Labor law guidelines in a healthcare workplace.

· Evaluate the effect of labor law guidelines in a healthcare workplace

You are a manager of 50 service industry staff, including orderlies, housekeeping, and cafeteria staff, at Afton Regional Hospital. You have a mix of full-time, part-time, per diem, and contract employees, and these employees often work overtime hours. The employees are diverse in their demographics, as you have employees ranging from ages 14 to 68, who are diverse in race, ethnicity, and gender. All of your staff members belong to one union, and this union has a variety of different labor guidelines regarding employees’ benefits, pensions, hours worked per week, and compensation.

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Once per quarter, your department must revisit its resource needs, and determine appropriate resource allocation for the upcoming quarter. These resources include staff, supplies, and training, and this process is crucial to ensuring your department can run seamlessly. Your supervisor is starting to plan for this process and has asked for your assistance. Specifically, she needs to determine the resources necessary to meet the needs of the department, while adhering to relevant labor laws and guidelines. She has therefore asked for a report that describes the makeup of your team within the department and evaluates the impact of relevant labor laws and guidelines on resource allocation. Your supervisor will then use this information as she plans for the larger department’s needs.

After receiving the request from your supervisor, you learned that two employees are expected to be out on maternity leave in the upcoming months, and two additional employees have scheduled substantial surgical procedures in the same timeframe. In addition, you receive an email from the Human Resources department telling you that it has had an increased interest from high school students in working at Afton Regional Hospital. Most of these students would be available only part-time during the summer and holiday times; they range in age from 14 to 19. You are glad you received this information now, as this will all be valuable information to include in your report to your supervisor.

Your supervisor has asked that you create a resource allocation report that describes the makeup of your team and evaluates the impact of relevant labor laws and guidelines on resource allocation for your team at Afton Regional Hospital.

Specifically, you must address the following:

· Explain the impact of the various employment types of the industry staff on resource allocation. Consider the following:

· How do the employment types differ in terms of schedule, pay, and benefits?

· How will you manage various schedules to ensure there are appropriate resources to adequately serve patients?

· Describe the specific employment compensation regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and their impact on resource allocation at Afton Regional Hospital.

· Describe the labor law regulations related to employee safety that Afton Regional Hospital must adhere to, and their impact on resource allocation.

· Describe the labor law guidelines related to youth employment, and their impact on resource allocation at Afton Regional Hospital.

· Describe the impact of labor guidelines in union contracts on resource allocation. For example, you might consider the following:

· How might the union contract impact scheduling shifts for employees?

· How might the union contract impact wages and employee benefits?

· Describe the impact of labor law guidelines of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) on resource allocation at Afton Regional Hospital.

Submit

Resource Allocation Report Evaluate the impact of relevant labor laws and guidelines on resource allocation for a team in a healthcare facility. Your report must be 500–1,000 words in length and cite any references using the appropriate formatting guidelines.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

Labor law guidelines in a healthcare workplace.