Respecting Employee

Rights and Managing

Discipline
 Respecting
Employee
Rights and
Employee Rights
Managing
Employee Rights Management Rights Challenges: A Balancing
Act
Discipline

Disciplining Employees Administering and Preventing the Need for

Managing Difficult
Managing Discipline Discipline with Human
Employees
Resource Management
BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 2
Resource Management
 Employee Rights
The ability to engage in conduct that is
protected by law or social sanction, free from
interference by another party.

Statutory Rights (protected by specific law)

Contractual Rights (based on the law of contracts)
Other Rights (ethical, freedom of speech, privacy)

BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 3
Resource Management
 Employee Rights

• Protection from Discrimination

• Safe Working Condition
Statutory
Rights • Right to form Union

• Employment Contract
• Union Contract
Contractual
Rights • Implied contracts/Employment policies

• Ethical Treatment
• Privacy (limited)
Other
Rights • Free speech (limited)

BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 4
Resource Management
PHILIPPINES: Statutory Rights of Employees

EQUAL WORK SECURITY OF WORK DAYS AND WEEKLY REST DAY WAGE AND WAGE-
OPPORTUNITIES TENURE WORK HOURS RELATED
FOR ALL BENEFITS

PAYMENT OF FEMALE EMPLOYMENT OF SAFE WORKING RIGHTS TO SELF-

WAGES EMPLOYEES CHILDREN CONDITIONS ORGANIZATION
AND COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING
BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 5
Resource Management
US: Statutory Rights of Employees

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of

1964

Equal Employment Opportunity

Occupational Safety and Health Act

National Labor Relation Board

BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 6
Resource Management
 Contractual Rights

• Period of
employment
• employer+ employee • remuneration
(+ other party) Employment • duties and
Contract- Contract spells responsibilities
legally binding out explicitly the
promise terms of the • working conditions
between two or employment
more competent relationship for
parties both employee
and employer

Implied
Due process-
contract- certain
• Breach of contract equal and fair
employment
application of a
• Wrongful policy or law
policies and • Employee
discharge practices handbook
• Legal remedy

BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 7
Resource Management
 Right to ethical
Treatment
(Psychological
Contract)

Limited right to
privacy

Other rights
Employees right but they have no legal
Limited right to course if they feel that these rights have
free speech been violated

BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 8
Resource Management
Privacy Act
Protects people from unreasonable or unwarranted intrusion into their personal affairs

Privacy Act of 1974 (US) R.A. No. 10173- Data

Privacy Act of 2012
Guarantee the privacy of personnel files (Philippines)
for employees of the U.S. federal
government comprehensive and
strict privacy legislation
“to protect the
fundamental human
right of privacy, of
communication while
ensuring free flow of
information to promote
innovation and growth.” BA 509 - Human
Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline 9
Resource Management
ThankYou!

BA 509 - Human
10
Resource Management