The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 23, Problem 9BCP
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Case summary:The federal agencies were charged by the Congress related to the regulation of total working hours of commercial motor operators. FMCSA agency revised the regulations in 2003 and increase the daily and weekly working hours for motor vehicle operators. The decision taken by FMCSA agency didn’t consider the major impact on driver’s health. Due to this, the revisions done by agency were overturned. In response, FMCSA issued a public notice and open the revisions for public comment for further improvement. FMCSA agency also analyzed the risk of crash and its corresponding cost for the industry due to driver fatigue under different circumstances. The agency concluded that the safety benefits of not increasing the drivers working hours were less than the total economic costs. In response, FMCSA issued regulations that were identical to the previous version.
To find: The disclosure of the new methodology sooner by the agency will be ethical.
(b)
Summary Introduction
Case summary:The federal agencies were charged by the Congress related to the regulation of total working hours of commercial motor operators. FMCSA agency revised the regulations in 2003 and increase the daily and weekly working hours for motor vehicle operators. The decision taken by FMCSA agency didn’t consider the major impact on driver’s health. Due to this, the revisions done by agency were overturned. In response, FMCSA issued a public notice and open the revisions for public comment for further improvement. FMCSA agency also analyzed the risk of crash and its corresponding cost for the industry due to driver fatigue under different circumstances. The agency concluded that the safety benefits of not increasing the drivers working hours were less than the total economic costs. In response, FMCSA issued regulations that were identical to the previous version.
To explain: The unethical behavior of an agency to manipulate the data.
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The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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