Chapter 20

Question 1

NLRA

Answer 1

passed in July 1935 to govern the labor-management relations of business firms engaged in interstate commerce.

Question 2

Violations of the NLRA

Answer 2

unfair labor practices: discrimination; dominating the employees’ union or interferes with and supports one of two competing unions; coercion of employees by the union, such activities as mass picketing, assaulting nonstrikers, and following groups of nonstrikers away from the immediate area of the facility.

Question 3

OSHA

Answer 3

establish administrative machinery for the development and enforcement of standards for occupational health and safety.

Question 4

Norris-LaGuardia Act

Answer 4

enacted by congress to limit the power of the federal courts to issue injunctions in cases that involve or have grown out of labor disputes.

Question 5

EPA

Answer 5

Equal Pay Act of 1963 were violated when a female nurse’s aide was paid less than male orderlies were paid for similar work. It was enacted to remedy what was perceived to be a serious and endemic problem of employment discrimination in private industry.

Question 6

Various ways discrimination can occur in the workplace.

Answer 6

Age, Disability, National origin, pay, pregnancy, race, religious, sex, and sexual harassment.

Question 7

Sexual harassement

Answer 7

the EEOC defines sexual harassment in employment as unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favors; verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment.