Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

Employers may use the E-Verify program to check employee eligibility status.

Under the hazard communication standard, an employer must develop a written hazard communication program.

Under ERISA, all employees are eligible for participation in a company's employee benefit plans if the employee:

The ____ states that employers must provide employees a workplace "free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm" and that employers must "comply with occupational safety and health standards" issued by OSHA.

Employees may be required to sign, as a condition of employment, an agreement that they will not leave the company and go to work for themselves or a competitor firm in a position that could inflict competitive injury on the employer. This is called:

If an at-will employee is fired for reporting for jury duty, the termination may be in violation of public policy.

During a union election, which of the following may employers say?

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

Anti-raiding covenants are:

The ____ is an administrative agency charged with overseeing the National Labor Relations Act.

Workers' compensation was first adopted in the U.S. in Wisconsin in 1911.

In Zambelli Fireworks v. Wood the appeals court held that the noncompete agreement Wood had signed with his former employer, Zambelli, was too restrictive and could not be enforced.

Employer complaints about workers' compensation generally revolve around the argument that the system:

The Clayton Act of 1914 established the National Labor Relations Board.

Collective bargaining refers to the process by which the:

The ____ was designed to guarantee the expectations of retirement plan participants and to promote the growth of private pension plans.

Critics of the current minimum-wage system argue that:

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, employees may take leave to care for a spouse.

In Ballalatak v. All Iowa Agriculture Assn. the Iowa Supreme Court held that a supervisor who reported that his company may cheat some employees out of worker compensation benefits would receive whistle-blower protection.

The ____ covers employees exposed to hazardous chemicals.