Sullivan College of Technology Difference between Law & Regulation Responses

Discussion Question: First, in your own words, explain the difference between a law and a regulation. Second, briefly research and identify 2 or 3 regulations that your organization or past organization is/was expected to follow. Please explain them and their impact on your organization in terms of whether the organization sees compliance as a value-add or as a cost. Third, under what circumstances would it be reasonable to be out of compliance with any regulation?

MY ANSWER; A law can be defined as a rule that is put to govern and regulate everyone equally. Laws are put to apply to everyone in a state. On the other side, Regulations enforce a law to hold organizations under a certain agency. The agency has to be a governmental agency, and it does not require to follow the billing process. One of the regulations that the Ford Motor company assembly plant was expected to follow is environmental regulations. Compliance with these emission laws meant an increase in the cost of production. Ford Motor Company sells its vehicles worldwide, which means that it designs cars that do not need to be adjusted to fit different states’ emission laws which is expensive (Boston academic publishing 2013). The other regulation is the corporate average fuel economy regulation. Ford had to make cars that were safe and fuel-efficient as well. It means that they had to use new technologies to develop effective car models, which is an additional expense. The only reason why noncompliance would be reasonable is if the regulation does not apply to the type of business you are in. There are acts and rules for different business sets, but not all of them are applicable. Therefore, intentional omission of that regulation would be reasonable.

Boston academic publishing (2013). Business law and the legal environment version. Inc., d.b.a. FlatWorld. All right reserved.

DIRECTIONS; RESPOND TO FOUR CLASSMATES…. 100 WORDS. MAKE RESPONSES RELATABLE TO MY ANSWER AND ASK FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS THAT RELATE TO THE DISCUSSION BOARD.

RESPONSE ONE…I would agree that laws are sot more to govern individuals and that regulations are more focused on governing organizations. I believe that law affects both individuals and organizations, but that regulation are indeed much more concerned with governing organizations.

You use the word “regulate” in describing how laws are different from regulations, yet regulate is the root word of regulation. I find the word “protect” would work better in that sentence as a descriptor of laws. What are your thoughts? do you agree?

I agree that business or market irrelevance is a reasonable reason to disregard a regulation. I heard through the grapevine, that some people have changed the definition of what they create or what kind of business they are in to argue irrelevance when facing a regulation. For instance, if there is a regulation that states one must have a license or sell prepared food, so a clever person decides to sell boxed food where after the transaction its expected the buyer will ask the seller to cook their newly purchased food. This way the seller is selling non-prepared food and just being a nice person when asked to cook it. What are your thoughts on this kind of tactic to get around regulations and make them seem irrelevant?

RESPONSE TWO….I liked your generalization that laws are meant to govern people and regulations are meant to govern organizations. I think that is an apt way to look at it for our purposes in this class. When I think of motor company and transportation regulations, I think of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). What agency specifically set the regulations that you mentioned?

Your post lead me to think about United States regulations verses international regulations. Ford Motor company sells cars worldwide and therefore must have to deal with many varied regulations from many different countries. A company that is currently national and considering expanding internationally would have to consider whether their are any regulations on their industry in the countries they are looking to expand to. Additionally, a company would have to consider that countries employment laws and regulations if the company plans to have employees in their new business territory. This could make company growth much more difficult, even when expanding to countires nearby like Canada or Mexico.

RESPONSE THREE…Correct laws are pertaining to whoever is under their control. While regulations are focused on if you work under an agency’s control so It could be where you live versus where you work.

As far as the emission laws don’t Ford have a California model that meets stricter OSHA guidelines allowing them to be sold in California? These emissions laws really could hurt companies like Ford and Dodge whose big sellers trucks(especially diesel trucks) struggle to meet CAFE standards. I believe Volkwagon was just sued because their engineers were making the data look like it passed the tests but in reality, they did not.

In this case, it wasn’t theat they didnt follow the regulation but the blantantly tried to counter act it and hide what they had done. So in reality their is no reason to be out of compliance of a regulation unless the person out of compliance has not been at work.

RESPONSE FOUR….Eryn, why do you think these regulations were permitted to pass and then be enforced? Are these regulations constitutional? Do you think they would be defendable if they were challenged and fought in court?I also noticed the same issue as Brendan seemed to notice which was the discrepancy between regulate and regulation. However I disagree when describing regulation as protect. I think enforce is more appropriate although I wouldn’t be surprised if something in the middle made the most sense.