The violation of employee rights within
the workplace is a cause of major lawsuits in many parts of the world. As an
organization continues to progress and becoming more significant, it tends to
have a greater impact on the social, people, as well as environment. Within the
contemporary competitive business environment, business ethics are increasingly
playing an imperative role in an organization in the determination of its
reputation and sustainability since it acts as a channel to influence as well
as influence the organizational behavior. There are different organizations
that have in the past been found guilty of violating the rights of employees in
the United States. One such organization is T-Mobile. This paper looks at the
violation of employee rights by the T-Mobile company in the United States.
T-Mobile Company was found guilty of
taking part in countrywide violation of US labor laws against workers. This
came as a result of a move by the National Labor Relations Board to combine a
number of complaints against the T-Mobile US Company for the involvement in
illegal actions as well as policies in Albuquerque, N.M., New York City, along
with other areas (Communications Workers of America, 2015). The issues at hand included illegal corporate
policies countrywide that aim at blocking employees from either organizing or
discussing concerning the problems that exist within their place of work. The
employees of T-Mobile Company were caused to experience be silence by the
illegal policies that the management of the company had implemented.
There are a number of facts that were
involved in the case. The ruling of the judge emanated from a series of
repeated complaints that the National Labor Relations had issued against
T-Mobile US as a result of its labor practices. The ruling brought into light
the efforts that the management of T-Mobile US had put across in order to
suppress the employees capacity to come together as a union, a move that had
been fuelled by wide-ranging illegal
policies that the company’s top management were practicing (Communications
Workers of America, 2015).
The decision by the judge placed
emphasis on illegal employment policies as well as restrictions that were
responsible for prohibiting workers from making any discussions on issues that
relate to wages within themselves or even in criticizing the work conditions
that existed in their place of work. This discouraged the employees even from
blowing any whistle regarding such illegal practices by the company. The
policies that the company had adopted were preventing their employees from
exercising their rights, thus restricting them from engaging in protected
concerted activities that as well include unionizing efforts. The employees
were threatened of being fired in case they failed to comply with the policies
that the company had established.
According to Communications Workers of
America (2015), the employees of T-Mobile US were not allowed to expose their
wage, which would otherwise lead to a violation of the company’s confidentiality
policies. In addition, another violation of the rights of employees dictated
that they ought not to speak with the media. All the above policies put forward
by the company illustrate the decision of the management to continuously break
the law, and block the exercising of the rights of employees. According to the
ruling of the judge, out of the 13 policies that were adopted by the T-Mobile
US Company, 11 of them were found to be illegal since they were violating the
rights of the employees.
In case I was in a position to
influence the ruling of the case, I would punish T-Mobile US severely for
restricting the rights of workers in the United States. The company should have
been handed a more penalty for systematically going against the laws that
restrict corporate from restricting the rights of their employees. Such like
corporate organizations should be made to realize that employees have rights
which they should freely exercise without being threatened. T-Mobile US was
noted to be notorious for continuously violating the rights of their employees.
Such a decision by the court will act as a remedy to the problems that many
workers across the United States have been facing for a long period of time.
In conclusion, the ruling that found
the T-Mobile US company guilty of violating the rights of their employees. The
ruling acted as a warning to other corporate organization that think they can
violate the rights of their employees and get away with it. Every employee is
entitled to rights that make him or her to work freely in their place of work.
Tighter laws ought to be implemented by the legal framework of the United
States so as to further protect the employees across the nation. It should be
noted that the decision was appropriate in making sure that workers are able to
work without any restrictions or their rights being violated.
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