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,Chapter 01 First the Forest Then the Trees An Overview ofEmployment and Labor Law
TRUEFALSE
1. Early court cases concluded that labor organizations were criminal conspiracies.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
2. 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
(B) False
Answer : (A)
3. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, abided by the "gentlemen's agreement"
during World War II.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
4. The Taft-Hartley Act was a federal statute, which enacted unfair labor practices for which unions
might be charged or punished.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
5. The new laws and common-law legal theories have often supplanted labor unions as the main
source of legal protection for American workers.
(A) True
(B) False
,Answer : (A)
6. 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.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
7. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is intended to protect only disabled
workers who are still too young to retire.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
8. National statutes do not require private employers to provide their employees with either health
insurance or a pension plan.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
9. Following WWII, Big Business, Big Labor, and Big Government did not team up to help prevent
the economic decline.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
10. The Black Death, a plague that first decimated Europe s population in the mid-14th century,
actually benefited those workers who survived.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
11. The Industrial Revolution in 19th century England and America witnessed the rise of the
, employment-at-will doctrine in the common law.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
12. Common law includes statutes and ordinances enacted by legislative bodies.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
13. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare after the president
during whose term it was enacted, dramatically revised the American healthcare system.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
14. Occasionally, statutory protections and terms of collective bargaining agreements conflict.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
MULTICHOICE
15. A situation wherein either the employer or the worker could terminate their relationship at any
time for any reason is known as:
(A) common law.
(B) employment-at-will.
(C) willful misconduct.
(D) employer's liability act.
Answer : (B)
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