Exam 13: Employee Rights and Discipline

The minimum advance notice of plant closings or layoffs affecting 50 or more full-time employees required by the Workers' Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act of 1989 is:

Which of the following is NOT an example of how an implied contract may become binding?

Approximately _____ workers are discharged each year.

In law,negligence is the failure to honor established contracts.

The ____ requires that an employee's medical history be kept in a file separate from other personal information.

Termination meetings should be held:

Under the employment-at-will doctrine,who can terminate the employment relationship?

In a peer-review board,employee representatives are:

The employment-at-will doctrine gives managers and supervisors the unrestricted right of termination.

During her interview,Angela is told by her future manager that if she is a good worker she will have a permanent job with the company.Her manager has likely created an implied contract with Angela.

Telling an employee that their job is secure as long as they perform satisfactorily and are loyal to the organization does not make an implied contract binding.

Explicit contracts are not enforceable in court if either the employee or employer violates any provisions of the agreement.

In _____ a court found that a provision in an employee handbook constituted a unilateral enforceable contract with employees.

With an open-door policy,decisions tend to be consistent across managers.

What are the key components of a good disciplinary model?

Under a conventional step-review appeal procedure,the last step involves which of the following employee groups?

Wrongful discharge is considered proper under the employment-at-will doctrine.

The employment-at-will doctrine states that either the employee or the employer may terminate the employment relationship for any reason.

The expectations of fair exchange of employment obligations between an employee and employer is referred to as:

An implied contract may result from statements found in employee handbooks or other employment documents.