HRM $310$ Module Two Assignment Collective Bargaining Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

Understanding management rights versus mandatory subjects of bargaining is crucial for the HR professional. If you set a precedent of bargaining a management right, you potentially forfeit that right forever.

You are a new human resource manager and you met with managers from all the other departments. During your onboarding conversations with the managers, they gave you a list of practices they would like to change. They have tasked you with communicating the changes to the employees and to make the appropriate policy updates. You know that you cannot make some of these changes without conferring with the union.

Directions

The following is the list of changes. Choose five of these changes for your response.

Management wants to change represented police officers' schedules from a $10-$hour day to a $12-$hour day,

Management wants to change an unrepresented supervisor's schedule to include one weekend day.

Management wants to open on Saturdays. Previously they have been closed. Management wants to force $25\%$ of employees to work on Saturday.

Sales are slow. Management wants to cut all exempt employees' hours by $25\%$ this week

Sales increased suddenly. Management wants to force all union employees to work overtime this week,

Management wants to decrease the tuition assistance benefits because sales are low. Some employees are unionized; others are not represented.