comes with a set of regulations.

Conflicting Strategies for fair Employment

Fair employment is a situation in which employment positions are not affected by illegal discrimination. Civil rights law prohibits employers for making decisions based on race, sex or age.

There are some strategies that can be implemented to reach this goal.

One is to make all employment positions without regard of these characteristics and another one is affirmative action. Affirmative action programs require that employment decisions are actually made on the basis of these characteristics. Affirmative action this is not permitted however during layoffs.

Why do employees join unions?

Employees generally seek representation from a union because they are not satisfied with aspects of their job, lack influence to make changes, believe their compensation is not adequate and basically see the union as the solution to their problems.

The company should have a labor relations to strategy, which is an overall plan for dealing with unions.

Unions can have a significant impact on HR management.