Employment Relationships Flashcards
Originally governing law was:
Contract
Tort
Agency
FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.
State Common Law Exceptions to Employment at Will
Contract Theory
Tort Theory
Public Policy
Public Policy
An employee is protected from losing his/her job if s/he disobeys an employer by not doing an illegal or immoral act (GA rejects policy)
Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988
prevents employers from using polygraph (lie detector) tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions.
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act 2008
- protects Americans from being treated unfairly because of differences in their DNA that may affect their health.
- The new law prevents discrimination from health insurers and employers.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
ECPA
which was primarily designed to prevent unauthorized government access to private electronic communications
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1985
generally requires that group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year offer employees and their families the opportunity for a temporary extension of health coverage (called continuation coverage) in certain instances where coverage under the plan would otherwise end.
Family and Medical Leave Act
requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons.
OSHA
OSHA helps business protect their workers and reduce the number of workplace deaths, injuries and illnesses
State Workers Compensation Acts
These entities serve the specific employee groups who are covered under the relevant statutes and regulations by mitigating the financial burden resulting from workplace injury.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of
2010
ensure that all Americans have access to quality,
affordable health care and will create the transformation within the health care system necessary to
contain costs
HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECTION
OSHA
State Workers Compensation Acts
Social Security Act
Medicare
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act