Case Study Of The EEOC V. Home Depot

Facts: Defendant (Kmart) allegedly failed to provide to plaintiff (Lopez) the written wage statements. The availability of the wage statements is required under California labor code. Under the agreement, employment-related issues between the employee and company shall be resolved informally or by binding arbitration. This replaces the right of either party to go to court or have a jury decide the outcome of the claims. Lopez alleges that the agreement was never valid due to the fact that he was a minor when he acknowledged the agreement and is now entitled to revoke his consent.

Over the last several decades, workplace issues have become an area of controversy for most employers. This is because the regulations surrounding what practices are considered to be discriminatory have increased dramatically. To enforce these issues, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) is playing a central role in making employers follow these provisions of the law. A recent example of this occurred, with the case EEOC v. HCS Medical Staffing Inc.

First, the legal issues, in this case, are an employee was hired, but the proper steps were not taken to determine if he was eligible for the position. He used a fake name, fake social security number and even provided a card he altered, and lied on his application regarding being arrested and having felonies. The Linden Oaks facility did mandate Jeffrey McGee aka Khalifah Shabazz to undergo a fingerprinting screening until after the charges were filed against him by a resident. If the fingerprints were completed, they were not filed correctly, leaving Linden Oak at fault. The court decided to “grant summary judgment on the plaintiff's negligent hiring claim and remand for further proceedings on that claim” (Walsh, 2016).

The parties in this lawsuit are: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (plaintiff) and Mims Distributing Company, Inc (defendant), the EEOC is the plaintiff on behalf of Christopher Alston (Lally, 2015). Christopher Alston was a potential employee of the Mims Distributing Company, Inc.

Around November 2008, Dillard’s engaged in unlawful employment practices at its Cary, North Carolina location in violation of the Age Discrimination of Employment Act when it terminated Virginia Keene, a 61 year old woman, from her position ("Dillard 's sued by EEOC for age discrimination", 2010). She was an Area Sales Manager and was in charge of the Children’s and Accessories Departments and oversaw the sales associates who worked in her two departments. While she worked at Dillard’s, her managers repeatedly made verbal remarks to the fact that she was much older than the other five Area

For all responses to each assignment, provide the rationale for your answers and any assumptions that you are making.

Home Depot compiles advertising, antitrust and confidentiality in policy of Compliance with Laws, Regulations, Policies, and Standard Operating Procedures. Advertising is to be provided to consumers with accurate, fair, and lawful information that is intended to help them make informed decisions. Antitrust laws in the United States and other countries are intended to preserve a free and competitive market place. Confidentiality is extremely important, as internal information is not to be shared with any outside venders, competition, or family members. This is to provide a guide for employees’, as Home Depot seeks competitive advantage. (Home Depot Internal, 2008)

Case Review: Davis Supermarkets, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board 2 F.3d 1162 (DC. Cir. 1993)

The Home Depot knows that they must stay on top of technology and management must be able to organize this function in a way that surpasses the competition, pleases the customers, and keep the employees satisfied.

Facts of the case: Imagine you are an HR manager and your boss and owner of the company, Bill, comes to you suspecting his assistant, Paige, is stealing money from the company. Bill would like a polygraph test conducted to see if Paige is stealing from the company. He would also like you to conduct electronic surveillance on Paige’s work e-mail for anything suspicious.

The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is a home improvement, construction products and services retailer operating over 2,000 big-box stores in the United States and abroad. The Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank with the vision of one-stop shopping for do-it-yourself (DIY) customers, installation services for do-it-for-me (DIFM) customers and competitive products for the professional market. Their DIFM installation programs include products such as carpeting, flooring, cabinets, countertops, and water heaters. In addition, the company provides installation of various professional products like generators and HVAC systems.

The Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual decision has left states with three less-than-ideal options for obtaining medical claims, pharmacy claims, consumer eligibility information, and provider information needed to monitor health care costs and improve quality.

One of the differentiating factors of Home Depot was that it incorporated within its members a major aversion to any kind of beauracracy and hierarchy. It was a usual practice at the stores to ignore all kind of paperwork that was sent to them by the headquarters. They undervalued such directives to the extent that they would throw these papers in the waste basket or mark them with “BS” stamp and send it back to the headquarters. They believed that all this was a waste of time of the managers and they had more important things to address to at their stores, the most important of them being : satisfying the

Corporations and companies consistently come up with unique ways to continue to grow and develop their businesses. One man named Roger Smith who was the CEO of General Motors, plotted a plan to close 11 GM plants in the city of Flint, and lay off 30,000 American jobs just to relocate them to Mexico, paying its workers 70 cents an hour opposed to the $14 they paid their American employees. GM is an American vehicle corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and formed in Flint, Michigan. GM was the world's largest automobile manufacturer from the 1930’s to early 2000’s. The significance of the issue is, “Is it ethical for corporations to move operations from the US to Mexico, where they can pay workers lower wages than American workers

The Employment Opportunity Commission is involved in an ongoing lawsuit between themselves and FedEx Ground. The charges that have been filed state FedEx has been involved in discriminating toward prior and ongoing employees that are package handlers; moreover, the employees being discriminated against are either deaf or hard-of-hearing. By doing this the company is in defilement of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.