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Please answer the below questions. Thank you 1. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act makes it unlawful: A. For an employer to implement a policy
Please answer the below questions. Thank you
1. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act makes it unlawful:
A. For an employer to implement a policy preventing nursing women from expressing breast milk while on break.
B. For an employer to treat pregnant employees worse than employees who are similar in their ability or inability to work.
C. For an employer to place a pregnant employee on light duty when that is the recommendation of the pregnant employee's physician.
D. For an employer to discriminate in favor of pregnant applicants.
E.None of these.
2. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Which of the following is not a justification for an employer to pay men and women unequal pay.
A. A differential based on something other than sex.
B. A merit system.
C. A seniority system.
D. A system based on quantity or quality of production.
E. All of these are justifications for inequitable pay
3. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The Equal Pay Act was an amendment to which federal statute?
A. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
B. The Lilly Ledbetter Act
C. The Fair Labor Standards Act
D. The Americans with Disabilities Act
E. The Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare
4. MULTIPLE CHOICE: To make a claim under the Equal Pay Act, which of the following is a plaintiff not required to prove:
A. That the job was performed under similar working conditions.
B. That the job required equal skill.
C. That the employer intentionally discriminated against the plaintiff on the basis of sex.
D. That the job required equal effort.
E.That the job required equal responsibility.
5. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Which of the following are true of comparators under the Equal Pay Act? (Comparators being defined as someone of the opposite sex in the same position, working under the same conditions, and used by the plaintiff to show an illegal pay disparity.)
A. All of these.
B. The comparator may be a predecessor.
C. The comparator may be a successor.
D. The court may look to those holding the same job or same job title.
E. The two employees must work at the same establishment.
6. An action under the EPA can be brought by which of the following?
A. The EEOC.
B. The Department of Labor.
C. Local law enforcement.
D. An individual plaintiff filing a lawsuit.
E. Both the EEOC and/or an individual plaintiff filing a lawsuit.
7. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The Equal Pay Act imposes the following:
A. Liability upon employees for failing to report when they receive unequal pay when compared against a comparator of the same sex.
B. Liability personally against a supervisor only.
C. Liability against the supervisor and employer.
D. Liability against the employer only.
E. Liability against payroll supervisor only.
8. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Under Section 8 of the NLRA, violations of Section 8 are called:
A. EEOC charges
B. Bargaining in bad faith
C. Secondary boycotts
D. Injunctions
E. Unfair Labor Practices
9. MULITPLE CHOICE: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is responsible for: (Select all that apply)
A. Enforcing the NLRA.
B. Mediating labor disputes in the Railway industry.
C. Certifying unions as bargaining representative for workers following a union election
D. ALL OF THEM
10. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The concept of collective bargaining is premised upon the notion that:
A. The individual worker should have the right to opt into or out of union representation.
B. Two or more workers should be protected in the right to engage in activities related to the terms and conditions of their employment.
C. Employees as a group have more power than negotiating as individuals and as a group the employer is more likely to listen to their concerns.
D. Management generally has the best interests of the worker in mind.
E. Employees have more bargaining leverage in the employee/employer relationship.
11. MULITPLE CHOICE: The Norris LaGuardia Act accomplished which of the following:
A. Outlawed discrimination against pregnant union members.
B. Withheld jurisdiction of federal courts to issue injunctions against collective worker activities, including joining a union.
C. Curtailed the power of unions in response to the strike wave of 1945 and 1946.
D. Made "right to work" the law of the land.
E. Required unions to get the consent of their members before spending money on political campaigns.
12. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The Railway Labor Act of 1926 accomplished which of the following:
A. All of these
B. Outlawed yellow-dog contracts in the railway industry.
C. Outlawed employers from discriminating against unions in the Railway industry.
D. Created a body to mediate disputes in the railway industry.
E. Gave railway workers the right to bargain collectively.
13. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which of the following is not a key worker right:
A. The right to self-organization.
B. The right of unions to use union dues for exclusively political activities.
C. The right to form, join, or assist labor organization.
D. The right to engage in protected concerted activity.
E. The right to bargain collectively.
14. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Which of the following are true of the requirement to bargain in "good faith" under the NLRA:
A. The obligation is mutually held by employer and employee.
B. Failure to bargain in good faith is an unfair labor practice.
C. It requires both sides to produce information relevant to the negotiation.
D. It does not require either side to make concessions during the process.
E. All of these
15. MULITPLE CHOICE: Which of the following best describes the role of the General Counsel's Office in federal labor law?
A. It oversees the regional offices and prosecutes ULP complaints through the Regional Offices.
B. It is the first administrative body to hear and adjudicate complaints under the Act.
C.It hears appeals of decisions made by administrative law judges.
D. Runs the entire NLRB (agency) from Washington DC.
E.None of these.
16. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The party in control of the White House has an important role in setting labor policy in the United States through the NLRB by taking which of the following actions?
A. Appointing members to the Board and appointing the General Counsel.
B. Through the selection of administrative law judges.
C. Through the appointment of regional directors.
D. Through the appeal of cases to the court of appeals in jurisdictions favorable to the administration's policy goals.
E. Through the selection of the Secretary of Labor.
17. TRUE OR FALSE: The right to engage in protected concerted activities is only enforceable in unionized workforces. Non-unionized workforces have no such rights under the Act.
18. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Which of the following is NOT considered protected concerted activity?
A. Participating in a secondary boycott
B. Attending a union informational meeting
C. Complaining to government agencies
D. Striking for a lawful purpose
E. Assisting a coworker with unemployment application
19. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The Board that runs the agency known as the NLRB is made up of individual members appointed by the President of the United States. Assuming the Board has all of its members, how many members are typically from the current President's political party?
A. Three
B. Five
C. Two
D. Four
E. Seven
20. TRUE OR FALSE: Section 8 protects the expressing of views, arguments, and opinions so long as the expression does not include threats of reprisal or force or the promise of a benefit.
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