Deck 21: Employment Relationships

Question 1

State law regulates overtime pay.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Only state law governs drug tests of private-sector employees.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

In most states,employers who show an ability to pay claims do not need to buy workers' compensa?tion insurance.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Employer who willfully violates safety regulations can be prosecuted under state criminal laws.

Question 5

There is no general duty on employers to keep workplaces safe.

Question 6

Courts in a few states have held that all employment contracts an im?plied covenant of good faith.

Question 7

Whistleblowing occurs when an employer signals the end of a work day by sounding a buzzer,ringing a bell,or otherwise "blowing the whistle "

Question 8

Only employees contribute under federal law to help pay for benefits that will partially make up for their loss of income on retirement.

Question 9

Generally,under employment-at-will doctrine,an employer may fire an employee at any time for any reason.

Question 10

Certain employers must provide their employees with up to twelve weeks of paid family or medical leave during any twelve-month period.

Question 11

Any employee who works more than eight hours per day must be paid overtime.

Question 12

Employers can require or cause employees,but not job applicants,to take lie-detector tests.

Question 13

Under federal law,the term wages includes only a set amount of pay ex?pressed in dollars.

Question 14

Normally,if employees are informed that their communications are be?ing monitored,they cannot expect those communications to be private.

Question 15

A large business must provide notice before implementing a mass layoff.

Question 16

For works whose jobs have been terminated,federal law provides no right to continued health-care coverage.

Question 17

A violation of federal family and medical leave requirements may result in liability for an employer but not personal liability for a supervisor.

Question 18

Employee contributions to pension plans vest immediately.

Question 19

To be eligible for unemployment compensation,a worker must be willing and able to work.

Question 20

Children under fourteen years of age are not allowed to work.

Question 21

Delicious Fruit-of-the-Month Company currently employs five hundred full-time workers and two hundred part-time seasonal workers.Because business has declined,Delicious plans to close a plant that employs more than fifty full-time workers.Advance notice of the layoff must be sent to

A)affected workers or their union representative.
B)all workers,even those who are not being laid off.
C)potential customers and suppliers.
D)no one.

Question 22

Alex is an employee of Bigg Corporation.To help pay for employees' loss of income on retirement,contributions are required by law to be paid by

A)Alex and Bigg.
B)Alex only.
C)Bigg only.
D)neither Alex nor Bigg.

Question 23

Interstate Distribution,Inc.(IDI),provides its employees with an e-mail system.IDI notifies them that it will monitor their communications over the system.Some employees file a suit against IDI,claiming a violation of privacy.The court is most likely to hold that,with respect to commu?nications over the e-mail system,

A)the employees did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
B)the employer violated the employees' privacy rights.
C)federal law prohibits the employer's "intentional interception."
D)federal law prohibits the employees' privacy claim.

Question 24

Uri is an employee of Verity Security Services.For Uri to obtain the benefits of federal wage-hour requirements,Verity must be engaged in

A)business activity.
B)employment at will.
C)international commerce.
D)interstate commerce.

Question 25

Richard is an employee of Stealth Security Company.Stealth discharges Richard for refusing to infiltrate a competitor's organization to learn its trade secrets.With respect to the employment-at-will doctrine,this is

A)an example of the doctrine.
B)an exception based on contract theory.
C)an exception based on public policy.
D)an exception based on tort theory.

Question 26

Lena offers Miguel a job,representing falsely that it will be long term.In reliance,Miguel takes the job but is laid off shortly thereafter and suc?cessfully sues Lena for fraud.With respect to the employment-at-will doctrine,this is

A)an example of the doctrine.
B)an exception based on contract theory.
C)an exception based on public policy.
D)an exception based on tort theory.

Question 27

Machine Operations,Inc.(MO),employs four hundred workers at three locations in three states.Workers who do not have a right to continue group health benefits provided by MO for a limited time after the loss of their jobs include those who

A)are fired for gross misconduct.
B)are laid off for budgetary reasons.
C)have their hours decreased from full-time to part-time.
D)quit their jobs voluntarily.

Question 28

Nita works as an employee for Optimal Sales Corporation.To protect Nita and other employees from arbitrary discharge,courts have created excep?tions to the employment-at-will doctrine based on

A)an implied agency theory.
B)a public policy theory.
C)a standard operating agreement theory.
D)a "fair and balanced" theory.

Question 29

Jenna is fifteen years old.Under the Fair Labor Standards Act,Jenna cannot work

A)in the entertainment industry.
B)in a hazardous occupation.
C)for her parents.
D)in the delivery of newspapers.

Question 30

Miley takes temporary medical leave from her job at Lumber Mill Inc.to care for a parent with a serious health condition.When she attempts to return to work,Lumber Mill refuses to reinstate her.Under the Family and Medical Leave Act,Miley may obtain

A)an award of key employee status but no injunctive or economic relief.
B)a cease-and-desist order or other injunction but no economic award.
C)double damages,job reinstatement,a promotion,and more.
D)nothing.

Question 31

Home Healthcare Services wants to its employees and applicants to undergo genetic testing.Home may

A)discharge employees who have a genetic predisposition to disease.
B)discriminate against applicants who have a genetic predisposition to disease.
C)test its employees for a genetic predisposition to disease.
D)none of the choices.

Question 32

Tedium Accounting Corporation,a private employer,handles bookkeeping for small employers.In most circumstances,with excep?tions,federal law clearly pro?hibits Tedium from subjecting its employees to

A)drug tests.
B)electronic monitoring of business communications.
C)genetic tests.
D)lie-detector tests.

Question 33

Rich works as a forklift operator for Storage Warehouse Company.Assuming that Rich meets other requirements,the maximum number of hours that he can work per week without over?time pay is

A)thirty-nine.
B)forty.
C)forty-one.
D)unlimited.

Question 34

Lee works as an employee for Maximum Industries,Inc. ,a private em?ployer.Maximum announces that it will start random drug testing of its employees.If Lee resists this policy,he may look for protection under

A)a federal administrative agency rule.
B)a state constitution or statute.
C)the U.S.Constitution.
D)all of the choices.

Question 35

Lucretia retires from her job as a project manager for Medico Pharma,Inc.Federal law provides for

A)timely and uninterrupted payment of private pension benefits.
B)employers' required establishment of pension plans.
C)vesting of employees' rights to all pension benefits immediately.
D)termination of pension benefits on employment termination.

Question 36

Chuck works for Deepwater Drilling Corporation.While operating a Deepwater drill,Chuck suffers an injury.Under state workers' compen?sation laws,Chuck will be compensated only if

A)he does not have health insurance.
B)he is completely disabled.
C)his injury was accidental.
D)his injury was intentional.

Question 37

First National Bank may subject its employees to lie-detector tests when investigating

A)health and medical conditions.
B)losses attributable to theft.
C)prior work history.
D)suspected drug use.

Question 38

Emma,Frick,Glenda,and Huey are employees of different-sized employ?ers in different industries.Under the Fair Labor Standards Act,a mini?mum wage must be paid to employees in

A)all industries.
B)covered industries only.
C)no industries.
D)small-business industries only.

Question 39

Ewa is a current employee of Financial Accounting,Inc.Gomer,a former Financial employee who is currently unemployed,collects unemploy?ment compensa?tion.This is provided by a tax on

A)Ewa and Gomer only.
B)Ewa,Financial,and Gomer.
C)Financial only.
D)none of these parties.

Question 40

Myron is an employee of Nero.Either party can terminate the employ?ment relationship at any time for any reason without liability.With re?spect to the employment-at-will doctrine,this is

A)an example of the doctrine.
B)an exception based on contract theory.
C)an exception based on public policy.
D)an exception based on tort theory.

Question 41

Carla,a waitress at Diners Coffee Shop,notices that the kitchen staff is not wearing protective gloves while preparing food,a violation of state law.Carla reports this to Esau,her manager,but no steps are taken.Carla then tells Free Press,a local newspaper.Free Press runs a story on the violations.Business at Diners drops 65 percent.Can Diners fire Carla for these actions?

Question 42

Borealis Power Company is subject to mandatory workers' compensation laws in the states in which it does business.Chad and Dex work for Borealis as part of a crew that travels to remote locations to repair downed power lines and other damaged equipment.At a distant site,Chad is in?jured in an accident that is entirely Dex's fault.Chad files a claim for workers' compensation.Should the claim be granted? What would be Borealis's best defense against it?