Employment Relationships

Question 1

Originally governing law was:

Answer 1

 Contract
 Tort
 Agency

Question 2

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

State Common Law Exceptions to Employment at Will

Answer 3

 Contract Theory
 Tort Theory
 Public Policy

Question 4

Public Policy

Answer 4

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)

Question 5

Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988

Answer 5

prevents employers from using polygraph (lie detector) tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions.

Question 6

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act 2008

Answer 6

• 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.

Question 7

Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986

ECPA

Answer 7

which was primarily designed to prevent unauthorized government access to private electronic communications

Question 8

Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation

Act of 1985

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Family and Medical Leave Act

Answer 9

requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons.

Question 10

OSHA

Answer 10

OSHA helps business protect their workers and reduce the number of workplace deaths, injuries and illnesses

Question 11

State Workers Compensation Acts

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of

2010

Answer 12

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

Question 13

HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECTION

Answer 13

 OSHA
 State Workers Compensation Acts
 Social Security Act
 Medicare
 Employee Retirement Income Security Act
 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act