HR management chapter 2

Question 1

What types of companies fall into federal jurisdiction?

Answer 1

• Dealings with other countries: Air routes, air transport, shipping, and broadcasting.
• Interprovincial links: road and rail transportation.
• National interest: nuclear energy, national defense, currency and coinage, banking.

Question 2

What is the proportion of companies under federal or provincial laws?

Answer 2

90% are subject to provincial law
10% are subject to federal law

Question 3

What are the 2 types of prohibited discrimination?

Answer 3

• Direct
• Indirect and systemic

Question 4

What is direct discrimination?

Answer 4

It deliberately refuses to hire, train or promote on any prohibited grounds.

Question 5

What are indirect and systemic discrimination?

Answer 5

Embedded policies and practices that appear neutral on the surface have an adverse impact on specific groups for reasons not job-related.

Question 6

What is the CNESST in charge of?

Answer 6

• Labour standards
• Pay equity
• Health and Safety

Question 7

What are the laws regarding contracts?

Answer 7

• Can be written or verbal.
• Indeterminate or fixed term duration.
• Droit de rupture.

Question 8

What does the manager obligation law say?

Answer 8

• Protect health and safety.
• Allow performance of the work and pay for it.
• Preserve the dignity of the employee.

Question 9

What does the employee’s obligations law say?

Answer 9

• Perform work under the supervision and control of the employer.
• Carry out work with prudence and diligence.
• Demonstrate discretion and act faithfully.

Question 10

What are the reasons for terminating an employee/employer relationship?

Answer 10

• Resignation (employee is going away by himself).
• Dismissal (employee is going away by directive of the employer).
• Permanent layoff (employee is leaving because of company situation)
• Temporary layoff (employee is leaving temporally because of a company situation).
• Mutual agreement (agreement between the employee and the manager).

Question 11

Who is not concerned by the labor standards act?

Answer 11

• Senior management
• Self-employed workers
• Interns

Question 12

What does an employee handbook say?

Answer 12

• It defines specific policies and key information
• It has a mission, a vision, and a lot of useful information about the what company does and what they offer to its employees.
• It must be specific, it has to be signed by the employees, and it must be applied uniformly and consistently.

Question 13

What does the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms say?

Answer 13

States fundamental rights and freedoms and sets anti-discrimination standards in the labor field.

Question 14

What does the Québec civil code say?

Answer 14

Governs relationships of a private nature.

Question 15

What does the charter of the French Language say?

Answer 15

Protects the French language in the workplace.

Question 16

what does the Labour Code say?

Answer 16

Deals with collective working relationships.

Question 17

What do the Act Respecting Labour standards say?

Answer 17

Sets minimum labor standards and grants employees recourse in the case of dismissals.

Question 18

What does the Act Resecting Equal Access to Employment in Public bodies say?

Answer 18

Establishes a framework for equal access to address the situation of certain groups discriminated against in employment (women, native peoples, visible minorities, and people whose mother tongue is neither French nor English).

Question 19

What does the Pay Equity Act say?

Answer 19

Corrects the wage gap created by systemic discrimination based on gender against people who occupy predominantly female job classes.

Question 20

What does the National Holiday Act say?

Answer 20

States that June 24 is a statutory general holiday.

Question 21

What does the Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector say?

Answer 21

Ensures the protection of personal information and sets rules concerning its collection retention, use, and disclosure in the work environment.

Question 22

What does the Act Respecting Occupational Health and Safety say?

Answer 22

Focuses on eliminating hazards to the health, safety, and physical integrity of personnel; determines the rights and obligations of workers. employers and their respective associations; establish the mechanisms and recourse available to make the provision of the law a reality.

Question 23

What does the Act Respecting Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases say?

Answer 23

Establishes the right to compensation, rehabilitation, medical assistance, and return to work for victims of work-related accidents and occupational diseases.

Question 24

What does the Voluntary Retirement Savings say?

Answer 24

Proposes a group of retirement saving plans gradually accessible in Québec companies to employees who choose to join it, the purpose being to encourage retirement savings for all Québec workers.

Question 25

What is constructive dismissal?

Answer 25

It is an action by which the employer unilaterally makes substantial changes to the essential terms of an employee’s contract or uses harassment to goad an employee into resigning