Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

Workers who are injured at work due to their own negligence do not collect workers' compensation benefits.

A U.S. passport is a document accepted as proof of personal identity and employment eligibility.

Employment-at-will:

An employee who reports an employer's illegal for private gain is ____ to be protected by the whistle blower exception than an employee who reports an employer's illegal action in order to expose unsafe conditions.

Employment-at-will:

Which of the following things should be stated in a company's substance abuse policy:

Workers who sign authorization cards become represented by the union of their choice from that point forward.

A "bill of rights" for union members is included in:

The law in China prohibits worker unionization as the state protects all workers.

Under the Landrum-Griffin Act:

A(n) ____ is one in which employees are required to sign, as a condition of employment, an agreement that they will not recruit fellow employees for another company when they leave their current place of employment.

Which of the following is not a benefit category of workers' compensation:

An employer has 1,000 employees of which 550 are suddenly terminated without notice. Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the fired employees can:

The most important legislation regulating private employee retirement plans is the:

It is likely that a company has the right to test prospective employees for drug use in a pre-employment screening.

A noncompete agreement is one in which:

If the union refuses to take an employee's concern to arbitration, the employee must sue the union for violation of the:

Traditionally the minimum wage has averaged about:

A grievance arbitration clause means:

Fact Pattern 16-1 Spotted Frog Winery California, produces 75,000 cases of wine a year. It employs 52 full-time workers and, during harvest, another 25 people as pickers. During the 2011 harvest, some employees were unhappy about working conditions and discussed unionizing. They contacted the Winery Workers of America (WWA) for help. Spotted Frog management was upset. If it had to pay workers more (as the union promised), the winery would lose its slim profits. Believing he was acting correctly, the president distributed a memo stating that any employee caught discussing unionization would be fired. Pierre, the wine master at Spotted Frog, was furious about the memo and became an advocate for the union cause. Management would not fire Pierre because he gave their wine its unique taste. But they did fire ten employees who spoke with Pierre. WWA collected authorization cards from employees, requested a representation election, and won a close election. The union, with Pierre as its agent, began negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Negotiations went badly as the management rejected every proposal. WWA called a strike against Spotted Frog. After two weeks, management caved in and signed a contract, so its employees returned to work. As Pierre entered the winery, he did not see some grape skins on the floor. He slipped and was injured. -Refer to Fact Pattern 16-1. In its drive to unionize, at least what percent of workers at Spotted Frog must sign authorization cards before a representation election can be requested?