(Employee Rights and Responsibilities)
powers, privileges, or interests derived from law, nature, or tradition - answers✔✔Rights
are the result of specific laws or statutes passed by federal, state, or local governments -
answers✔✔Statutory rights
which are obligations to perform certain tasks and duties - answers✔✔Responsibilities
visit employees at home and help them manage their household finances and family health -
answers✔✔Sociological Department
based on a specific contract with an employer - answers✔✔Contractual right
a formal agreement that outlines the details of employment
when employees are hired from outside - answers✔✔Employment contract
which prohibit individuals who leave an organization from working with an employer in the
same line of business for a specified period of time
separate or a clause in employment contract - answers✔✔Noncompete Agreement
bar former employees from soliciting business from former customers and clients for a specified
period of time - answers✔✔Nonpiracy agreement
, can be incorporated into the employment agreement - answers✔✔nonsolicitation of current
employees
help protect trade secrets - answers✔✔intellectual property and trade secrets
an unwritten agreement created by the actions of the parties involved
when hires Indefinite period or promises job security - answers✔✔Implied contract
employers have the right to hire, fire, demote, or promote whomever they choose, unless there
is a law or a contract to the contrary, and employees can quit at any time with or without notice
- answers✔✔Employment at will (EAW)
1. Public policies expectation
2. Implied contract exception
3. Good-faith and fair-dealing exception - answers✔✔EAW exceptions
involves the termination of an individual's employment for reasons that are illegal or improper -
answers✔✔Wrongful discharge
reasonable justification for taking employment-related action
Not protected in at will employment AWE - answers✔✔Just cause
which is the process of deliberately making conditions intolerable to get an employee to quit -
answers✔✔Constructive discharge