Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

Unions and employers who negotiate contracts have a duty to bargain in good faith. This means both sides must do all of the following except:

The Norris-La Guardia Act prohibits:

Certification of a union by the NLRB means the union will:

When an employer fires an employee in violation of a public policy exception to the presumption of at-will employment, the employee may sue for:

Drug testing programs are not subject to collective bargaining since that is a matter of federal and state policy.

The cost to business of substance abuse, in lower productivity and higher medical insurance costs, is estimated to be about:

In non-right-to-work states, employees at unionized workplaces are required to pay agency fees, equal to a large percent of union dues, if they refuse to pay union dues. According to the Supreme Court, a union may:

The Supreme Court has held in several cases that unions are not to use agency fees for political purposes without permission. As a result:

The National Labor Relations Board's composition changes based on:

In Ballalatak v. All Iowa Agriculture Association, where Ballalatak contended that he was fired for inquiring into whether the company was fulfilling its workers' compensation obligation and the general manager claimed he was fired for insubordination, the Iowa state supreme court held that Ballalatak:

Which of the following is not an exception to the employment-at-will doctrine, for which workers may not be fired, at least in some states:

Hasenwinkel worked as a nurse at a Mosaic facility for adults with intellectual disabilities. She took FMLA leave seven times from 2010 to 2012. She was warned that her job performance was inadequate. After exhausting all leave in 2012 she did not return to work and was fired. She sued Mosaic for interfering with her FMLA rights. The district court ruled against her. The court of appeals held that Hasenwinkel:

During a strike after a collective bargaining agreement has expired, an employer is permitted to hire new workers to work in place of the striking workers, but must fire the non-union workers after the strike ends.

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

A right-to-work law:

Workers who receive maximum workers' compensation payments normally receive about two-thirds of their gross wages, up to a state-imposed weekly maximum.

Workers' compensation was created by the federal government to deal with problems of injured workers during the 1933 coal strikes.

A place of employment where all employees are represented by a union and most employees are union members, but non-union workers must pay fees to the union, is called:

Union fees and dues are set by majority vote of the union members.

The Landrum-Griffin Act was intended to: