Question

Leaders must be aware of the federal and state/ territory legal and regulatory requirements within which their organisations must operate. The nature of the business will determine the scope of legal, ethical and environmental compliance requirements.

Provide an overview of four types of legislation, codes or by-laws common to most organisations that employ staff.

Explain the objectives of the legislation, codes or by-laws and how organisations can demonstrate compliance.

Answer 1

Answers:

An overview of four types of legislation, codes or by-laws common to most organizations that employ staff are as below

• FMLA and Employee Leave Act –Family and Medical Leave Act –This law is useful for the leave related clause for the business and they need to abide by this law and organize leaves that compliance with these requirements.
• NLRA – National Labor Relation Act – The employer needs to understand the national labor relation act in order to understand the labor clauses for the employees and plan accordingly.
• OFCCP –Department of labor’s office of Federal Contract Compliance program – This law is to comply with the contractual clause of the employees with the employer, so that we made suitable contracts with employees.
• FLSA and IRS – Fair Labor Standard Act (Overtime act) – fair labor standard act is to deal with maximum working hours and after that overtime is applicable for the employees.

The objectives of these legislation/codes or by-laws for the organizations to demonstrate compliance are as below

• FMLA and Employee Leave Act – Family and Medical Leave Act – the employer need to have the plan for providing the family leave and medical leave to the employee as per this act so that employee can manage their home or family medical needs.
• NLRA – National Labor Relation Act – The objective of this law is to ensure that the employer does not perform any discrimination of the employees and employees can do collective bargaining with the employer for their interest.
• OFCCP –Department of labor’s office of Federal Contract Compliance program – This law’s objective is to have formal contract between the employee and employer so that the legal action can be initiated if any non-compliances is observed between the employee and employer.
• FLSA and IRS – Fair Labor Standard Act (Overtime act) – the objective of this law to provide the standard working time for the employee so that employer cannot over use the employee and pays for their time. Overtime is applicable if employee is interested.