EOC Week 9: Sexual Harassment and the NFL

The whole incident in the NFL and Ray Rice beating his girlfriend and now wife is upsetting, and I believe Ray Rice deserves to be put on suspension for a couple games. "The NFL goes to great lengths to preserve the image and integrity of the game, whether it's personal conduct or protecting competitive balance." Ultimately The NFL has a contract before you enter into the game that you must sign. So Ray Rice new what he was getting into, and he should have thought about his consequences before he decided to knock out his girlfriend in a public elevator on video camera.
"As an employee of the NFL or a member club, you are held to a higher standard and expected to conduct yourself in a way that is responsible, promotes the values upon which the League is based, and is lawful."  If you think about it the NFL's HR did not just put this in a contract for no reason. They understand that these people are public figures and public figures if you do not give them any consequences may get carried away and start to think they can just go around and hit and punch and treat others any way they want. This was what RIce had to say when news of the suspension came out.  "As I said earlier, I failed in many ways. But, Janay and I have learned from this. We have become better as a couple and as parents. I am better because of everything we have experienced since that night."

EOC Week 7: Minimum Wages

 "Minimum wage is the least amount of wages that employees covered by the FLSA or state law may be paid by their employers." I believe at this day and age minimum wage should be raised, and not just in Nevada alone, but around the U.S. In this day and age people cannot live off of $8.25 or less an hour, in this world, every home has a car, rent, internet, a phone, water, electricity and other bills that are needed to be paid. So by living off of that wage you’re conflicted by this because it’s not enough to pay all the bills and live to eat. There needs to be a balance for what we set our pay as, so they need to raise the minimum wage to help people get off the streets. " The Equal Pay Act (1963) requires that equal pay must be given to men and women for equal work, if the jobs they perform require equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and if they are performed under similar working conditions."Nevada's minimum is $7.25 an hour, the same as the current federal minimum wage, for those offered health insurance by their employers.  "Generally, employers may establish wages and salaries as they wish, but they also must comply with federal, state, and local laws that directly affect compensation programs."

EOC Week 6:Perform job analysis, write job descriptions, and job specifications

Visual Merchandiser: "Visual merchandising team members contribute to the advertising, marketing, and sales efforts of a retail location by designing, developing and taking charge of the visual look of the store and its merchandise."

"It is important that proper performance be clearly defined. Then staff members will know what is expected of them, and managers will know when performance is acceptable."

Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Strategy Development -

-Perform research and analysis of current trends and activities in design, fashion and color
-Lead the visual merchandising direction of the company
-Ensure compliance with standards and promote consistent image across all stores/products
-Conceptualize and implement Visual Merchandising Strategies for retail stores/brands
-Execute a visual merchandising strategy that provides clear, illustrated direction while executing a customer friendly merchandise presentation
-Create and maintain visual standards Manual to provide direction for all stores.
-Provide leadership and implementation support to the Stores
-Create photo documentation and communication to aide store set up of key displays
-Create visual merchandising packs, including plans and photographs
-Modify displays based on unique needs of stores/floor plans
-Visit stores to coach in-store visual merchandising techniques to execute the core VM concepts
-Work with internal buyers and 3rd party vendors to address product needs
-Liaise with internal teams such as buyers, design and marketing to create design themes and plans for window and in-store displays, signage and pricing concepts
-Create and implement build out of in-store fixture displays
-Enhance product presentation
-Adhere to budget constraints
-Provide solutions to problems
-Design window displays
-Cost and plan displays.
-Source vendors and materials
-Decide which props/products will be displayed
-4 + Years of Visual Merchandising experience with a combination of corporate and field responsibilities.
-Design experience, InDesign, Photoshop or other VM software experience
-Strong graphic design, fashion, color skills
-Costing, budgeting and vendor management experience
-Space planning or construction exposure
-Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.

Developing Standards and Tools -

Product Merchandising -

Design and Plan Window and Fixture Displays -

Requirements:

"The main objective of visual merchandising is to increase sales and buyer attention, capitalising on the human tendency to ‘window-shop’. Displays are frequently changed to promote new product launches and reflect festive or seasonal themes, such as Christmas, spring or summer."

EOC Week 5: Marijuana in the Workplace

" Marijuana affects every user differently and those effects can depend on: the person- their mood, personality, size and weight; the amount taken and whether it is mixed with anything else; The environment in which the drug is used." 

Now and days, literally about 95% of people in the world are abusing substance, some for medical reasons most for other reasons, and with Marijuana starting to become more legalized in almost all of the states, its going to make it easier for others to access it. So what exactly are we going to do about "DRUG TESTING" how are we going to deny someone a job if they smoke marijuana, if its become less important than the other drugs. Maybe do the regular standard drug test, and if they are shown use of marijuana then maybe have them sign a document stating, that they will not use this substance around the work area, while on duty or on break, must wait until they are _____ (miles) away from the place they work. However, most employers won’t do that, they feel they must have a drug-fee work environment. Okay? What about "Medical Marijuana"

My take on the whole situation, and you don’t have to agree with me, is that if you have a visibly clear reason to why you use recreational drugs and have the proper requirements to use those drugs then you should most definitely be exonerated. Now if the employee was using at the workplace or doesn’t have the right requirements then of course they should be terminated for wrongful use in the workplace. A positive marijuana test doesn't necessarily mean the person taking the test is high, or has even used the drug recently. 

 The standard urine test most commonly used in employer drug testing measures the presence of THC — a psychoactive compound in marijuana that persists in the body for days, weeks or even longer. So a positive marijuana test doesn't necessarily mean the person taking the test is high, or has even used the drug recently.