Question 1

Social Security provides benefits for workers who become disabled on the job.

Accepted Answer

A worker disabled on the job can be entitled to payments from accrued Social Security benefits.

Question 2

Employers are increasingly employing elaborate employee-monitoring measures primarily to limit their risk of ________ liability in areas such as defamation and employment discrimination.

Accepted Answer

vicarious

Question 3

An employee with a salary in the top 10 percent of the company's payroll is classified as a ________ employee for FLSA purposes.

Accepted Answer

key

Question 4

A short-term strike called without union authorization is called a ________ strike.

Accepted Answer

The answer of A short-term strike called without union authorization...

Question 5

Expressly firing someone for whistle-blowing constitutes the act of _____.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Expressly firing someone for whistle-blowing constitutes the...

Question 6

Employers are not required to offer their employees health care benefits.

Accepted Answer

Although new statutes may impose penalties on employers that fail to offer health care benefits, employers are not required to offer benefits.

Question 7

Leah is a first-year elementary school teacher at a private religious school. The parents and kids love her, and she gets along with everyone. One month after starting, she's called into the headmaster's office and handed an envelope containing spring-break college photos of her topless, guzzling beer and alcohol, while sitting in various men's laps. The headmaster informs her that she is terminated immediately and that she must clean out her desk and remove all personal belongings by the end of the day. She demands to know where the headmaster got these photos, and he tells her that the school monitors social networking sites. These pictures had been posted to a site she no longer uses and had forgotten about. She will be successful if she sues for wrongful termination based on invasion of privacy.

Accepted Answer

There are no restrictions prohibiting employers from monitoring social networking sites that are open and available for public viewing.

Question 8

COBRA requires that employers provide health care coverage, at the former employee's cost, for up to ________ after the employee leaves the company.

Accepted Answer

The answer of COBRA requires that employers provide health care...

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of An employee group with mutual interests and...

Question 10

One important aspect of a successful workers' compensation claim is that the employer's fault, negligence, or wrongdoing does not have to be evidenced or proved for the injured employee to be compensated.

Accepted Answer

Fault is generally not at issue when the employee is injured on the job.

Question 11

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.

Accepted Answer

The answer of If an employee in a unionized company...

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

The employment-at-will doctrine allows an employer to discharge an employee for any reason that does not fall into stated exceptions.

Question 13

Workers at Kent Corp. are on strike. To increase pressure on Kent Corp., they start picketing Flint Corp., one of Kent's suppliers, with signs urging the boycotting of Flint for supporting unfair labor practices. The picketing at Flint would be considered an illegal ______.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Workers at Kent Corp. are on strike....

Question 14

Jan has been fired by her employer for poor job performance. Jan is still entitled to apply for and receive employer-provided health care under provisions of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.

Accepted Answer

Even employees terminated for cause are eligible for benefits under COBRA.

Question 15

The process of having the NLRB certify a union based on 50 percent of the authorization cards indicating the employees want a union without an election is called ______.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The process of having the NLRB certify...

Question 16

The Social Security Act is funded through mandatory employment taxes paid by both the employer and the employee.

Accepted Answer

Mandatory FICA taxes are paid, which fund the Social Security system.

Question 17

The shift from an agricultural society toward industrial production began almost immediately after the end of the U.S. Revolution.

Accepted Answer

The shift from an agricultural society toward industrial production began in the mid-1880s.

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of Employers are not bound by the FLSA...

Question 19

Conditions in American industrial plants have always been safe and humane with regard to the treatment of workers.

Accepted Answer

Initially, treatment of workers was often brutal and dangerous.

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Key employees are not guaranteed reinstatement if the reinstatement would cause substantial and grievous economic injury to the employer. This provision is very narrowly construed by the courts.

Quiz 12: Employment Relationships and Labor Law