Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

A(n) ____ is one in which one party promises not to sue another in case of an injury caused by a tort or some other event.

Which of the following is an act prohibited by the Taft-Hartley Act:

Workers' compensation began as a program in several states before it was taken over by the federal government.

Since OSHA cannot inspect all workplaces it tends to focus on those:

Workers will not be protected under the NLRA if:

OSHA may impose penalties for which of the following:

If an employer refuses to bargain with a union in good faith, the NLRB may impose a collective bargaining agreement on the employer.

Under the ____ employers with 50 or more employees must grant workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave after childbirth or adoption; to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, or parent; or in case of an employee's own serious illness.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) requires employers to find new jobs for all those employees it fires due to plant closings.

A primary boycott is:

Lockouts are legal as long as:

Some critics argue that the current worker's compensation system is flawed because too many awards are given for permanent partial disabilities.

The ____ allows employers to submit employee information electronically to the federal government, which checks the information against a database containing citizenship and work authorization records to determine if a potential employee can legally work in the United States.

Under the hazard communication standard, a material safety data sheet must identify:

Mandatory vesting under ERISA means that an employee:

OSHA inspectors must follow rigid guidelines that give them little discretion; to do otherwise allows discriminatory treatment that has been held illegal.

In the Beck case, where non-union workers at AT&T were required by a union to pay "agency fees," instead of union dues, to contribute to the expense of representing these workers in collective bargaining. The Supreme Court held that the union:

The process by which the employer and the union, on behalf of workers in a bargaining unit, negotiate a labor contract is:

A company that has more than $25,000 worth of business with the federal government and does not notify employees that as a condition of employment, the employer must be notified of any drug-related convictions that occur, and the employer must notify the federal government would be in violation of:

State licensing and regulation of occupations is supposed to: