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Case Study - Keystone RV Company, Goshen, Indiana

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A workplace undergoes various legal issues. This can range from discrimination against protected classes, job requirements leading to adverse impact on a protected class, harassment and breach of privacy. The U.S. Federal Government has passed some laws to protect against such occurrences in the workplace. Example of laws protecting employees are Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1961 and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In situations whereby the law passed by the federal legislation is unclear in resolving an employment legal issue, a case can be filed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). However, before taking a case to EEOC employees can deal with it internally by going to the company’s grievance system, mediation, arbitration (binding and non-binding). The case of the Keystone RV company employees taking drugs in the workplace is an example of a legal issue in the workplace. This is because employees taking drugs is illegal and can “result in adverse impact” (Aamodt, 2013) to the company. The action taken by the employers in having everyone tested for drugs was right and necessary. Based on chapter three of the text, “a drug testing program is legal, if the organization has reason to suspect drug use, the job must involve the safety and trust of the public, the testing process must be accurate and reasonably private, the results should be handled in a confidential manner, and employees who test positive must be given opportunities to appeal and undergo rehabilitation” (Aamodt, 2013). Furthermore, the company checked the first box of having reasonable suspicion since they got the tip from the cops. Detail is not given as to the involvement in safety and trust of the public and whether the testing process was accurate and reasonably private. One of the boxes that was not checked was that the results of the tests were not confidential since the employer f

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