Has the store manager violated FLSA?

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HRM593 Week
6 Discussion
WEEK
6: FLSA
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College sophomore, Suzy Smart, works part-time in the Handi Mart
convenience store near campus. The store manager requires that each clerk
arrives 15 minutes prior to the start of the shift so that the clerk going
off-duty can review the sales figures and cash status with replacements before
leaving. The clerk going off-duty punches the timecard after this review, but
the incoming clerk is not allowed to punch in until the review is completed and
they have agreed that the sales and cash figures are accurate. Sometimes, this
exercise takes more than 15 minutes, and no matter how long it takes, the clerk
coming on-duty may not punch the timecard and start earning wages until the
process is completed.
Suzy, who completed a course on labor and employment law, realizes
that the store manager is violating the FLSA by not allowing the incoming clerk
to punch the time clock upon arrival. She brings this issue up with the store
manager, who tells her that Handi Mart’s parent corporation does not allow the
store to compensate two clerks for the same period of time, no matter how
brief, since this is classified by the corporation as a single coverage store.
Furthermore, he adds ominously, if Suzy complains to the Wage and Hour Division
of the DOL, he will probably be forced by the company to lay Suzy off, along
with other part-timers, and cover the store himself for the evening shifts. He
states, “You may get everyone a few dollars in back pay, but you’ll also
cost everybody their jobs. Remember, some of your co-workers are single parents
who need this extra income to make ends meet.”
Has the store manager violated FLSA? Explain? Explain how you
would address this scenario as an HR professional.

What have sexual harassment laws accomplished in the workplace?

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WEEK
3: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE LAW
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What have sexual harassment laws accomplished in the workplace?
Have the advances in sexual harassment law resulted in women being denied
meaningful access to senior management mentors, who are most often male? Does
every civil rights gain in the workplace also carry with it an unintended cost?

HRM593 Week
4 Discussion 1 & 2 
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WEEK 4: RELIGION AT WORK – ACCOMMODATE OR CONFLICT?
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What if one person’s right to practice religion conflicts with
another person’s right to be free from the influence of religious practice?
What are some practical rules that can be set regarding religious observations
in the workplace? How can we accommodate religious practices that require
certain time off, religious garb, or even facial hair?

dq 2
WEEK
4: AGE DISCRIMINATION AND THE WORKFORCE
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Baby boomers typically possess more work experience and are older
than the next generation. Does an employer have the right to refuse to hire
candidates who are overqualified, such as baby boomers? Substantiate your
response.

HRM593 Week
5 Discussion 
WEEK
5: ADA PROTECTIONS
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On September 25, 2008, President Bush signed the ADA Amendments
Act of 2008 (ADAAA) into law, overturning a series of decisions by the U.S.
Supreme Court under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and expanding the
scope of medical conditions protected by the law. What do these changes mean
for employers and employees in conjunction with protection against
discrimination based on disability in the workplace? What will employers need
to do to comply?

Analyze all the information provided in the case vignette and begin to formulate a hypothesis as to why the individual needs referral

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Mock Individual Assessment (Rough Draft)
Create a mock forensic assessment report based on a patient in a selected vignette. Provide your diagnostic impressions based on the DSM-5 criteria.
For this assignment you are to:

Improve your interview and referral questions for the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3. Use the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3 for this assignment.
Next, create and document a set of mock interview questions and potential referral questions to ask your client and yourself. You can determine the questions in relation to the case vignette that you choose.
You might also want to consider some of the example referral questions listed below.
Analyze all the information provided in the case vignette and begin to formulate a hypothesis as to why the individual needs referral.
Example Referral Questions:

As a forensic mental health professional, what factors need to be considered in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
What behavioral observations do you make about the client by reading the case vignette?
What are your assessment options in working with the client?
What standards and accepted psychological tests might you apply to your client in forensic settings? Select from the instruments you researched in M3 Assignment 2 RA.
How will you recognize and evaluate your client’s offender behaviors associated with malingering and deception?
What theoretical orientation do you want to use in this case for your treatment recommendations?
What is the case scenario you have selected?
What is the reason for referral?
What is the purpose of the forensic assessment and report?
What is the nature of the problem presented in your selected case vignette?
What is the context in which the forensic assessment report will be used?
What is the background of your client? What are the symptoms displayed by your client and the significance they have in this case?
What is the mental status of your client? Be sure to elaborate on every major component addressed in the mental status examination.
What interview type and approach did you use with your client?
What tests are appropriate to use in your forensic assessment report? Identify one intelligence test, one objective personality test, and one projective test.
What collateral information will you use in the process of the evaluation?
How will you present your impressions of the client?

Write a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report. Use the Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report template (you can download the template from this link).
Evaluate and interpret the information provided to you in the case vignette that you have selected in M1 Assignment 3. Synthesize the information you collected to create a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report. Your findings should be in a report format.

Does Money and Lifestyle Equal Social Class?

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Select one of the topics provided below. Read the directions given in each topic and then write and submit a short essay (250 words or less) in which you report your findings and/or conclusions.

Poverty and Science. Watch the video in which Esther Duflo looks at empirical evidence to determine which programs could likely end or reduce poverty by visiting the following site: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_fight_poverty.html. Write a short essay (250 words or less) in which you explain why you believe that these programs would work in your community.
Social Class: Does Money and Lifestyle Equal Social Class? Consider the following case: A wealthy international drug trafficker and his family live in a well-to-do upper-class neighborhood—for example in Coral Gables. Write a short essay (250 words or less) in which you explain whether you believe that this family should be considered to be an elite upper-class family even though the source of the family’s income is from illegal drug trafficking activities.
Inequality. Drawing upon the discussion of stratification theories in your textbook, write a short essay (250 words or less ) in which you explain which theory you believe best explains inequality: functionalist or conflict theory?
Affirmative Action. Examine public attitudes toward affirmative action (through websites such as Public Agenda https://www.publicagenda.org/ and other organizations such as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund http://www.naacpldf.org/ and the ACLU https://www.aclu.org/ that are pursuing affirmative action and other legal strategies to address racial discrimination. Write a short essay (250 words or less) in which you discuss what strategies do you believe will be most effective in addressing ongoing and institutional racism in this country?
Ethnic Identity. Write a short essay (250 words or less) about your ethnic identity. If you do not have any strong ethnic identification, why do you think that you have not developed such an identity and the implications of the lack of ethnic identity? Alternatively, if you have no specific ethnic identity, but identify as “white,” then discuss whether, now that you have read and studied the sociology of race and ethnicity, understand the concept of “white privilege” by using some of the suggested resources in the textbook.
Hate Crimes. Investigate the occurrence of hate crimes based on race or ethnicity in the United States by visiting FBI at https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes and/or ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-hate-crimes-in-america. Write a short essay (250 words or less) in which you discuss what you have learned on this topic and how as a society we could address the underlying causes of such crimes.
U.S. Immigration Patterns. Whenever the U.S has a need for a large number of people with a certain set of skills such as doctors, nurses, engineers, computer technicians, or even laborers, Congress adjusts its immigration policy. The possibility for a good life in America draws many skilled and professional people to this country, which creates a shortage of these talents in the foreign nation. This is particularly true in the healthcare and engineering fields in the 21st century. For information on how this migration affects those that come and those left behind read the 2013 UN Report at http://www.unworldyouthreport.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=85&Itemid=226. Write a short essay (250 words or less) in which you discuss the pros and cons of this pattern for our country and for the foreign country.
World Hunger. The Hunger Project is a private initiative aiming to eliminate world hunger. Go to The Hunger Project website (www.thp.org) and answer these questions: How does the approach of The Hunger Project differ from conventional development planning? Click on one of the three regions where THP has projects (South Asia, Africa, or Latin America) and select one program that interests you. Write a short essay (250 words or less) in which you describe this project briefly and explain (in terms of what you have learned in the global stratification chapter) what impact you think the program will have and why you think it will (or won’t) work.
Sweatshops. Conduct research on the issue of sweatshops by visiting The Rock Ethics Institute http://rockethics.psu.edu/initiatives/ethics-education/programs/ethics-interest-groups/previously-active-interest-groups/sweatshops-labor-rights-and-labor-standards and/or UNICEF https://www.unicef.org/pon95/chil0016.html. Write a short essay (250 words or less) in which you answer at least ONE of the following questions: What are the advantages and disadvantages of “sweatshop” operations in peripheral countries for the people in those countries and consumers and workers in the U.S? What about child labor? Should the U.S. impose restrictions or taxes on corporations that operate overseas? What is the obligation of these multinationals to host country workers and families? What can people do to influence U.S.corporate policy in semiperipheral and peripheral countries?