For this phase of the project, you will take on the role of the Arbitrator. In this role, write a 1 -2 page paper making your final decisions on the contract issues giving specific reasons for your decisions. Be sure to provide the following in your paper

PART I MOCK ARBITRATION

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Danielle Moore

Rasmussen College

Workforce and Labor Relations Management

Author Note:

This assignment is being submitted on Aug 27, 2015 for Collin Louison for Workforce and Labor Relations Management Course

Demographic Information and Benefits

As the CAC Company representative there are several things that I am going to look into in CAC Company so that I can give specific reasons as to why CAC will not put into considerations some of the contract demands. The information I am going to present will be from the employer. When we look at the demographics of the Company it is clear that the rate of payment on hourly basis is based on the level of experience that each employee has. This means that for the employee who has worked for long with the company will be paid more compared to the starters or those who are still young in this Company. On the other hand we can conclude that the level of payment also varies based on the titles that each member possess in the company. Despite this, the employer would therefore need to raise the incentives of the new comers in CAC so that it would at least act as motivation to them (Federal Employees, 2014). On the same case also, the employee will need to pay more for the employee benefits since as we can see the employee is the one responsible for the full costs of the coverage. It will be also be of great need if the employer will not cater for the benefits much more then he can assist the employee to pay half of it.

On the other hand I will not agree with the fact that it is possible to consider the change of the sick time policy within a span of two months. I will not agree with this since the period need to be shortened since human deviation from any moment can occur at any moment. On the same note, I will negate the fact that all sick days should be carried over since this will give opportunities to the employees to recover the income they might have lost as a result of this. Contrary to this as well, CAC will also not consider some specific contract demand such as having a personal time of one hour per month. This is not enough time for any employee to have a continuous time of work throughout the month and only a one hour break per month. The employee needs enough time to settle out their personal issues without any pressure.

Contract terms

On the current contract terms, there are several things that the employer needs to look at. One of them is that it will not be very safe to have only one paid sick day for every 6 months. I will not agree with this contract demand since health of a human is so delicate and hence the time need to be extended say to 6 days in each 6 months for safe employees working conditions. Company working 6 days a week is also not very convincing in giving the employees enough time to spend with their families. It will be so convenient if we have 5 days of real productivity and allow the employees to recollect themselves. Working hours in warehouses will also need to be rescheduled since for the parents they have to take prepare their children to go schools. It will be convenient if the employer will have to consider such factors to make the timetable flexible for everyone evens those working from the field personal work.

Potential trouble

There are several problems that the Company is likely to face in future negotiation. One of the potential troubles is that in the arbitration the Company will be required on how better it has treated its employees. In this case therefore one problematic issue that may arise is that the budget and the frame time might not fall within the Company’s demands. There are also areas such as in the employee’s demographics which might experience complete turnarounds after negations.

Labor and Management

On the other hand there is a requirement for management positions since according to the demographics there is only the Office Administrator, HR Administrator as well as Administrative Clerks. In this case therefore, there will be need for more positions so that it will be easier to manage all the operations in the company (Tawil, 2014). On the other hand labor demands may be quiet low in some time to come since the incentives that employees think they need to enjoy are so much regulated or limited in that case. This may likely spoil the reputation of the Company but if some of the demands are rectified then the whole situation will be smooth.

Total costs

The total costs are likely going to rise rapidly incase all the labor demands will be fulfilled through negotiations. This is because the Company will need to have more equity to cater for the increased rates of payment ,enhancement of working conditions such as pay-offs during sick days among other obligations that will lead to increased costs.

Labor costs

Rise in labor costs will be directly proportional to the rise in the level of the total costs. Catering for the employee’s family coverage, catering for the employees benefits will also mean that the employer will need to allocate an extra capital to cater for these reimbursements (Bournois, 2010). On the other hand, if the sick days will not be carried forward it will mean that the employer will need to allocate wages to the employees if they happened to cover those days.

References

Handbook of top management teams,(2010).Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan

Standards and Quality, (2014).Singapore World Scientific Publishing Company

The 2014 Federal Employees Handbook, (2013).CorkBookBaby