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LES 305 Exam #3 questions with verifiedsolutions
Employment at will - correct answer ✔✔A doctrine that allows employers to terminate an employee
without advance notice or just cause.
- Employees have expressed/implied contracts
- In express contracts, rights are laid out
- Implied contact may arise if the employee is given a manual that extends some protection to the
employee or it is reasonable to assume that they are entitled to benefits (oral promise made by
employer)
Collective bargaining agreements (CBA's) - correct answer ✔✔Negotiated by labor unions and prescribes
a process that must be used to terminate.
- Give rights to non-management entities also
Which states doesn't recognize common law exceptions? - correct answer ✔✔Georgia, Florida, and
Rhode Island.
Statutory exceptions - correct answer ✔✔- Antidiscrimination laws (race/gender)
- Jury duty
- Labor unions
Wages/hours - correct answer ✔✔- Far labor standards (FLSA) covers employees in interstate commerce
and is enforced by U.S department of labor
- Minimum wage, max 40 hr/week, overtime time, restricts children from working in certain fields during
certain times
- Portal-to-portal act states employees are not entitled to compensation for time spent traveling to work
and time spent on activities before/after principal work (integral/indispensable)
- Employees not entitled to overtime pay based on a eight hour work day
, Ricci vs. Destefano - correct answer ✔✔Firefighter test to get promoted but a majority of those that got
promoted were white so the test was thrown out but Ricci sued claiming that they were discriminating
against white.
- correct answer ✔✔
Morris vs. City of Colorado Springs - correct answer ✔✔Male heart surgeon threw a piece of heart tissue
at a women nurse and stated it created a hostile work environment, but it was not severe/crude enough
as it only happened once.
Exempted employees - correct answer ✔✔Those that make a minimum annual salary of $47,476 ($913
per week); > $134,004 exempted.
Duties test - correct answer ✔✔- Education/skill required by a position, salary, or compensation method
- Amount of physical work/repetitive tasks
- Amount of supervision required by employer
Who is not covered by the FLSA? - correct answer ✔✔- Specialized study (physicians, attorneys,
teachers)
- Management/supervisory employees
- Employees that are subject to certification/regulatory requirements
Child labor - correct answer ✔✔Children in family of agriculture or child actors are not subject to FLSA
restrictions.
- 14-15 limited hours during school day; nonhazardous
- 16-17 no limited hours; no dangerous jobs
Retirement benefits - correct answer ✔✔- Pension is when the employer provides monthly sum of
money after a number of years of service; based on time length and final salary rate
- Savings account (401k) saves a certain % of the base pay and is directly controlled by the employee;
grow without tax liability until withdrawal
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