1. Early court cases concluded that labor organizations were criminal

Chapter 1

• Early court cases concluded that labor organizations were criminal

conspiracies.

*a. True

• False

• Federal legislation such as the Federal Employers Liability Act

(1908) and the Railway Labor Act (1926) allowed for alternative methods for dispute resolution, first in the railroad, and later in the airline industry.

*a. True

• False

• John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, abided by the

“gentlemen’s agreement” during World War II.

• True

*b. False

• The Taft-Hartley Act was a federal statute, which enacted unfair

labor practices for which unions might be charged or punished.

*a. True

• False

• The new laws and common -law legal theories have often supplanted

labor unions as the main source of legal prote ction for American workers.

*a. True

• False

• In the case of Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corporation, NYSE

Rule 347 provided for arbitration in matters that only dealt with the termination of employment.

• True

*b. False

• The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is intended to

protect only disabled workers who are still too young to retire.

• True

*b. False

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• National statutes do not require private employers to provide their

employees with either health insurance or a pension plan.

*a. True

• False

• Following WWII, Big Business, Big Labor, and Big Government did not

team up to help prevent the economic decline.

• True

*b. False

• The Black Death, a plague that first decimated Europe s population

in the mid-14 th century, actually benefited those workers who survived.

*a. True

• False

• The Industrial Revolution in 19

th century England and America witnessed the rise of the employment -at-will doctrine in the common law.

*a. True

• False

• Common law includes statutes and ordinances enacted by legislative

bodies.

• True

*b. False

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called

Obamacare after the president during whose term it was enacted, dramatically revised the Am erican healthcare system.

*a. True

• False

• Occasionally, statutory protections and terms of collective

bargaining agreements conflict.

*a. True

• False

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• A situation wherein either the employer or the worker could terminate their relationship at

any time for any reason is known as:

• common law.

*b. employment-at-will.

• willful misconduct.
• employer’s liability act.

• The act which sets the ground rules for the give and take between labor unions and

corporate managers is the:

• Social Security Act (1935).
• Walsh-Healy Act (1936).
• Fair Labor Standards Act (1938).

*d. National Labor Relations Act (1935).

• The first of several statutes to set the terms and conditions of employment to be provided by

government contractors is known as the:

• Merchant Marine (Jones) Act (1936).
• Fair Labor Standards Act (1938).

*c. Walsh-Healy Act (1936).

• Social Security Act (1935).

18. The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938):

• establishes the rules of give and take between labor unions and corporate managers.
• sets employment conditions for government contractors.

*c. sets minimum wages, mandates overtime pay, and regulates child labor.

• allows the termination of employment relationship at any time and for any reason.

• Which Act provides remedies for injured sailors?

• Marine Labor Standards Act (1938)

*b. Merchant Marine (Jones) Act (1936)

• Navy Labor Relations Act (1935)
• Social Security Act (1935)

• There should be set rules if there is a give and take policy between a labor union and

corporate managers. The Act which provides these rules is the:

• Social Security Act.

*b. National Labor Relations Act.

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• Fair Labor Standards Act.

• David hired John as an assistant in his art studio. After two months David discharged John

from his position due to John’s bad quality of work. Under which doctrine can we say David discharged John?

• Title VII

*b. Employment-at-will

• The Social Security Act
• Willful misconduct

• The integration of national economies into a worldwide economy, due to trade, investment,

and migration and information technology is known as:

*a. globalization.

• perennial revolution.
• amalgamation.
• assimilation.

• If Harry is acting as a neutral adjudicator in a settlement between James and Paul, then the

settlement can be considered a(n):

• whistleblowing practice.

*b. arbitration.

• election of remedies.
• writ of certiorari.

• A litigant’s choice of solutions for a perceived wrong can be employed as a(n):

• choice of cause.
• writ of certiorari.

*c. election of remedies.

• arbitration.

• Under Title VII, an employee alleging illegal discrimination has the right to file a complaint

with the:

*a. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

• American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).
• National Labor Relations Board.
• Election of remedies.

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