LAW, ETHICS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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LAW, ETHICS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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LAW, ETHICS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE1
Question 1
In the territory of the US, there is a period when the workers or employees in a workplace
are at such compassion of their proprietors or employers regarding the job-related benefits and
discrimination, and nothing to say regarding promotions and hiring (Marchiondo Ran and
Cortina 2018). However, during the 20th century, a push for the rights of employees has gained
for any violation of their rights by the employers in an organization. It has resulted in the birth of
a series of essential laws and regulation, as well as programs for protecting the rights of
employees in the workplace (Dessaint, Golubov, and Volpin 2017).
Several issues have been identified in the workplace where the rights of an employee or
worker have violated by the higher authority or employer of that organization (Davidov,
Freedland and Kountouris 2015). The issues, which are arisen in the workplace and the laws or
legislation relating to it, are discussed in this paper. There is a problem regarding the wages of
the employees, and then the federal government of the US has enacted the Fair Labor Standard
Act in the year 2009 to ensure the getting payment of minimum wages. It has ensured that the
workers in the US should have been received or paid a minimum remuneration or wage for such
work in the workplace (England, and Alcorn 2018). The employers of the public sectors, as well
as private sectors, should have to pay at least $ 7.25 in every hour to its members or staffs
(Belser, and Rani 2015). However, several legislators have tried to upsurge the amount, which
has fixed in the Fair Labor Standard Act. This Act has offered special protection to minor
employees in the workplace. It has limited the hours of working of children who are below the
age of 16 years. However, this Act has prohibited employers from employing the employees who
are under the age of 18 years for any particular high-risk jobs (Hindman 2016).

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There is legislation has come into force in the year 1963 for the protection of
discrimination in the workers in the workplace named the Equal Pay Act. The main objectives of
this Act are to prohibit such discrimination on the basis of sex at the time of paying the wages to
the workers by the employers of an organization (Deakin et al. 2015). No employers of an
organization shall discriminate or differentiate in which those employees are being hired,
between the employees in regards to sex at the rate which is less than the minimum wage. The
employers shall not discriminate to the employees at the time of pays the wages to such opposite
sex in the same organization for any equal work and performance, which has required a similar
effort, skill, as well as responsibility (Brake 2016). However, there can be legal discrimination
on several bases of work such as firstly, on the seniority system; secondly, on a merit system;
thirdly, on the system of quality and quantity of the production; fourthly, on any differential
basis of any factor rather than sex (Mamorsky 2019).
In the history of the US, Nullification is one of the legal theory where the state has
possessed a right to invalidate or nullify any of the federal law or rule which is deemed to be
unconstitutional in respect to the constitution of the US, as well as own Constitution of that state
(Simonis 2019). The compact theory of in the US, it has come out that not the federal courts but
the states are the ulterior interpreters in the extension of the powers of the federal governments.
Question 2
The term ‘employment at will’ is one of the US law or rules, which has stated that the
contractual relationship between an employee and employer can be able to terminate for any
cause or at any time without a contract between both of the parties (Hijal-Moghrabi, Sabharwal,
and Berman 2017). However, there are various exceptions in this law such as under Civil Rights