Rights of Workers in Workplace
It is very important to know about your rights in workplace as you are worker or employee. Do not think that as you are worker work for the employers to get some money monthly, you should not to know more about anything beyond your job duties. This is a big cause that why a lot of workers are being at a disadvantage as their employers do not treat and many times do not reward them as they should to get according to the matter of law. Therefore, what you must always keep in mind when you are working for someone else as a worker is that you must to know all about your rights in workplace as well as another matters like compensation, duties, termination, and so on.
No matter how long they employ you to work for them – one day or 50 years, are you sure about your rights? What you can legally expect from your employer? What you can and can not to do when you are working for one as worker? Certainly that the answers for these questions can not be declared clearly in one article, so would like to inform you some facts and figures that will give you insight into the answers.
Many workers and employees, when think of Workers’ Rights and those that advocate their cause, they probably think of unions. In a union, does not seniority many times overshadow performance? Are unions expected to watch over and protect the rights of workers no matter how big or seemingly insignificant a job they might have? Most of us, when are asked with these questions, tend to have the answers like “yes, it be like that”. But, you may be surprised when known that January 2008, union members accounted for only 12.1% of employed wage and salary workers. It means that 87.9% of these workers are nonunion.
The union play important role to the union employees as it is their bargaining representative. But, it does not mean the nonunion workers have no bargaining power with their employer. They still be able to bargain with their employer, but done in a different way unlike a union employee. For two examples below;
Concerted Activity – Concerted Activity is when the employees get together with their employer to demand a benefit and this are allowed for nonunion employees by The National Labor Relations Board. This is a concerted effort if the benefit is for all employees and an employer can not fire an employee for participating if the demand is reasonable.
Employee Committees – This is a group of employee (management AND employee representatives) that meet on regular basis to serve the interests of all the employees.
However, no matter those are union or nonunion employee, they want the same benefits and conditions. Common demands consist of:
- Better pay, hours or conditions
- Fair treat for promotions, terminations and discipline
- Clean and safe work environment
- Health / Medicare Benefits
The demand and rights of workers or employees no matters they are union or nonunion ones are similar and both of two groups have rights and power to bargain their employers. So, consult a labor law attorney to get more information about your rights in workplace so that it is not easy for the employers to treat you unfairly.
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