HRES 2201: Impact of Alberta Employment Standards Act on Walmart's HRM

This report examines the Alberta Employment Standards Act, specifically focusing on the amendments introduced by Bill 17 and their implications for Human Resource Management (HRM), using Walmart as a case study. The report begins with an introduction to HRM and its importance in fostering a fair and equitable workplace. It then delves into the research, analyzing four key changes in Bill 17, such as leaves, breaks, and overtime, comparing them to previous employment standards. The application to the workplace section outlines the role of HRM in implementing these policy changes, including communication strategies, monitoring, and assessment of results. The report concludes with reflections on the benefits for employees and the positive impact on the organization, emphasizing a healthy and productive work environment. The paper references several sources, including Alberta.ca and Walmart.com.

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Executive Summary
The paper will help in the understanding of the working of HRM in an organisation
like Walmart’s. The HR managers are the head of the organisations that will help improve the
working process of the organisation. It has various duties to be performed that are being
mentioned in the paper.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Research.....................................................................................................................................3
Application to the workplace.....................................................................................................4
Impression and thoughts............................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
Reference list..............................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Human resource management is an important factor that helps in the development of
the organisation with the development of the employees. The HR manager ensures that every
employee in the organisation must have equal rights that will help in the establishment of a
fair workplace. The organisation chosen here is Walmart’s. It is one of the successfully
running retail organisations since 1962 (www.walmart.com, 2020). The paper is intended to
understand the amendment that has taken place in Bill 17, which has been amended for the
betterment of the employees of Walmart’s (Bratton & Gold, 2017). By the end of the paper,
the student will be aware of the role of human resource in the organisation.
Research
The bill 17 is also known as the Fair and Family-Friendly has been passed by Alberta
Legislature that has been implemented on January 2018. It deals with the employees and the
employees and the labour are not a part of the bill (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart & Wright,
2017). Bill 17 establishes various laws that will help in the improvement of the working of
the employees in an organisation. The various organisation has been imposing various duties
on the employees without providing them with overtimes or incentives. Employment
standards have been developed to help the employees understand their rights and ensure that
the organisation does not exploit their skills. According to Bill 17, employees will be eligible
for all kins of leave after attainment of 90 days in the organisation, and there can be no
deduction imposed on the employee. There will be maternity as well as care leaves provided
by the organisation to the employee. Peacock, Belcourt & Stewart, have explained in their
book that the employees must be provided with 30 minutes break after every 5 hours of work.
The compressed work weeks is the agreement wherein the employees and employer
will make a decision based on the majority of the period of the working hour based on which

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there will be overtime payments. The employees must be paid 5% of their total wadge for
vacations unless they have worked in the organisation for five years (Bratton & Gold, 2017).
The Employment Standards before Bill 17 was a bit different. Employees were not provided
with adequate leaves or vacations. There used to be decisions taken ad imposed on the
employees by the employers without the consent of the employees. Deduction used to be
imposed without valid reasons. Hence, there was a very strict working environment that used
to stress the employees.
Application to the workplace
The healthy working environment is a necessity that will improve the working of the
employees boosting, their energies of work well in the organisation (www.alberta.ca, 2020).
There are some duties that the HRM needs to follow in the implementation of the revised
policies (Mondy & Martocchio, 2016). In the implementation of the laws in an organisation.
The following are some of the steps that the HRM takes up to implement policies in the
organisation:
Ensuring that employees are aware of the policies that have been implemented:
To ensure employees are aware of the policies, the HR manager must arrange a
meeting held wherein there will be a discussion about the policies.
Keeping a check on the working of the employees: The HR management must have
a check on the working of the employees along with the leaders of the organisation to
ensure that the people of the organisation are following the policies
(www.walmart.com, 2020).
Assessment of the result: The HRM must have a check on the results of the
implementation of the policies on the organisation as well as on the employees.

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Impression and thoughts
The employees are the one who has been benefitted with the policies that have been
implemented by the organisation. The changes that have been brought in the organisation will
help in the positive development of the organisation. Firstly, the employees will not be
burdened with a working load. Secondly, the employees will be motivated towards work as
the policies that have been developed are for their betterment. The changes that have been
brought is a positive side of the employers as well, as the target or the burden to make
employees productive will be reduced to an extent. Secondly, the work that will be obtained
will be productive (www.alberta.ca, 2020). It will help in the development of a healthy
working environment.
Conclusion
The changes that have been brought in an organisation will have a great impact on the
workplace environment. These are the changes that have been brought for the employees.
Herein the employees are mostly benefitted. However, the organisation will also be benefitted
with the decisions that are being made by the HRM. To ensure that the organisation will be
benefited, the organisation must impose targets that have to be met by the employees daily or
monthly. Hence, this will help in obtaining the revenue as well as employee satisfaction.
Introduction of the targets will help in the maintaining of the working process of the
organisation as well.

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Reference list
Bratton, J., & Gold, J. (2017). Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.
Mondy, R., & Martocchio, J. J. (2016). Human resource management. Pearson.
Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. M. (2017). Human resource
management: Gaining a competitive advantage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill
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Peacock, M., Belcourt, M. and Stewart, E. (n.d.). Understanding human resources
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www.alberta.ca (2020). Employment standards. [online] Alberta.ca. Available at:
https://www.alberta.ca/employment-standards.aspx [Accessed 15 Jan. 2020].
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www.walmart.com (2020). Walmart.com | Save Money. Live Better.. [online] Walmart.com.
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