Assignment 2: Case Study: Child Support And Wages

Parents who lose wages while they take time off are protected by the Paid Family Leave Act (PFL), as California provides income replacement in order for them to bond with their newborn or newly adopted child. PFL offers six weeks of partial pay in order to care for the child, financially. According to website, paidfamilyleave.org the partial pay is 55 percent of the worker’s usual salary. PFL does not guarantee job protection as the parent has to qualify for the California Family Rights Act. In the article 10 Things You Need to Know About Maternity Leave in the US, it states, “According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 12 percent of Americans have access to the paid parental leave, which is considered a benefit by employers,” demonstrating that only certain employees receive paid parental leave as

In the United States, an employee would be grateful if they were to make nine dollars and hour. With the economy in the United States, no person alone could live even lower than comfortable on that pay.

As the minimum wage has remained flat, productivity has increased, and so too have corporate profits. If the minimum wage of the 1960s had increased with productivity, it would stand at around $15/hour. If it increased with inflation, it would be more than $10/hour (Khan, 1).

Child support is by far the most common thing in America. Families which include both parents are slowly dying out. Although raising a child in a single family home might be easy to some, it is actually pretty stressful for those who aren’t financially stabled. I could go into many details and situations regarding child support due to the fact that my siblings are either on the supporting side or the one who needs the support. Child support is a very big deal to me because I do feel that if the other parent doesn’t want to be in that child’s life then the least they could do is give money to the care giver so that child is not going without, especially in the infant stage.

In every state the pay will average different, people with higher education or people with more

Now the question is what is minimum wage. “An amount of money that is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law” (Merriam Webster’s learner’s dictionary). According to United States department of Labor “The federal minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees is $ 7.25 per hour effectively July 24, 2009” (Department of labor/ Minimum wage).

An increase of a couple of dollars per hour or more in the minimum wage could make huge improvements in the difficult existence of the working poor, perhaps allowing them to exit the debt treadmill and stand a better chance of eventually rising into a revitalized middle-class. Researchers at the White House Council of Economic Advisors found that an increase to $10.10 an hour would raise wages for 28 million Americans about nine million of those due to the ripple effect. “According to a 2015 report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a worker must earn at least $15.50 an hour to be able to afford to rent a modest one-bedroom apartment, and $19.35 for a two-bedroom unit.”

A medical office needs to be compliant with employment laws; this will ensure they do not have lawsuits that could patiently put a company out of business. This also helps the offices run smoothly and free from errors. There are several employment laws a few of them are the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The American with Disabilities (ADA) is when an employer is to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee with a known mental or physical limitation, or a qualified individual with a

Have you ever thought about feeding a family and paying the necessary bills on $7.25 per hour? If you answer “no,” then think about this. With this type of salary you could not cover your rent in most parts of the United States, much less feed your family. In this day and time this feat cannot be achieved without raising the minimum wage. If our current government does not raise the minimum wage than a person earning minimum wage would need to work two or three jobs just to keep up with inflation.

4. Congress last increased the rate in stages in 2007, reaching $7.25 an hour in 2009, or $15,080 a year.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is responsible for regulating and enforcing policies that must be met by students in order to maintain eligibility. The athletic directors of prosperous universities (across the country) need to devise a petition, and present it to the NCAA in hopes of an agreement. By doing so, they will take the beginning steps in creating fair methods of compensation among the student athlete body of the basketball programs. These authoritative figures will be creating an opportunity where they can help improve the current collegiate athletic system without adding pressure to the students –some of which is already created by the present NCAA policies.

It is believe that child benefits are quite important for parents to cope with the cost of rearing their children. The Cambridge Dictionary (2015) has defined child benefit as ‘money received regularly by families from the government to help pay for costs of taking care of children’. In the United Kingdom, the government has changed the child benefits policy in 2013. Child benefits are no longer available to every household. Individuals who earn above £50,000 a year will lose some of their benefit, and entirely withdrawn for individuals earning beyond £60,000 each year. This rule leads to a considerable effect to the people in the UK. It has diminished the entitlement of approximately 1.2 million households (BBC, 2015). In this essay, I will describe this policy as well as the labour supply model, then by using the standard labour supply model, investigate how this shift in child benefits will influence labour supply decisions for a single mother with two children who is capable of finding work at £30 per hour.

company is getting up to 35 percent more wages. One point I'd like to bring up

The % of wage overtime changes depending on the number of employees Sam has and the base wage rate. Since the case didn’t specify, assume that Sam has 10 employees. Each employee is then working 9.79 hours per day if actual hours per day is 97.92, which equates to 18% overtime pay (1.79 / 9.79). Since actual costs were $24,675, if we plug those numbers into the equation we can find a more accurate base wage rate for Sam’s company.

Despite the fact that the Equal Pay Act has been law since 1963, many problems inevitably arise in the administration of equal pay laws (Fisher). It has been estimated that at this current slow rate of progression in closing the gender pay gap it will be 2068 by the time men and women’s wages are equalized. It is clear that the business case, as well as the legislative case, has a significant role to play (Commission Policy Report).