Exam 13: Employee Rights and Discipline

A peer-review system, also called a "complaint committee," is composed only of people whose jobs are similar to the person appearing before the board.

Dismissal is the final disciplinary action.

To keep organizational rules effective, employers should do all of the following EXCEPT which one?

Managers have virtually unlimited discretion in taking disciplinary action against an employee.

In the Ontario legislature, members of the provincial parliament (MPPs)voted to increase minimum wage. What type of employment law does this represent?

Which of the following pieces of legislation provides for an employee to see his or her personnel file?

The step between a verbal warning and termination in progressive discipline is the disciplinary interview.

Which of the following does NOT belong in the disciplinary model outlined in the text?

Which of the following best describes an open-door policy?

Employees do not have the right to have an attorney present during an investigative interview.

The human resource manager has invited Tammy for a meeting to discuss reports of her misconduct. The two parties will have joint discussion and problem-solving activities to address and overcome any proven misconduct. What type of disciplinary program is evident here?

Peer-review boards consist only of people whose jobs are similar to that of the person appearing before the board.

The courts have ruled that employers can monitor the computer use and Internet access of employees when they are at work. What is a key reason the courts give for this?

Which statement is NOT true regarding the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)?

In which of the following scenarios can an employer summarily dismiss an employee in a non-union environment for his or her activities outside of the workplace?

Scenario 13.2 Woodbridge Group Inc. (WG), a Canadian consultancy firm, is having a hard time keeping all its employees as a result of the last recession. Most of its clients are based in the United States, and tighter restrictions there have led to some clients severing business ties with WG. With the loss of business, the company claims it cannot afford to continue paying employees even though the company is still profitable. Management is planning to let some of them go, and plans to give them four weeks' pay in lieu of notice. While these employees are not unionized, they do have contracts that entitle them to fixed amounts of weeks worked for each year they have been with WG. -Refer to Scenario 13.2. If WG terminates the contracts as planned and employees sue for wrongful dismissal, which of the following does NOT play a role in the judge's decision to award reasonable notice?

The correct sequence of progressive discipline is as follows: (1)written warning, (2)oral warning, (3)suspension, and (4)discharge.

Employees are correct in assuming that their rights to privacy extend to email and voice mail messages.

ABC Inc. has a disciplinary system whereby its programs are designed to motivate an employee to correct his or her misconduct voluntarily. What type of disciplinary program is ABC Inc. most likely using?

Employees have statutory rights that are derived from contracts.