Exam 13: Employee Rights and Discipline

Scenario 13.1 The Beer Pitt Inc. is a Canadian brewery that distributes premium lager beers across the country. Over the years, the company has been having problems with employees drinking on the job, resulting in arguments, fights, and back-ups on the production line. Because employees are unionized, it has always been difficult to determine that drinking on the job is the cause of the problems the company is experiencing since these problems have been occurring for decades. Recently, however, an employee was injured. The HR department wants to develop and implement new sets of disciplinary policies and procedures to help curb these problems. -Refer to Scenario 13.1. Assume that The Beer Pitt might be better off using positive discipline given that the company has allowed employees to behave this way for decades. Which of the following is NOT a focus of this approach?

An ombudsperson helps management by providing a check on itself.

A major responsibility of the HR department is to develop, and to have top management approve, its disciplinary policies and procedures.

The University of Lalaland has decided to move to a new system in dealing with employee complaints. It has hired a retired judge whose job is to listen to employees' complaints and then try to seek solutions through negotiation and mediation. What is the most likely title of this person's job?