07/23/2018
POST # 2018 A 5 THE COMMON LAW OF OUR WORKPLACES!
Info from class notes and the common law of the workplaces!
Ever been fearful of disciplinary action in the workplace, DID YOU KNOW????
Notice of Consequences!
An employee is entitled to be informed of or to have a sound basis for understanding, the disciplinary consequences that will result from violating policies or work rules in effect at the employee's place of employment.
Comment:
1) This reasoning is similar to, one’s right to notice and the opportunity to be heard before discipline is imposed for a specific offense.
2) Many/most arbitrators believe that employees are entitled to know what is expected of them in the workplace, and conversely, to know what action will befall them in the event they violate an employment policy or work rule.
3) The employee awareness often comes from collective bargaining contract provisions and from published or posted work rules and procedures. Some offenses are sufficiently serious, however, that as a matter of common sense and common understanding employees will be held to know the consequences of committing them, such as assault, especially with a weapon, theft, etc.
4) Another important application of the proportions is that, in the administration of disciplinary action by an employer, employees should not have to suffer disparate treatment, that is, there should be equal treatment for like offenses.
Old Dad always said:
If politicians do not produce, they should remember, be it friend or foe, you just may have to go.
Comes a time that we all must arise, or the final chapter can for sure be our demise.
I agree with the cry's for change, so long as the adverse change does not come my way.
Delusion is developed by our expectations.
