Employment Law Compliance Plan

Employment Law Compliance Plan

Earl la'Counsel Newton

HRM/531 - HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

August 01, 2013

Robert Enderle

Employment Law Compliance Plan

MEMORANDUM

TO:   Traci Goldman

FROM:  Earl Newton

DATE: July 31, 2013

Subject: Employment Law Compliance Plan

I am tasked with creating an employment law compliance plan for a Bradley Stonefield. He is creating a limousine company that is based out of Austin, Texas. He has set a goal to have 25 employees within the first year of his business operations. So to help ensure the success of this business venture an Employment Law Compliance Plan is being developed.

This memo will not only examine employment laws it will also deal with the penalties that can be enforced for noncompliance of these employment laws. This memo will address several employment laws several of these are laws will be specific to Texas and there will be some National Employment Laws. They are as follows: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, The Texas Minimum Wage Law, The Texas Labor Code Anti-Discrimination Provisions, Occupational Safety and Health Act.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was the first attempt through legislation to attack the issue of unauthorized immigration. There are approximately 178 million civilian workers in the United States labor force. This figure, however, excludes an invisible labor pool—the undocumented worker (Robinson, Gilbertson 1987). According to the New America Foundation, Texas has the third highest percentage of undocumented workers in its workforce that stands at 9.0%. Initially through various loopholes in the laws employers were not held accountable for hiring undocumented aliens. It was illegal...