Disney Scoping Report of San Jose

INTEGRATED BUSINESS CHALLENGE 1
Integrated Business Challenge
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INTEGRATED BUSINESS CHALLENGE 2
DISNEY SCOPING REPORT OF SAN JOSE
San Jose is a city located in California. It is the third largest city, by population. The city is
located within Silicon Valley; as such it prime for business. It is vital for the survival of a
company that it understands the State/municipal of any region they so wish to expand to. Matters
such as taxation and labor law different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and ignorance of these
laws may result in a heap of legal troubles for the company.
1) International Legal Systems
There exists various international legal instruments that provide various rights and obligation
that companies (most especially large companies such as Disney) are expect to uphold.
With regard to employment, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the United
States is a signatory, provides that all persons have the right to equal and fair remuneration, good
working conditions and the right to form and join trade unions (International Declaration of
Human Rights, 1948, Art. 23(1,2,3 and 4). The International Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination, while acknowledging the principles laid out in the UDHR
(The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965
Art. 4), continues to provide for the same rights as highlighted above (The International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965 Art. 5(i and ii), and
that all worker are protected from all forms of racial discrimination (The International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965). These two
instrument obligate States to create laws that protect employees.

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2) National and State/Municipal law
a) Workplace laws
As a result of the above obligations, the United States has passed several laws that impact the
rights of workers. Laws provide for equal pay (The Equal Pay Act, 1963), minimum wage and
working hours (Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938) and the prevention of discrimination (Civil
Rights Act, 1964, Title 4). With regard to occupational safety, the law requires employers to
ascertain that they provide their employees with a safe working environment (Occupational
Safety and Health Act, 1970, Sec 7).
On the State level, California Law requires that an employee’s standard length of work is 8
hours a day. Anything over this is regarded to as overtime and the law requires that the employer
pays accordingly (Upcounsel, 2019).
b) Consumer laws
With regard to matter of investment, Disney Company is bound to disclose its financial
information to all investors (Securities Act, 1933). With a planned expansion, the company will
be looking for investors, hence it must disclose all its financial information for this purpose.
Consumers are protected from unfair and deceptive representation under California State law
(Upcounsel, 2019). As such it is imperative that in its efforts to attract consumers, Disney present
to the people of San Jose only that which is factual.
c) Tax Laws
San Jose requires that all business pay taxes. Taxation can be based on a number of factors
including number of employees (Sanjoseca.gov, 2019). At the state level, every corporation
conducting business in California is liable to income taxation of 8.84 percent (Ftb.ca.gov, 2019).