Assignment One: Hiring and Human Rights This assignment is a Group Assignment. Your group is a firm of HR Consultants (s

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Assignment One: Hiring and Human
Rights
This assignment is a Group Assignment. Your group is a firm of
HR Consultants (select your own consulting firm's name) providing
advice to James Rutherford, a Hiring Manager from the Frankfort
Manufacturing Company. Mr. Rutherford needs advice on three
separate issues outlined below. Please consider the three
scenarios/situations and write a report for the company addressing
each of the situations/scenarios. Remember you are acting as a
Consulting Firm and your firm wants to provide clear and accurate
advice.. Use a professional report writing format. Be sure headings
and important points are clearly defined. Follow all grammatical
rules to ensure this report adheres to professional business
standards.
Research:
In order to provide the best advice your consulting firm can,
your group will need to do the necessary research. Be sure to
include a Works Cited page using APA.
Frankfort Manufacturing Company will want to know the reasoning
behind your advice. Be sure to provide the company and their Human
Resource Manager with supporting evidence for your advice.
You are also encouraged to visit the Ontario Human
Rights website and/or The Ministry of Labour website
for additional assistance.
You will find other resources in your textbook and on-line
james Rutherford, the Hiring Manager at Frankfort Manufacturing
Company has complied a list of questions that he would like to use
in an interview to select an office manager. Your Consulting Firm's
first task is to review the questions Mr. Rutherford has given you
and identify which questions are appropriate and/or inappropriate
based on employment legislation.
Questions:
Provide you opinion and the rationale for your advice. Be clear
as to what you are advising.
Situation B
Mr. Rutherford outlined a concern he has with an employee.
Mr. Rutherford has indicates that the employee is often
surfing the internet while at work and fears that not only is this
affecting productivity negatively, but is also a violation of the
company's rules for internet surfing using a company
computer. Mr. Rutherford would like to ask the IT team to
investigate how many hours a day are logged to non-work-related
activities for that employee, and also ask for a list of websites
that the employee visits.
To Be Considered:
How does privacy legislation effect this situation?
If your Consulting Firm needs more information, outline what
that information might be?
Situation C:
Mr. Rutherford has an employee, Ms. X, who has been a very good
employee with excellent evaluations for over 10 years. She works in
one of outlying plants and is responsible for using appropriate
machinery to move materials necessary for production. However, over
the past two years, the company has decided that it need to
increase it's productivity and the machines Ms. X has used in the
past are being phased out for efficiency purposes. The company is
now requiring employees in Ms. X's type of position to change
the way they work and now be able to lift loads of material more
quickly. Ms. X has not been able to meet this requirement, even
though she has tried. Management has asked Mr. Rutherford his
opinion as to how the company could fire Ms. X since they feel she
is not meeting her quota.
To Be Considered: Are there any laws or legal precedents that
should be taken into consideration?