Employment Law Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Employment Law examines the legal framework governing the relationship between employers and employees, covering topics such as employment contracts, workplace rights and obligations, anti-discrimination laws, occupational health and safety, wage and hour regulations, and the processes for resolving workplace disputes. Students will explore statutory and common law principles, analyze significant case law, and discuss contemporary issues such as wrongful termination, collective bargaining, and the impact of technology on the modern workplace. The course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of legal protections for both employees and employers, preparing students to navigate complex employment-related legal challenges.
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Labor Relations Striking a Balance 4th Edition by John
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W. Budd
Chapter 1: Contemporary Labor Relations: Objectives, Practices, and Challenges
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Q1) Which of the following best summarizes the trends in U.S.union density since the 1980s?
A)Decreases in both the private and public sectors.
B)Increases in both the private and public sectors.
C)Stable in the private sector and decreases in the public sector.
D)Increases in the public sector and decreases in the private sector.
Answer: D
Q2) With collective bargaining,the employer's __________________ authority is replaced with bilateral negotiations.
Answer: Unilateral
Q3) Business pressures for competitiveness and quality have affected the collective bargaining process in all of the following ways except:
A)Increased the need for flexibility in work rules.
B)Increased the need for more specific,detailed contracts.
C)Increased need for cooperation and employee involvement in work decisions.
D)Increase need to communicate about the terms of a contract more than once every three years when the contract expires.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Labor Unions: Good or Bad
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Q1) Workplace governance under the industrial relations model should include:
A)Government intervention that establishes laws regarding good workplace practices
B)Government intervention in the form of laws and rules that protect the rights of individuals to enter contracts
C)Government intervention in the form of laws and rules that protect worker rights to bargain collectively and establish labor standards
D)No government involvement
Answer: C
Q2) The shock effect refers to the tendency for
A)nonunion members to join unions because of the extreme wage differential
B)nonunion firms to become unionized
C)managers in unionized firms to become better managers in response to unionization
D)managers in nonunion firms to become better managers so they can avoid unionization
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Historical Development
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Q1) Syndicalism refers to the strategy employed by the IWW to win gains in terms and conditions of employment through direct worker actions such as strikes,sabotage,and passive resistance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Homestead Strike of the Iron and Steel workers in Homestead,PA is representative of the struggle in the late 1800's between worker control over their own working conditions and management's right to unilaterally establish working conditions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Explain how mass production manufacturing practices influenced the rise in labor unions.
Answer: Mass manufacturing relied on simplification and routinization of previously skilled work.The work became impersonal and boring while the pressure to manufacturing more and more increased.Thus,workers sought to exercise some control over their work environment by unionizing.
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Chapter 4: Labor Law
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Q1) According to the Wagner Act (NLRA),an employer must recognize and treat a union as the representative of all employees (even those that did not vote for the union)if the union has majority support of the employees.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding the NLRB is not true?
A)The adjudicating office is responsible for conducting workplace inspections for NLRA violations.
B)The general counsel's office conducts representation elections.
C)The general counsel's office investigates and prosecutes unfair labor practices.
D)The adjudicating office hears and decides cases where disputes arise.
Q3) The NLRB's decision in Wright Line lays out a 3 part test to determine whether an employee was disciplined or discharged for legitimate reasons,rather than as retaliation or coercion for union activities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the role of the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 and discuss the rationale for this legislation.
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Chapter 5: Labor and Management: Strategies, Structures, and Constraints
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Q1) When management works toward remaining nonunion or becoming nonunion,it is known as union ___________________________.
Q2) U.S.labor law mandates basic democratic procedures within unions,including free speech and election provisions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A partnership between management and the union in addressing workplace problems and issues is most likely to arise in a paternalistic organization with a union acceptance strategy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Jenna is a new recruiter for a large staffing agency.Her trainer has told her to let candidates know that they will "get back to them" within two weeks of a interview date.Jenna notices,however,that the staffing agency rarely lives up to this promise and often never gets back to candidates.Jenna finds this unethical - she knows that if she were the candidate,she would not want to be lied to.Jenna's ethical analysis illustrates the ethics of duty.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Union Organizing
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Q1) Most certification elections have more than just one union on the ballot,so the choice is whether to unionize and,if so,which specific union will represent the bargaining unit.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In situations where gross misconduct calls the results of a representation election into question,a Gissel bargaining order may be issued to:
A)Prohibit a union from acting as the employees' exclusive representative even if they have "won" the representation election.
B)Require an employer to negotiate with a union even though the election results do not support representation.
C)Requires that a new representation election be held.
D)Either a or b.
Q3) If more than 50% of employees have signed authorizations cards,the employer can choose to recognize the union and bargain with it.In this case,no election is needed.This is referred to as _______________________________.
Q4) In union organizing,a majority sign-up procedure is also known as _______________________________.
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Chapter 7: Bargaining
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Q1) The auto industry is made up of many auto parts suppliers that are unionized by the United Auto Workers.Explain why the UAW and the auto parts suppliers might prefer a centralized over a decentralized bargaining structure and vice versa.
Q2) The process of estimating the costs of proposals in negotiations is called contract costing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _______________________________ seeks to unify or integrate the common interests of the parties to a negotiation so that all parties will be better off as a result of the agreement.
Q4) ____________________ pertains to concerns of managing the labor-management relationship,such as creating trust.
A)Distributive bargaining
B)Attitudinal structuring
C)Direct dealing
D)Unilateral change
Q5) The _______________________________ is the diverse set of external influences on labor and management as they sit at a bargaining table negotiating a contract.
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Chapter 8: Impasse, Strikes, and Dispute Resolution
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Q1) It is illegal for picketers to block an entrance to an employer's place of business.
A)True
B)False
Q2) (p292)The ____________________ effect occurs when negotiators develop a dependence on third party dispute resolution methods.
A)Chilling
B)Work-to-rule
C)Narcotic
D)Hypnotic
Q3) The Supreme Court has ruled that at the conclusion of a strike,employers must offer available jobs to the former strikers before hiring any brand new employees.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is likely to decrease an employer's bargaining power?
A)A strong economy.
B)A large number of products in inventory.
C)Slowed or idle plants in other parts of the country.
D)A loose labor market.
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Chapter 9: Contract Clauses and Their Administration
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Q1) Contract provisions that prevent the loss of union jobs by limiting an employer's right to send work to other employers are called subcontracting or outsourcing restrictions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Arbitration hearings are essentially court hearings where the traditional rules of evidence are strictly followed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A union recognition clause:
A)Can help unions maintain their strength.
B)States that the employer recognizes the union as the exclusive bargaining agent for the bargaining unit.
C)States whether the bargaining unit will be a union shop or an agency shop.
D)A and b only.
E)All of the above.
Q4) When interpreting contract language,an arbitrator will look to _______________________________ to determine how prior incidents of the same or similar issues were handled by the employer and union.
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Chapter 10: Flexibility, Empowerment, and Partnership
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Q1) Quality of working life programs were implemented largely to deal with problems associated with:
A)Job control unionism
B)Worker dissatisfaction
C)Management favoritism and bias
D)Poor communication between management and labor
Q2) Implementing a new strategy for labor-management relations is difficult.What challenges does an organization that wants to make a change face and what are some of the strategies it might use to overcome resistance?
Q3) What criteria does a nonunion employee committee or representation plan need to meet to be considered legal under the NLRA?
Q4) The ability to make compensation responsive to changes in competitive pressures and organizational performance is known as ______________________________.
Q5) Creating a more cooperative environment for management and labor through attitudinal structuring,integrative bargaining,etc. ,is known as a __________________________________strategy.
Q6) What is meant by labor-management partnerships and what challenges do they pose for unions?
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Chapter 11: Globalization
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Q1) In a multinational corporation,if formal labor relations processes and structures are centralized,local managers should build networks across the entire organization to facilitate coordination and training.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to free market economic models,free trade across countries encourages all of the following except:
A)More efficient utilization of scarce resources
B)Increased size of product markets
C)Generalist countries (i.e. ,countries that can produce some of everything)
D)Reduced monopoly power of domestic companies
Q3) The World Bank requires companies to abide by the ILO's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work as a condition of borrowing money.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How can four schools of thought on the labor problem from Chapter 2 be useful to considering options to regulating globalization to limit short term costs and problems associated with exploitation?
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Chapter 12: Comparative Labor Relations
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Q1) The labor relations system in Great Britain illustrates the very important concept of
A)Communism
B)Voluntarism
C)Socialism
D)Ideological unionism
Q2) Canadian labor unions are moving toward a _______________________________ philosophy in which labor has a more militant,activist role in society.
Q3) In France,employees have several forms of workplace-level employee representation such as employee delegates and work committees.
A)True
B)False
Q4) France's system of political or _______________________________ unionism relies on political mobilization and political strikes to further each union's broad social agenda rather than on specific workplace collective bargaining.
Q5) Canadian provinces provide for ___________________________________ and instant elections to establish a union.
Q6) Explain how job security protections differ across countries.
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Chapter 13: What Should Labor Relations Do?
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Q1) Suppose you are among those who believe that the NLRA needs to be strengthened and reinforced.What kinds of changes might you advocate? Consider both legal decisions and legislative changes.
Q2) Solidarity unionism is very consistent with a servicing model of union representation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The union model typically used in professional sports and entertainment is employee empowerment unionism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Because of the problems with the NLRA,some believe that it should be_______________________________ rather than reformed or transformed.
Q5) In the shareholder model of corporate governance,shareholder satisfaction should be the primary concern of a company.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Social voice is most strongly advocated by_______________________________ unionism.
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