HRM 2600 Chapter : chpt 13- employee rights and discipline
19 Jan 2012
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Employee"s rights to protest unfair disciplinary action, have access to their personal files, challenge employer searches and monitoring and to be free from employer discipline for off-duty conduct. Employee rights guarantees of fair treatment from employers, particularly regarding an employees right to privacy. Employers responsibility to provide a safe workplace for employees while guaranteeing safe, quality goods and services to consumers: negligence failure to provide reasonable care where such failure results in injury to consumers or other employees. Employees should look at their jobs as an established right one that shouldn"t be taken away without just cause. Statutory rights: statutory rights rights that derive from legislation, health and safety legislation ensure safe/healthful working conditions. Protects employees from discrimination on the basis of things like age, sex, race. Pay equity legislation how women and men are compensated. Labour relations gives employees the right to form/belong to unions/bargain for better working conditions. Contractual rights rights that derive from contracts.
