Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

Copies of utility bills, such as electric service bills, may be accepted as proof of personal identity and employment eligibility.

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.

Almost half the states have adopted laws forbidding employers from giving drug tests to job applicants.

The whistle blower exception to at will employment is most likely to apply to:

Workers' compensation law:

Which of the following qualifies as a "serious health condition" and entitles an employee to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act:

XYZ moves from New Jersey (a non-right-to-work state) to Texas (a right-to-work state). The union continues to represent XYZ's employees. In Texas, employees can:

In right-to-work states if a majority of the workers vote to have union representation, dissenting workers may refuse to pay the union for providing collective bargaining benefits.

Under the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act, which employees must be tested for alcohol and drug use?

Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), who besides the affected employees must be given advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoff:

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. After Pierre slips on the grape skins, which of the following is most likely to provide him with benefits for his injuries? He may file a:

The National Labor Relations Act was enacted in parts. Which law(s) is(are) part of it?

ERISA deals only with retirement pension benefit plans.

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:

Which of the following is not an unfair labor practice by a union:

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.

The Taft-Hartley Act furthered the federal policy begun with the Wagner Act to encourage union growth.

Among the "mandatory subjects" of collective bargaining is the length of lunch breaks.

In Chicago Teachers Union, the Supreme Court held that unions must account to nonunion workers who pay agency fees regarding the use of their fees.

Which of the following is an objective of workers' compensation law: