Ethical Policies for IT Professionals

This assignment explores ethical and professional values within the context of information technology (IT). It examines a case study involving 'Jobs for You,' a company facing legal challenges due to employee termination practices. The assignment outlines five essential policies that IT professionals, particularly Recruitment Manager Stella, should implement to ensure ethical and legal compliance. These policies encompass understanding employment-at-will laws, recognizing circumstances where firing is illegal (e.g., whistleblowing, discrimination), documenting performance issues, and being aware of employee rights regarding benefits and unemployment insurance. The goal is to guide 'Jobs for You' in establishing sound ethical practices and avoiding future legal complications.

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Case Study 10 – ‘Jobs for You’
In the given case study, the company ‘Job for You’ has been facing a situation, claimed
by the employees that they are facing unfairly terminated and mistreated. The employees filed
case against the company. Since the employee appealed to view their own records to the national
privacy legislation, it was difficult for the company to keep the records safely in their database.
The company newly introduces a Recruitment Manager, Stella to devise set of codes for privacy
purpose of the company.
Keeping in mind the ethical and professional value that the company instructed there are
five essential set of policies that are required to be followed:
1. Understanding the Employment at Will Policy: The choice of embracing a
"independently" work strategy, implying that a business may fire any worker
whenever, for any reason, or for reasons unknown by any means. Now and again
worker understandings or contracts negate the "voluntarily" strategy, so checking
the words to ensure where one stands.
2. Know the circumstances when it is illegal to fire an Employee: There are
limitation, like the below issues:
 Whistleblowers- Employees cannot be fired for complaining about illegal
activities in the workplace, violation in health and safety or harassment in
the workplace.
 Discrimination- Employees are prevented by Federal anti-discrimination
laws from firing the employees based on religion, race, age, gender or
disability.

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 Exercising Legal Rights- Taking required leave family or medical leave,
serve on a jury or time off to vote does not allow the organization to fire
the employees.
3. Being sure to Document the Performance Issues: Cases of poor execution in the
workplace and lateness and keeping up great records of worker execution surveys
and any past disciplinary intercessions. These will give authenticity to one’s
activities and keep any objection, claim or allegations that may end were biasig
the situation.
4. Understand Employee Rights-Benefits and Unemployment Insurance:
 Continuation of Health Insurance Coverage – COBRA is a federal law
 Unemployment Insurance
 Vested Retirement Plans
5. The Final Paycheck: The federal laws for do not need the employees immediately
present the former for final payback.
Thus, this set of codes will help ‘Jobs for You’ to record notes about the workers without
being afraid of being sued by the employees.

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