What do you believe Victor should have done in light of the conflict between the memo from the Chief Operating Officer and the need to complete his report by the deadline?

Assignment Question

Week 14 ASSIGNMENT SCENARIO: You work as the Head of Human Resources (HR) for a large manufacturing company headquartered in California. The company is facing challenges in sales revenues, and as a result, they are working to cut costs, among other things. The Chief Operating Officer has sent a memo to all managers in the company, including you, stating that overtime may not be authorized for nonexempt employees until further notice. You have provided this memo to all of the managers in your department. You have asked your deputy, Victor, to pull together an overview of employee complaints (including number, nature, and outcome) during the past fiscal year as part of a report you’ve been asked to give to the company’s Board of Directors. Victor’s assistant, Ari, a nonexempt employee, is working with Victor to compile the information and prepare charts and graphs. On Monday, prior to the Friday due date, Victor and Ari learned that two of the company’s manufacturing plants had extensive updates to the information they had previously provided. Ari works late on Tuesday night and Wednesday night with Victor to revise and finalize the report’s charts and graphs. After completing the report late Wednesday night, they mutually agreed that Ari could take off Thursday and Friday of the following week as “comp days” in lieu of overtime pay. Ari is thrilled because this will allow him to take off four days in a row and fly out-of-state to visit elderly relatives and because the two comp days total more hours than the number of overtime hours he actually worked. Ari buys nonrefundable plane tickets that night. The following Monday, you take Ari and Victor to lunch to thank them for their hard work and the terrific job they did on the report. Ari responds, “it was late nights, but I was happy to help out. It was really interesting and helpful for me to see how the reports for the Board are put together. I’m really grateful to Victor for the comp days this Thursday and Friday; I’m visiting my grandparents, and they are so excited that I’m coming.” Victor, somewhat embarrassed by the revelation, explains that they could not have completed the report without Ari’s extra hours due to the fact that two of the plants provided such a large volume of revised information at the last minute.

Provide your thoughts, as head of HR, as to how to deal with this information.

In your response, consider the following for each individual:

Victor:#1 What do you believe Victor should have done in light of the conflict between the memo from the Chief Operating Officer and the need to complete his report by the deadline?

#2 Was granting Ari “comp time” appropriate in light of the circumstances?

#3 What enforcement action, if any, should you take as to Victor?

Ari: #4 Should the company pay Ari for the overtime hours he worked?

#5 Should the offer of comp time be revoked? What enforcement action, if any, should you take as to Ari?

ALL OUTSIDE SOURCES MUST BE FROM THE US, NO OTHER COUNTRIES Feel free to use other publicly-available information if you would like, and cite any such information. Your answer may not exceed 500 words and/or 1.5 pages, double-spaced using 12-pt. Times New Roman font.