Coca Cola Workplace Issues

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C. Comprehensive discussion o workplace Issues After we had done some of the research, we found out there have few workplace issues for the company, Coca-Cola. Those issues we found are violence in labor subcontracting system, racial discrimination in USA and human right issues. Violence in Labor Subcontracting System One of the issues we had found out is that in Coca-Cola China there had a case of violence in labor subcontracting system (sacom.hk, 2009). This case was happening on the year 2009, there have 2 university student workers who are asking for the back pay after the resignation from a labor dispatch company who hire by Coca-Cola located on Hang Zhou based bottling plant. At the office of the labor dispatch company, one of the students…show more content…
vs. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA Inc., a case which was filed in New York State Supreme Court in Queens on behalf of 16 current former black and Hispanic workers, charges that an “endemic culture of racism” runs through the company’s management and supervisors at its New York bottling plans in Elmsford and Maspeth, New York. (Judy Greenwald, 2012) The lawsuit was filed on Jan 3, but it only publicized in the New York Daily News last week. The lawsuit charge that the 16 plaintiffs have suffered from the worst of its ills in terms of allotment of working hours and biased work duties, reprisal and unfair discipline and a sarcastic work environment. (Judy Greenwald, 2012) This lawsuit happen in April 1999, the 16 black and Hispanic production workers in Coca-Cola Company are assigned to the most unwanted and physically dangerous position and to works that are not part of their job descriptions. Besides that, the managers violate the established seniority system by assigned greater jobs and extra overtime hours to less seniority workers than the black and Hispanic workers in Coca-Cola Company. The plaintiffs have discovered that the opportunities for promotion and improvement within the Coca-Cola Company are usually biased against the black and Hispanic workers. Finally, one of the truck drivers within the plaintiffs in Coca-Cola company have had prohibited from working overtime and unfairly limited their working hours, whereas white drivers do not have to face…show more content…
(Business & Human Right Resource Centre, 2014) The lawsuit also charged that plaintiff who have dared to speak up about the discrimination to human resource manager have faced swift reprisal from the white managers and have not only found no resolution to their concerns. This reprisal has come in the form of unfair disciplinary actions and unwarranted scrutiny, until some of the plaintiffs’ suspension and termination. This lawsuit seeks for psychological and punitive damages, emotional, unspecified compensatory, lost compensation, attorneys’ fees, front and back pay injunctive relief, and any other damages permitted by law. The plaintiffs’ attorney Steve A. Morelli of the Law Office of Steven A. Morelli P.C. in Garden City, New York had commented on the lawsuit, said Coca-Cola’s hostile work environment is “clearly something that needs to be addressed.” Human right violation in
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