Length: 1200 words: 700-word memo, 500-word analysis  Case  You are an HR practitioner for a public library. The library employees are represented by the Civil Service Union (CSU). There is a collective agreement between the library and CSU that expires one year from now. One of the employee groups in the bargaining unit are student pages. Student pages are high-school students who are under the age of 18. They perform a variety of clerical tasks in libraries on a part-time basis.  The collective agreement between CSU and the Library sets out the terms and conditions of the pages’ employment. The relevant passage reads:  Student Pages  The rates of pay for student pages shall be as follows:   Step 1: Minimum wage plus      10%  Step 2: Minimum wage plus      20%  Step 3: Minimum wage plus      30%  Minimum wage means the minimum wage established from time to time by the provincial government.  Employment as a student page shall terminate on the 18th birthday of a student page or their graduation from Grade 12, whichever is first.  Job Duties: The main duties and responsibilities of a Student Page are:   Sort library materials, load      materials onto book trucks, and shelve materials.  Gather unshelved material      and re-shelve it.  Straighten shelves and check      to ensure books are correctly shelved.  Check in returned materials      and process holds, although such work shall not constitute more than 50%      of their workload.  Pay Administration: Student pages shall serve a six (6) month probationary period. A successful annual performance appraisal shall make a page eligible to move up one step on the pay grid.   Vacation: Student pages are entitled to two (2) weeks of vacation.   Other Leaves and Benefits: Student pages are not eligible for the other leave provisions or the benefits outlined in the collective agreement.   The library employees approximately 100 student pages, with roughly 33 pages aging-out of the program each year.  The newly elected conservative government has introduced legislation that rolls back various labour law entitlements effective next week. One of the changes is the introduction of a new minimum wage for youth under 18 that is $2 per hour lower than the $15 per hour minimum wage for workers aged 18 and over.   Under these changes, the pages’ wages will be reduced. For example, at present, pages on step 1 earn $16.50 per hour ($15 plus 10%). Next week, these pages will earn $14.30 per hour ($13 plus 10%). This is a 13.3% reduction in their hourly pay.  The HR manager, Ashok Kumar, is concerned that lowering the pages’ wages poses organizational risks that he must draw to the attention of the library’s senior executives. The HR Manager directs you to write a memo to him regarding this change. Your memo must:  Summarize the issue.  Identify at least two organizational risks      associated with lowering the wages paid to student pages.  Identify at least one option that would allow      the library to avoid lowering the wages of student pages and the risk(s)      associated with the option(s) you developed.  Recommend a course of action (either lower the pages’ wages or      adopt an option to avoid lowering the pages’ wages) and provide a      rationale for your recommendation.  Write a 700-word memo to the HR manager in response to this request by the end of the week. Ensure that you use appropriate course concepts, theories, and terminology in your memo.  Instructions  This assignment has two components:        a.              a memo of approximately 700 words.        b.              a 500-word reflection and analysis of your memo.        Full sentences and paragraphs are required,      although you may use bulleted or numbered lists where they increase      clarity.   Before writing the memo, consider the      different options available to the government and the pros and cons of      each. Then begin drafting your memo.   After writing your memo, reflect on and      analyze your memo, and address the following questions in about 500      words:      a.              What organizational goal(s) were you trying to achieve in writing this      memo?      b.              Why did you make the recommendation that you made? Specifically, what      factors did you consider in making your recommendation?      c.              How do you think the union will react if the library decides to lower the      wages of student pages?      d.              How do you think student pages will react if the library decides to lower      the wages of student pages?

If you were an eighth grade teacher (who had taken this course), what would you do in the following situation and why? One of your students says about a character in a story, "She ain't afraid." Another student says, "That's not the right way to talk because ain't is an improper contraction."