Ethics and the Employee
Relate the discussion of employee rights to the discussion of moral rights. Are these two discussions consistent? Does your review of the discussion of moral rights suggest to you that other important employee rights are not discussed in this chapter? If so, what are they?
The discussion of employee rights comprises questions such as what are the fundamental rights of employees? Regardless of the workplace of the employee, all workers hold fundamental rights such as the freedom from any form of discrimination, equal and fair compensation, and privacy, among others. Even before getting an opportunity to work with an organization, each individual who applied for the job has a right, the right to receive equal consideration during the hiring process. The entire process should be free from any form of discrimination based on religion, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, gender, colour or even language (Lee et al. 2013). Moreover, employees stand other essential rights at the workplace, such as the right to be free from harassment and discrimination of sorts. The right to a conducive workplace that not only fosters employee’s growth but it is also free from hazardous substances, risky situations or any other toxic safety danger and the right to just salaries for the services offered.
Consequently, the discussion of moral rights elaborates on the rights-based on ethics, which entails some of the positive and negative rights that all human beings hold since they are human. Moral rights can either be conventional or natural; in other words, rights created by humans and assimilated to society’s values and rights that are moral (Pasternak, 2017). Some of these rights include the right to life, a lawyer, liberty, express ideas or opinions with freedom as an individual, freely practise a religion of choice, not be tortured, be slave-free, and many other rights.
These two discussions are not only interrelated and interdependent but also portrays consistency in their ways of handling humans. Employee and moral rights work towards one goal, and that is achieving equity and advocating for the rights of everyone in society. The chapter discusses the employee rights comprehensively; however, workplaces ought to focus on fostering cultural diversity and doing all it can to shan discrimination of any form.
References
Lee, P. K., Lau, A. K., & Cheng, T. C. E. (2013). Employee rights protection and financial performance. Journal of Business Research, 66(10), 1861-1869.
Pasternak, A. (2017). From corporate moral agency to corporate moral rights. The Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 11(1), 135-159.