Employment Law Compliance Plan
Dear Mr. Stonefield
As you have already talked with Traci, we will be going over some of those employment laws that are in Texas. We will be identifying a few of them about what they are about and what would happen if you were to ignore that law. So again this will touch base on a few of the laws and how they will affect your business as you are growing. Also to let you know that this laws are in place to protect the employee as well as the employer. Compliance with the laws will be very good to do because if you don’t then your company can be fined up to a certain amount and could possibly be in court.
Now we see here that you want to have about 25 employees at the end of the year. This is great one to start off on. You have to be careful that you don’t discriminate potential employees for who they are. So with that being said you have to be careful that you aren’t hiring people because how they look. You have to be careful on not asking about their age, religion, national origin. If you were to ask them about this they can come back and say that you didn’t give them the job because they were discriminated against and you can face a fine from the state of Texas because of this. This is a big one because you don’t want people to feel discriminated against.
DISCRIMINATION BY EMPLOYER. An employer commits an unlawful employment practice if because of race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, or age the employer: (1) fails or refuses to hire an individual, discharges an individual, or discriminates in any other manner against an individual in connection with compensation or the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment; or (2) limits, segregates, or classifies an employee or applicant for employment in a manner that would deprive or tend to deprive an individual of any employment opportunity or adversely affect in any other manner the...