Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

The Landrum-Griffin Act includes a "bill of rights" for union members in dealing with employers.

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. At least what fraction of the Spotted Frog employees must vote in favor of WWA being their collective bargaining representative for the union to be certified by the NLRB?

Exculpatory agreements as part of the employment process are generally held in disfavor by the courts.

One of the first steps in the unionization process is for interested employees to contact a union for assistance.

Researchers comparing labor market flexibility in various nations found that:

The Taft-Hartley Act requires unions to bargain in good faith with employers about wages and working conditions.

What is not true about the operation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act?

Workers' compensation law:

The right to grieve an issues belongs to:

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, an individual manager who violates FMLA rights may be held personally liable.

Secondary boycotts are generally illegal under the NLRA.

Employees may be required to sign, as a condition of employment, an agreement that they will not recruit fellow employees for another company if they leave for another place of employment. This is called:

Under the hazard communication standard, a written hazard communication program?must include:

Under federal law, commercial truck drivers must be tested for drug and alcohol use if they are in an accident.

When a state passes a right-to-work law it thereby outlaws union shops.

The Wagner Act of 1935 is also known as the National Labor Relations Act and it created the National Labor Relations Board.

About ____ of private sector employees belong to unions.

The whistle-blower exception to at-will employment status is more common for government workers.

A majority of workers can vote to decertify a union and end its representation role in their employment.

The hazard communication standard requires employers using hazardous chemicals to do all but which of the following?