MANA 3320 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I Health Facts II OSHA III 3 Citation Levels from OSHA IV Amendments to OSHA V 5 Major Health Issues OSHA Focuses On Outline of Current Lecture I 4 Sources of Stress in the Workplace II Building Better Health among Employees III Employee Rights IV Property Rights V Employment at Will Principle VI Illegal Employee Dismissals VII WARN Act Current Lecture 4 sources of stress in the workplace o 1 High demand o 2 Sustained high effort Deadlines Expending too much mental physical effort to get your job done over a long period of time o 3 Little control over jobs o 4 Little rewards Little feedback Little to no recognition for jobs well done Building better physical and emotional health among employees o Wellness and weight issues o Job stress and burnout These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Depression o Alcoholism o Drug abuse CH 13 Employee Rights and Discipline Facts about Employee Rights o No federal or state law for right to privacy in the workplace o 24 of terminations 1 out of 4 are for improper usage of computers and internet in the workplace today Property rights in term of jobs o Permanent job security o Federal judges and tenured professors in US have guaranteed job security Employment at Will principle o The right of an employer to fire an employer without giving a reason and the right of an employee to quit when he or she chooses unless barred by law or court decision o In 1908 supreme court upheld employment at will in Adair v US o Montana does not uphold this they have Just Cause Law which states you can only terminate for job related reasons Limitations on Employment at Will o Union collective bargaining agreements o Federal and state laws court decisions and administrative rulings o Fear of firing Sabine Pilot vs Hauck o Public policy exception to employment at will in Texas o Sued for wrongful discharge TX whistleblowing act o Can be fired if convicted of a felony or declared mentally ill Only applies to government employees Facts about Termination o Approx 2 million employees are terminated every year Termination can include 250 000 2 10 are terminated for arbitrary reasons Illegal employee dismissals o Death moving fired resigned retired layoffs etc Constructive discharge An employee voluntarily terminates his or her employment because of harsh unreasonable employment conditions placed on the individual by the employer Employers cannot accomplish covertly what they are prohibited by law from achieving overtly Courts have generally adopted a reasonable person standard for upholding constructive discharge claims Another example is when people are forced to put resignations instead of firings The WARN Act Workers Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act o Requires organizations with more than 100 employees to give employees and their communities sixty days notice of any closure or layoff affecting fifty or more full time employees Terminated employees must be notified individually in writing o The act allows several exemptions including unforeseeable circumstances o Penalty is Private Right Cause of Action
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