LGS 200- Abigail Hammond- Exam 4
What are the child labor restrictions by age group? - ✔️✔️Under 14: can deliver
newspapers, work for their parents, be employed in entertainment and agriculture
Children 14 & 15: arent allowed to work in hazardous conditions, and are restricted on
how many hours per day and per week they can work
Children 16 & 18: Only cannot be employed in hazardous jobs
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) - ✔️✔️Requires employer with
at least 100 full time employees to provide 60 days notice before implementing a mass
layoff or closing a plant that employs more than 50 full time workers
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) - ✔️✔️Allows employees to take time off work
for family or medical reasons or in certain situations that arise from military service
What is a big thing the FLSA does today? - ✔️✔️Provides the most comprehensive
federal regulation of wages and hours
What is the main thing the FLSA prohibits? - ✔️✔️Oppressive child labor
What reasons can employee take up to 12 weeks leave in a 12 month period? - ✔️✔️1.
To care for a newborn baby (within 1 year)
2. To care for an adopted or foster child (within 1 year)
3. To care for the employee's spouse, child, or parent with a serious health condition
4. If the employee's suffers from a serious heath condition
5. For any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee's spouse, child,
or parent is a covered military member on active duty
What is an example of when a person can take time off if that employee's spouse, child,
or parent is on active duty? - ✔️✔️An employee can take leave to arrange for childcare
or to deal with financial or legal matters when a spouse is being deployed overseas
Occupational Safety and Health Act - ✔️✔️Created to protect worker and health. Its
main aim was to ensure that employers provide their workers with an environment free
from dangers to their safety and health, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive
noise levels, mechanical dangers, heat or cold stress, or unsanitary conditions.
What is an example of an OSHA regulation? - ✔️✔️Requiring the use of safety guards
on certain mechanical equipment
What does the OHSA require of employees? - ✔️✔️- Post certain notices in the
workplace
,- Maintain specific records
- Submit reports
- Whenever a work-related fatality or serious injury requiring hospitalization, employers
must report directly to OSHA
OSHA Inspections - ✔️✔️- OHSA compliance officers may enter and inspect the
facilities of any establishment covered by the OSHA
- Employees may also file complaints of violations
Under the OSHA act, an employer cannot fire an employee who does what? - ✔️✔️-
Files a complaint
- In good faith, refuses to work in a high-risk are if bodily harm or death might result
Workers' Compensation Law - ✔️✔️A state statute establishing an administrative
procedure for compensating workers for injuries that arise out of, or in the course of,
their employment, regardless of fault
What are the only requirements to recover benefits under state workers' compensation
laws? - ✔️✔️- The existence of an employment relationship
- An accidental injury that occurred on the job or in the course of employment,
regardless of fault
What must an injured employee do? - ✔️✔️- Notify his/her employer promptly
- File a workers' compensation claim within a certain period (60 days to 2 years) from
the time the injury is first noticed, rather than from the time of the accident
True or False: If an employee accepts workers' compensation benefits, he or she may
still sue for injuries caused by the employer's negligence - ✔️✔️False, an employee
cannot sure after accepting workers' compensation benefits
What is an exception to the rule that you cannot sue after accepting workers'
compensation benefits? - ✔️✔️A worker may sure an employer who intentionally
injures the worker
Who is medicare for? - ✔️✔️- People 65 or older
- Some under the age of 65 who are disabled
What are the two parts of medicare? - ✔️✔️- Hospital costs
- Non hospital medical costs
What is an example of non-hospital medical costs? - ✔️✔️Visit to a physicians' office
What is the federal statute that regulates employee retirement plans? - ✔️✔️Employee
Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) - ✔️✔️Provides timely and
uninterrupted payment of voluntary private pension benefits
Vesting - ✔️✔️The creation of an absolute or unconditional right or power
What must a worker do to be eligible for unemployment compensation? - ✔️✔️Must be
willing and able to work
What does the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act enable? -
✔️✔️Employees to continue, for a limited time, their health care coverage after they
are no longer eligible for group health insurance plans
What is an example of how state and federal statues limit an employers conduct? -
✔️✔️The Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibits employers from intercepting
an employee's personal electronic communications unless they are made on devices
and systems furnished by the employer
Employment at will - ✔️✔️A common law doctrine under which either party many
terminate an employment relationship at any time for any reason, unless a contract
specifies otherwise
Implied Employment Contract - ✔️✔️Any organizational guarantee or promise about
job security. Includes: handbooks, manuals, or oral promises
What is the most common exception to the employment-at-will doctrine? - ✔️✔️The
employer's reason for firing the employee violates a fundamental public policy of the
jurisdiction
Whistleblowing - ✔️✔️An employee's disclosure to government authorities, upper-level
managers, or the media that the employer is engaged in unsafe or illegal activites
Whistle Blower Protection Act - ✔️✔️Created for whistleblowers to seek protection from
retaliatory discharge under federal and state statutes
Wrongful Discharge - ✔️✔️An employer's termination of an employee's employment in
violation of the law or an employment contract
What is an example of wrongful discharge? - ✔️✔️If while firing a female employee, an
employer publicly discloses private facts about her sex life, that employee can sue for
wrongful discharge on an invasion of privacy
Davis-Bacon Act - ✔️✔️Requires contractors and subcontractors working on federal
government construction projects to pay "prevailing wages" to their employees
What are the child labor restrictions by age group? - ✔️✔️Under 14: can deliver
newspapers, work for their parents, be employed in entertainment and agriculture
Children 14 & 15: arent allowed to work in hazardous conditions, and are restricted on
how many hours per day and per week they can work
Children 16 & 18: Only cannot be employed in hazardous jobs
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) - ✔️✔️Requires employer with
at least 100 full time employees to provide 60 days notice before implementing a mass
layoff or closing a plant that employs more than 50 full time workers
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) - ✔️✔️Allows employees to take time off work
for family or medical reasons or in certain situations that arise from military service
What is a big thing the FLSA does today? - ✔️✔️Provides the most comprehensive
federal regulation of wages and hours
What is the main thing the FLSA prohibits? - ✔️✔️Oppressive child labor
What reasons can employee take up to 12 weeks leave in a 12 month period? - ✔️✔️1.
To care for a newborn baby (within 1 year)
2. To care for an adopted or foster child (within 1 year)
3. To care for the employee's spouse, child, or parent with a serious health condition
4. If the employee's suffers from a serious heath condition
5. For any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee's spouse, child,
or parent is a covered military member on active duty
What is an example of when a person can take time off if that employee's spouse, child,
or parent is on active duty? - ✔️✔️An employee can take leave to arrange for childcare
or to deal with financial or legal matters when a spouse is being deployed overseas
Occupational Safety and Health Act - ✔️✔️Created to protect worker and health. Its
main aim was to ensure that employers provide their workers with an environment free
from dangers to their safety and health, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive
noise levels, mechanical dangers, heat or cold stress, or unsanitary conditions.
What is an example of an OSHA regulation? - ✔️✔️Requiring the use of safety guards
on certain mechanical equipment
What does the OHSA require of employees? - ✔️✔️- Post certain notices in the
workplace
,- Maintain specific records
- Submit reports
- Whenever a work-related fatality or serious injury requiring hospitalization, employers
must report directly to OSHA
OSHA Inspections - ✔️✔️- OHSA compliance officers may enter and inspect the
facilities of any establishment covered by the OSHA
- Employees may also file complaints of violations
Under the OSHA act, an employer cannot fire an employee who does what? - ✔️✔️-
Files a complaint
- In good faith, refuses to work in a high-risk are if bodily harm or death might result
Workers' Compensation Law - ✔️✔️A state statute establishing an administrative
procedure for compensating workers for injuries that arise out of, or in the course of,
their employment, regardless of fault
What are the only requirements to recover benefits under state workers' compensation
laws? - ✔️✔️- The existence of an employment relationship
- An accidental injury that occurred on the job or in the course of employment,
regardless of fault
What must an injured employee do? - ✔️✔️- Notify his/her employer promptly
- File a workers' compensation claim within a certain period (60 days to 2 years) from
the time the injury is first noticed, rather than from the time of the accident
True or False: If an employee accepts workers' compensation benefits, he or she may
still sue for injuries caused by the employer's negligence - ✔️✔️False, an employee
cannot sure after accepting workers' compensation benefits
What is an exception to the rule that you cannot sue after accepting workers'
compensation benefits? - ✔️✔️A worker may sure an employer who intentionally
injures the worker
Who is medicare for? - ✔️✔️- People 65 or older
- Some under the age of 65 who are disabled
What are the two parts of medicare? - ✔️✔️- Hospital costs
- Non hospital medical costs
What is an example of non-hospital medical costs? - ✔️✔️Visit to a physicians' office
What is the federal statute that regulates employee retirement plans? - ✔️✔️Employee
Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) - ✔️✔️Provides timely and
uninterrupted payment of voluntary private pension benefits
Vesting - ✔️✔️The creation of an absolute or unconditional right or power
What must a worker do to be eligible for unemployment compensation? - ✔️✔️Must be
willing and able to work
What does the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act enable? -
✔️✔️Employees to continue, for a limited time, their health care coverage after they
are no longer eligible for group health insurance plans
What is an example of how state and federal statues limit an employers conduct? -
✔️✔️The Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibits employers from intercepting
an employee's personal electronic communications unless they are made on devices
and systems furnished by the employer
Employment at will - ✔️✔️A common law doctrine under which either party many
terminate an employment relationship at any time for any reason, unless a contract
specifies otherwise
Implied Employment Contract - ✔️✔️Any organizational guarantee or promise about
job security. Includes: handbooks, manuals, or oral promises
What is the most common exception to the employment-at-will doctrine? - ✔️✔️The
employer's reason for firing the employee violates a fundamental public policy of the
jurisdiction
Whistleblowing - ✔️✔️An employee's disclosure to government authorities, upper-level
managers, or the media that the employer is engaged in unsafe or illegal activites
Whistle Blower Protection Act - ✔️✔️Created for whistleblowers to seek protection from
retaliatory discharge under federal and state statutes
Wrongful Discharge - ✔️✔️An employer's termination of an employee's employment in
violation of the law or an employment contract
What is an example of wrongful discharge? - ✔️✔️If while firing a female employee, an
employer publicly discloses private facts about her sex life, that employee can sue for
wrongful discharge on an invasion of privacy
Davis-Bacon Act - ✔️✔️Requires contractors and subcontractors working on federal
government construction projects to pay "prevailing wages" to their employees
