Exam 15: Employment and Labor Regulations

Mandatory vesting under ERISA means that an employee:

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

In non-right-to-work states, employees at unionized workplaces are required to pay agency fees, equal to a large percent of union dues, if they refuse to pay union dues. According to the Supreme Court, a union may:

Some supporters argue that the minimum wage laws are necessary to ensure that people are able to buy necessities of life.

To promote productive collective bargaining, Congress provided for certain activities to be protected under the National Labor Relations Act. Protected activities are:

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

Although employers may refuse to allow an OSHA inspector in without a warrant:

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. The strike called by WWA is an example of a(n):

Which of the following is NOT part of the National Labor Relations Act:

State right-to-work laws are allowed by:

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

Which of the following is a common problem related to illegal discrimination based on immigration issues:

In Zambelli Fireworks Manufacturing Co. v. Wood, where Zambelli sued Wood for violating the noncompete agreement in his contract, the appeals court held that:

A union is on strike against a bakery. To pressure the bakery, the union pickets other businesses in town to tell their customers not to patronize these merchants until the strike is over. Such pickets are illegal.

Employers complain that workers' compensation insurance is too expensive. Every year employers collectively pay premiums of about:

In an agency shop nonunion employees are represented by the union and have ____ deducted from their paychecks that go to cover the costs of union services.

OSHA may not impose penalties for which of the following:

A major duty of the NLRB is to determine whether or not employees want to be represented by a union.

For the NLRB to oversee a representation election, at least what percent of employees must request an election?

Which agency is responsible for doing studies to help standards for workplace safety: