Describe how domestic employment and business law will affect/impact you and the industry you are—or will be—working in. Explain how you use critical thinking in decision making and problem-solving in your professional life.
Domestic employment and business law
Option #1: Lifetime Employability
In your career development work to date, you have researched careers that interest you, and you have evaluated your strengths and weaknesses, comparing them to those required in the career you want. You may have worked with a mentor or networked with other professionals working in your desired career, and you are developing a resume and honing your interviewing skills.
Soon you will apply what you are learning to your job search. This is a good time to also consider the skills and practices required for on-the-job success.
Note: If you wish to use a mentor who does not fit the above description, you must secure your instructor’s approval in writing before completing this project; send the individual’s name, title, and credentials to your instructor with a written request for an exception.
All careers are influenced by employment and business laws that affect hiring, employability, on-the-job behaviors, or termination. To complete this assignment, refer to your personal experience with business laws, acts, ordinances, or your anticipated/desired experiences and how employment and business laws affect you and your specific industry.
You can also refer to information in the Student Career Center.
In the Student Career Center, (Links to an external site.) read Tips for Professional Success (Links to an external site.). Using a single example or multiple examples from your professional life now and/or in the past, or from your research, answer the following questions in a well-written paper.
Be sure to provide detailed responses to these questions using specific examples and integrate your answers into a paper that flows smoothly.
Develop a well-written two- to three-page paper, not including the title or references pages, that includes the following:
Describe how domestic employment and business law will affect/impact you and the industry you are—or will be—working in.
Explain how you use critical thinking in decision making and problem-solving in your professional life.
Define the three most important elements of personal and professional etiquette that you employ in your professional life.
Create a personal ethics philosophy with regard to business or your field of choice. Explain how you would apply this philosophy in your daily life.
Outline your communication strengths in your professional life. Describe your weaknesses.
List the strategies you employ to stay on task and on time in your professional life. Explain how you manage your professional goals.
Use a minimum of three supporting references with at least one or two of those being peer-reviewed. These sources could relate to goal setting, professional goals, professional etiquette, decision making, or any other relevant aspect of career development.
Always follow the APA guidelines
Matilda is a career woman working in a professional office in Westlands, Nairobi. For the last five years she had employed Rose as a
house keeper, whose duty was among others house chores, taking care of the children and cooking. Rose’s day starts at 05.00 a.m.
with washing cars and making breakfast for Baba Kazee before he leaves for work at 06.30 a.m. Thereafter, she prepares the
children to go to school and thereafter attends to house chores.
When children get back from school at 4 p.m., she washes them,
makes them an afternoon snack, cooks dinner and serves them by 7.00 p.m. She thereafter cleans up and eventually retires to sleep
at about 09.00 p.m.
Rose earns a monthly salary of Kshs. 10,000. She lives in the homestead and eats what she cooks for the rest of the family. Rose goes
to church early on Sunday mornings and doesn’t come back until late in the afternoon. Whenever Rose is unwell Matilda ensured
that she foots the bills. Rose is not under any medical scheme including NHIF. She agreed with Matilda that she does not want to pay
NSSF or any other deductions from her salary.
The terms of employment are all verbal and it has worked out well for both of them.
Rose has been a fantastic employee until the last three months when Matilda noticed that Rose’s attitude had drastically changed.
She got very moody, insolent and harsh to the children. She had also become lazy. She slept till late in the morning and on a few
occasions, Baba Kazee went to work without breakfast and the house stayed unkept. Matilda had on several occasions politely
discussed Rose’s change in behaviour with her without any improvement. She was very relieved that Rose agreed to leave
employment without any drama. Matilda paid Rose her salary and she left.
Last week, Matilda received a letter from Kenya Union of Domestic Hotels Educational Institutions Hospitals & Allied Workers
(KUDHEIHA). Rose’s claims among others were:
1. She was not given or paid for notice before termination.
2. Salary underpayment.
3. She had not taken leave for the last five years.
4. She was not paid overtime. She was working from 5.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
5. Service pay for 5 years.
6. Damages for unfair termination.
7. Unremitted NSSF and NHIF dues.
Who is a domestic worker?
According to Order 2 of Regulation of Wages (Domestic Servants Wages Council Establishment) Order, a domestic servant refers to
any person employed wholly in any private household in any of the following capacities, namely cook, house servant (including
bedroom and kitchen servant), waiter, butler, children’s nurse, chauffeur, bar attendant, groom, gardener, or watchman. Rose was
therefore a domestic worker in Matilda’s household.
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