Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

Which of the following was NOT concentrated on by early job-safety legislation:

The NLRB has jurisdiction over all unionized employees and all government workers.

"Yellow-dog" contracts, in which employees agree not to join a union as a condition of employment, were made unlawful by:

Which of the following is not true about health or safety standards set by OSHA:

Right-to-work laws:

About ____ of the working population are serious alcohol abusers.

Several states have created a "whistle blower" exception to the doctrine of employment-at-will.

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. Pierre filed a complaint with the NLRB, alleging unfair labor practices at Spotted Frog. Which of the following actions are likely to occur after the filing of the complaint?

____ was the first state to enact a worker's compensation law in 1911.

A public policy exception to employment at-will gives the employee the right to sue for wrongful discharge, which is a violation of the employment contract.

The intent of the Norris-La Guardia Act was to:

In most states, an employee may not be terminated at-will for refusing to commit an illegal act.

The Taft-Hartley Act does not prohibit unions from which activity:

A contract signed by a worker agreeing not to join a union is called a(n):

The general counsel of the NLRB is responsible for over-seeing the investigation and prosecution of unfair labor practice charges.

In varying degrees across the states, the courts do not look with favor on certain contracts that at times are made part of the employment arrangement, which of the following is not in that category:

The first phase of the National Labor Relations Act is known as the:

A collective bargaining agreement ends and the union and management continue to bargain for a new contract while the workers go on strike. Management hires new workers to replace the union workers on strike. By law, when the strike ends:

Which of the following types of drug tests is required by the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act:

A(n) ____ is one in which employees agree not to leave and go into competition against the employer or go to work for a competitor for a certain time.