Workers Rights

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Many working people have been facing serious problems at their various work places

When you pay a visit to various businesses , you must sympathize with employees . They are never treated like people with feelings or as human beings . Many Businesses and employers have been violating the rights to an extent of workers working under poor , unsafe , and unhealthy working conditions You will find the employees not being paid well , being overworked , not getting appropriate benefits , and being discriminated in the

employment among others . Some of the employers deny their workers unpaid leaves to care for the sick and newborns , punish workers who support unions , deny overtime premiums , expose the works to hazardous working conditions which might hurt the workers , discriminate the employees on the basis gender , age , physical features such as pregnancy and physical disabilities , race or ethnicity , religion and with some employers they even harass their employees sexually

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Basic legal rights to healthy , safe and fair working conditions have been implemented to help worker out of the problems . These rights are set to ensure that all employees are working under favorable conditions The rights are involved with the labor , employee and employer , and they are stated in the employment and labor act . The rights are also concerned with the development of union , the payment of workers , and other related benefits . The rights intention is to make the employer get the best from the employee , as a result of safe and healthy working condition . According to the rights , workers are entitled to favorable payments , overtime payments , freedom to support union leaves to care for new born as well as family members among others (FinLaw 2008

The workers rights take care of the currently working employees the applicants and the former employees . This means that each of the group has its right . In all groups , the employers have the right to privacy in terms of information , personal possession as well as telephone conversations . However , many employers don 't offer this privacy among other right (Ehrenberg 1985

To respond to these violations there has been various employment related federal laws . These laws vary depending on state , how they are applied to the employers , and the kind of protection they gives the employees . This means that every state has employment laws , and every employee has at least a right to protect him or her against exploitation and harm

The issue of workers right violation occurs locally nationally and internationally . This is the reason why the laws consider all the employees from the local level to the international organizations because as long as working and payments are carried out , then there is usually the violation of workers rights because the employers usually aims at achieving the best from employees , while spending less . This is why many employers will overload the employees to an extent of having extra...