Exam 12: Employment Relationships and Labor Law

If an employee is killed on the job, OSHA requires that the employer notify the administration as soon as possible but no later than ________ after the accident.

Which of the following is also called the Taft-Hartley Act?

If an employee has a retirement savings account, the employer promises to pay a monthly sum to the account, ordinarily based on the employee's length of service and final salary at the date of retirement.

An employee group with mutual interests and goals that is an appropriate unit for negotiating union contracts is called a ________ unit.

Employers are not bound by the FLSA regarding employees classified as ________ employees.

The Fair Labor Standards Act imposes restrictions on hiring workers under:

Explain how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 have affected the U.S. health care system since their provisions took effect?

Kathy is a college student who enjoys spending her summers at the beach. For the past four years, starting as a junior in high school, she has worked as a waitress at a local beach resort restaurant from mid-June through mid-August. If Kathy is injured while working in the restaurant, she will be eligible for workers' compensation benefits.

If an employee in a unionized company believes that the employer is violating the collective bargaining agreement, he or she may file a ________ and the union will arbitrate the matter on behalf of the employee.

Generally, regarding employment-at-will, employees may be fired just because the boss doesn't like them.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act applies to situations in which entire plants are to be shut down or a layoff is to occur. WARN applies to:

Eligible workers who take leave under the Family Medical Leave Act:

Protection of employee medical information is addressed by the:

The Family and Medical Leave Act applies to employers with a minimum of:

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act requires that employers provide health care coverage to employees by 2014.

Employees who are classified as key employees and take leave are not automatically entitled to Family and Medical Leave Act reinstatement protections and guarantees.

The Fair Labor Standards Act does not cover all employees.

Olivia works as an advertising executive for a large public relations firm in New York. Her boss gives her tickets to attend a formal event in Washington, D.C., that will be attended by many of the firm's clients. He expects her to represent the firm and generally solidify client relations through her attendance. While mingling with the attendees, she slips on a spilled drink and is severely injured in the fall. If Olivia files for workers' compensation, will she be eligible for benefits? Yes, Olivia will be entitled to workers' compensation benefits. Eligibility is based on whether the injury resulted from an accident and whether she was hurt in the course of her employment. Certainly, slipping on a spilled drink is accidental. Although she was not in her New York office and was perhaps only indirectly performing advertising-executive-related duties, she was in attendance at the formal affair at the direction of her employer and she was performing company-related goodwill tasks. Courts will determine that she was acting in the course of her employment when injured and will award her workers' compensation benefits.

The Fair Labor Standards Act was originally intended to cover employers engaged in:

Leon works in an office environment and, during lunch, closes his office door and uses his personal laptop computer to search the Internet for porn, accessing the company's server via an ethernet cable connection. The company may monitor his computer usage even though he is using a personally owned computer.