Exam 22: Employment Law

A whistleblower is an employee who reveals confidential information about a fellow employee to an employer.

Vinnie,the owner of Café Rico,knows about,but does not take any action to prevent,the sexual harassment of employees.Vinnie and the café may be liable for such harassment by

Healthy Harvest Company runs a candy and fruit processing and packaging plant.Most of Healthy Harvest's business is done during holiday seasons,especially between Halloween and New Year's Day,and in the spring.The company hires a large temporary workforce during its busiest times.Occasionally,a position opens for an individual with highly specialized skills,particularly to operate and maintain the company's inventory and sales control systems.Can Healthy Harvest hire noncitizens for its temporary,seasonal work? Can the company hire a noncitizen with special skills for certain jobs? If so,what procedures must the employer follow in both situations to do this hiring? If not,how can Healthy Harvest be assured that it is hiring only citizens?

The privacy rights of private-sector employees are governed by state law,which varieswidely.

All employers must provide their employees with up to twelve months of family or medical leave.

The Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 prohibits most private employers from doing all of the following except

Investors Fund,a large financial institution,announces that it will start monitoring its employees' electronic communications. If Mary,an Investors Fund employee,resists this policy,her best argu-ment is that the monitoring violates

Employers that fall under the provisions of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act of 1935 are taxed at regular intervals.

Whistleblower statutes protect employees from retaliatorydischarge.

An employer may avoid laws regulating monitoring activities by informing employees that they are subject to monitoring.

Protection against discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not extend to situations in which individuals are harassed by members of the same gender.

There is federal regulation of employers' retirement plans for employees.

If an employee dies in a work-related incident,the employer must notify OSHA within eight hours.

Truman applies for a job at Skylight Canopy Corporation for which he is well quali-fied,but for which he is rejected.Skylight continues to seek applicants and eventually fills the posi-tion with a person who is not a member of a mi-nority.Truman is most likely to succeed in a suit against Skylight for discrimination if he is a member of

Clerical Workers Union represents the employees of Miracle Medical Research Company.The management of the firm refuses to bargain with the union over the hiring of unnecessary workers.This violates

Melanie files an employment discrimination suit against Natural Gas Industries Corp.under Title VII on a disparate-impact theory.To succeed,Melanie must show that a protected group of people are adversely affected by any of the following except the employer's

Federal law does notrestrict employers' use of the results of genetics test.

An employer may nothire an illegal immigrant under any circumstances.

Children must be at least thirteen years old to work in hazardous occupations.

Sunny Energy Company wants to genetically test its workers for potentially significant,future health problems.Sunny may