Civil Law: Analyzing the Impact of Potential Policies on US Businesses

This essay examines the potential impact of policies, particularly those related to religious freedom, immigration, and economic regulations, on US businesses. It explores how actions by the Trump administration, such as the travel ban and immigration laws, have affected labor resources, leadership, and diversity. The essay analyzes the implications of these policies, including their influence on business leaders and the challenges they face in navigating legal and ethical considerations. It also provides recommendations for businesses, such as promoting economic freedom and global talent flow, to mitigate negative impacts and foster a more tolerant and productive environment. The essay concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the need for businesses to adapt to changing policy landscapes.

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The Potential policy and its impact on the United States
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Introduction
In 1964, The USA had an act named as ‘Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964’, which
states that forbid discrimination by the private business owners depends on the origin, races,
color and religions (Wiley, 2015, pp. 308-312). This act aim was to end segregation and
discrimination in the workplace. However, this act does not include some of the important
aspects, which later on creates problems in society. Under this anti-discrimination law,
businesses have the right to refuse services to the people, only when the business is not
discriminating at the national level.
After the elections in The US, President Donald Trump will enact some populist
policies that might influence the labor resources leadership and diversity (Edsall, 2017). In
addition, these policies might influence US Businesses also. In this assignment, there is a
discussion on these policies.
The Potential policy and its impact
In the recent situations, Trump's actions show authoritarian xenophobic rampage, this
had taken him to the White House. These actions and policies raised many questions against
the Trump presidency. In 2016, ‘President for all Americans’ these were the words delivered
by Trump in the speech after achieving victory in elections (Los Angeles Times, 2016).
However, in past years, Trump administration might not fully support the ideology of one
nation, which he promised earlier as he proposed some of the policies such as ‘Muslim Ban’.
In addition, he directs the administration to exclude transgender individuals from the military
(Watkins & Tseng, 2019). The executive order under Trump’s Presidency puts a severe
restriction on immigrates and refugees from seven Muslim countries. However, some of the
policies, which now generally followed by the USA are America First, Economic policy of

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Donald Trump, Transgender personnel in the USA military, Trump Tariff and social policy
by Donald Trump. Under Trump presidency, there might be the proposition of ‘the rights of
the religious to deny service to others’. This implication of policy might give ‘the right to the
business to deny services to others based on religion’, political beliefs, personal beliefs,
wearing and sexual orientation. If there are changes in the policies, it might promote the
rights of the religious to deny service to others, which influence business leaders and
diversity ( Dierendonck, Knippenberg, & Pieterse, 2013, pp. 782-804). It affects and arise the
issues in immigration, a federal hiring freeze, the travel ban, Wall Street and a private prison.
In the case of the Travel ban, Trump’s pass the executive order, which states that the
Seven Muslim countries temporarily not allowed travelling to the USA and there was the
suspension order for all the refugees at that time (BBC, 2017). In addition, people caught at
the airport detained and the people flew back to the countries where they came from. These
changes made to avoid legal challenges. Moreover, they want the smooth implementation of
it but this order affects the million people. These changes in policy also affect the US
business, as the efficient employees who belong to these countries had to leave their jobs,
which gives the negative impact on firm’s profitability, leads to the heavy losses in the
business of the USA. In the case of immigration, Trump enacted immigration law, which
affects millions of undocumented immigrants in the USA (Pierce, Bolter , & Selee, 2018).
Moreover, In the case of the federal hiring freeze, there is the ample number of the executive
branch in which millions of employees had floated and freeze the new hiring of the
employees (Jacobson, 2018). This had done to reduce the workforce. However, this action
was not applicable to the military forces as Trump wants to increase defense spending.
These policies change the business environment of the USA, which leads to the
change in the mindset of the business leaders. They caught into the dilemma of whether to
support these changes and go with the flow or to oppose these policies. As if they support

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these policies, it can harm the reputation and profitability of the business. In addition, if they
do not follow the norms enacted by the government then also they have to suffer a lot, as
these are the legal norms and its compulsory for the firm to follow these norms otherwise
they might be punished by the government for not following the rules and regulation of the
government. Therefore, it is necessary for the organization to give a positive response to
these changes by protecting the rights of both the side. Businesses have to support the ‘Rights
of the incumbent and new workers’
It can be recommended that the business leaders is that, they should promote the
economic freedom as it can help the business to survive in this kind of environment where
both sides of aspects are important in business (Berggren & Nilssonca, 2015, pp. 371–389).
In addition, if the businesses support the economic freedom it might transform the religious,
political, racial and sexual attitudes. This will increase the tolerance power of the business
and it leads to the growth in the business. This can be done by making an economic freedom
index. In addition, this index helps in measuring the tolerance of different groups such as
homosexuals, different race, and global talent, which helps in making the market-oriented
policies. Moreover, these market-oriented policies support government laws and business
laws.
Another aspect recommended for the business leaders is that they should promote the
global talent flow (Kerr & Kerr, 2016, pp. 83-106). The highly skilled individuals play an
important role in organizational economic growth. Talented individuals contribute a lot to
businesses. They bring an innovative idea for companies. Therefore, it is compulsory for the
business to promote the flow of such kinds of global talents. If the companies promote the
mobility of these types of skilled workforce, it will enhance the productivity of the
organization. The government should also support such kind of talents as it helps in

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increasing the globalization, which helps in increase in the government revenue and there is
overall growth in the economic scale of the country.
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be said that there are some of the popular policies
that influence the labor resources leadership and diversity such as ‘the rights of the religious
to deny service to others’, travel ban and immigration law. In the above paragraph, there is a
detail explanation of these potential policies and its impacts in the current situations. In
addition, there is some recommendation to avoid the negative circumstances faced by the
business leaders while the enactment of these policies.
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