Fal-Apart
A large discount store, Fal-Apart, employs a large number of part-time workers to avoid paying health benefits and other benefits they would have to pay for full time employees. This company often works employees overtime, especially during the end-of-year holidays. But when employees receive their paychecks, they realize that they did not get paid the usual time-and-a-half when they worked over forty hours a week. Fal-Apart explained that the reason they do not pay for overtime during the holidays is, after December first, at the point the employee’s time card reaches forty hours, that employee is automatically terminated and rehired as contract labor. For that reason, no overtime pay is incurred; therefore, none is given. Evaluate the ethics of this company’s practice according to rights, justice, and utility and care. (The answer refers to your explanation regarding your evaluation: is this company’s practice ethical? Keep in mind, the reason Fal-Apart can employ so many workers AND keep its prices low is because of this policy. If they change this policy, it will affect employees and consumers. The evaluation of rights, justice, and utility should support the final answer to the question is this practice ethical.) The answer should explain HOW the evaluations of rights, justice, utility, and care support it. In the case of conflicting support, that conflicting support should be explained, and the answer justified in light of the conflicting support (clarification: conflicting support is okay, just explain how, for example, two other evaluations overrode the one that didn’t agree).
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