Gen 200 - Workers Right to Be Treated Fair

Workers Right To Be Treated Fair

Akiko Amar

GEN200

June 22, 2011

Dr. Leah Raby

Workers Right to Be Treated Fair

Many workers today face issues in the workplace. Many workers are unaware of the rights entitled to him or her. A nonprofit organization called Workplace Fairness can help. Workplace Fairness goals are to educate the workers and workers advocate about workplace rights and options for resolving workplace problems and that policymakers, members of the business community, and the public at large view the fair treatment of workers as both good business practice and sound public policy (Workplace Fairness, 1994). Workplace Fairness can contribute to increasing workers professional knowledge and abilities, by advising the rights of work-life balance, adequate health care, and employment discrimination.

Workers trying to balance their work and family life are discovery it increasingly tough, if not unbearable, to do so effectively. Many businesses are still reducing or declining to device packages such as paid family leave, flexible work hours, job sharing, and compressed work weeks, which consent workers the manageability to complement workers work and family obligations. Workplace Fairness ensures that employers observe with legal obligations in the Family Medical Leave Act (Workplace Fairness, 1994). Whenever a worker has a family emergency and is unsure of his or her right to take time off contact Workplace Rights gives the worker the information him or her need. When workers have the knowledge of his or her rights in the workplace, worker should always have time to balance his or her life and work so that he or she may be successful.

Health care expenses have increased vividly during current years. The lack of suitable health care, whether supplied by employers or the government, places a substantial economic burden on the backs of workers. Because of this, suitable health care for workers and his or her families, whether conveyed by employers, the government, or a joint employer-government method, is an important goal of Workplace Fairness. With Workplace Fairness helping workers, the worker will have the knowledge to obtain the appropriate health care. With knowing what the worker should have will keep the worker from experiencing problems with health care. Worker will choose the correct job and appropriate health care.

Discrimination has developed understated and harder to identify and correct. Many workers are unaware when there is discriminated happening with worker and the employer against. Some development has been made for worker, but most workers continue to work in jobs that stereotyped. In the workplace some