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Presentation by: Sandhya

Pooja singh
Ritu saroya
Krishnendu
 CSR can be defined as the "economic, legal,
ethical, and discretionary expectations that
society has of organizations at a given point
in time"
 The concept of corporate social
responsibility means that organizations have
moral, ethical, and philanthropic
responsibilities in addition to their
responsibilities to earn a fair return for
investors and comply with the law.
 Safe Workplace Environment- Every employee
should expect that their workplace environment is
safe and has no health and safety hazards. If a
worker experiences unsafe hazards in the
workplace, a complaint can be filed with
the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA).
 Wage Equality- Employers are not required to pay
all employees the same pay. The right regarding
wages involves paying equal wages to employees
who execute similar job tasks with an equal skillset
requirement.
 Overtime Wage Equality- Labor laws dictate that
employers are required to pay time-and-a-half rate
of pay for employees who work additional hours
over the regular 40 hours in a week.
 No Discrimination in the Workplace- Employers
are not permitted to discriminate against
employees regarding hiring, firing, wages or
promotions based upon the following factors:
 Gender
 Pregnancy
 Religion
 Race, Ethnicity or National origin
 Age
 Disability
 No Sexual Harassment in the Workplace- Sexual
harassment of any kind is illegal and workers are
protected against this in the workplace.
 Medical and Family Leave- Labor laws permit
employees to have up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave—
and job protection—regarding the birth of a baby,
adopting a child, caring for an extremely ill family
member, and also recovering from an illness you
have.
 Joining a Union- All employees have a right to either
join or support a union to assist in the negotiation of
various employment contracts with the employer. An
employer cannot intimidate you nor interfere with
your decision to join a union.
 Unemployment Benefits- Labor laws provide for
employees to receive unemployment benefits as long
as they have been working and currently meet
specific requirements from their state of residence as
well as the federal government.
1. Aware about the surroundings: There are many employees
who doesn’t bother about their surrounding hazards. But, it is
important to observe your co-employees working
circumstances. Once you get to know about the particular
hazards that occur at your workplace, then it will help you in
reducing the risk and allow you to take the precautionary
steps.
2. Reduce workplace stress: Most of the employees are not fit
and healthy because of their busy schedule, which includes
long working hours, work-pressure and conflicts occur with
co-workers or with the boss of the organization. And, all
these can lead to some illness or depression to the
employees.
3. Update Your Supervisor about the unsafe conditions: It is
important that you keep updating your supervisor about the
hazards or risks occur at workplace. They should be legally
obligated to ensure that their employees are working a safe
environment or not.
4. Use tools appropriately: Take appropriate precautions
while using machinery or any other tool, instead of
taking any shortcuts.
5. Keep crisis exits which are easily accessible: In case
there is an emergency, you will need quick access to the
exits. It is also advised to keep clear usage of
equipment shutoffs which might stop you from
performing at emergency.
6. Stay Alert: There are many employees who usually
compromise or ignore the alerts of advance warning and
due to this, a number of workplace injuries or fatalities
occur.
7. Sit in a proper posture: If have a sitting job, then it is
essential than keep your posture correct, while working
on a desk. You need to keep your shoulders in line and
straight back to avoid any spine problem.
 Right to be "let alone"- He right to make
decisions for oneself. Much too broad to be
recognized as a moral right.
 Right to control information about oneself-
Clearest case of an invasion of privacy occurs
when the others come to know personal
information about us. Information sense of
privacy involves relationship between two
parties.
 Privacy establishes the boundary between
individual and thereby defines one's
individuality.
 The right to control certain extremely
personal decisions and information helps
determine the kind of person we are and the
person we become
 Technological challenges to privacy: Technology
makes our jobs easier but allows employers to
ask more of each employee.
 New technology provides new ways to gather
information on which to base our value
judgment.
 Firms often experience unanticipated challenges
stemming from new technology.
 Information and privacy
Consumer privacy- focused on gathering and use
of information in database marketing.
 Benefits outweigh the challenges
 When we don't completely understand the
technology, we are not able to effectively protect our
own information.
 Knowledge gap exists between people who do
understand and others who do not understand
 Human rights are rights inherent to all human
beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality,
ethnicity, language, religion, or any other
status. Human rights include the right to life and
liberty, freedom from slavery and torture,
freedom of opinion and expression, the right to
work and education, and many more.
 Human rights are relevant to the economic,
social and environmental aspects of corporate
activity. For ex- labour rights requiring
companies to pay fair wages affect the economic
aspect. Human rights such as the right to non-
discrimination are relevant to the social aspects.
Human rights are the most fundamental and
important of rights. They are the rights that the
government in the United States spelled out in the
Bill of Rights and the Constitution, and they are the
rights that the United Nations aims to protect for all
people. These rights would exist even without
government protection or intervention.
Some examples of human rights include:
 The right to freedom of thought
 The right not to be prosecuted from your thoughts
 The right to freedom of speech
 The right to be free from torture
 The right to liberty and freedom

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