Exam 3

Employers who violate any provision of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act may be assessed fines of up to:

$10,000

For a first offense, an employer who knowingly hires or continues to employ an unauthorized alien is subject to a civil fine of at least ____ and up to _____ for each unauthorized alien.

$250; $2,000

If someone sues your company for sex discrimination and wins, the Civil Rights Act of 1991 says that that person may collect:

$50,000 to $300,000 in damages, depending on the size of the employer's workforce.

An employer must examine the documentation an individual presents to establish his/her identity and right to work in the United States within ______ of the day the person is hired.

3 business days

Unfair labor practice charges should be filed with the National Labor Relations Board within ________ from the date or dates of the alleged unfair activity.

6 months

If you advertise for job applicants of a particular race, creed, sex, or national origin, you are in violation of the:

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Which of the following statements about polygraph testing is false?

It is legal for an employer to refuse to hire someone who is unwilling to take a lie detector test.

According to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) regulations, an employer may establish both an employee's identity and his/her authority to work using which of the following?

all of these may be used by an employer to establish both an employee's identity and his/her authority to work: a Temporary Resident Card, or an Employment Authorization Card a Certificate of Naturalization issued by the INS, or an Alien Registration Receipt Card containing a photograph of the bearer a U. S. passport, or a Certificate of Citizenship issued by the INS

Which of the following areas are addressed by state consumer protection laws?

all of these things are addressed by state consumer protection laws: consumer contracts and catering contracts rate posting requirements and no-smoking laws credit reporting and credit cards

Right-to-work laws decree that:

an employee is not required to join a union even if a majority of the employees vote to have a union

3. If an employee receives $20 per month or more in tips, the tips are subject to:

both FICA and FUTA taxes.

In general, to be covered by FUTA, an employer must have:

both paid wages of $1,500 or more in any calendar quarter AND had one or more employees at any time in each of any 20 calendar weeks.

Workers' compensation insurance is paid for by:

employers.

If you ask an employee to work on his/her Sabbath and the employee refuses to do so, you may:

fire the employee for failure to work, but only if you can demonstrate that you cannot accommodate the employee without undue hardship on the conduct of your business

If you employ 50 or more people and hold a federal contract that exceeds $50,000, you must:

have a written affirmative action plan that is acceptable to and monitored by the Department of Labor

If an applicant is refused credit or employment partly because of the information in a credit report, the hotel must advise the applicant of all of the following except:

his/her legal right to reapply

Which of the following statements is false?

if a hotel posts diagrams and instructions on how to aid a choking victim, the hotel staff is obligated by law to render such aid whenever necessary

Consumer protection laws do not deal with which of these topics?

length of consumer contracts

Because of the notification requirement of the Consumer Credit Protection Act, hotels must:

mail semi-annual notices to credit card and credit account customers that specify their rights to dispute billing errors AND send a statement to credit card and credit account customers that outlines the procedures they must follow for disputing billing errors

When can an employer legally ask an employee to take a lie detector test?

none of these answer are correct: when the employer is requiring that every employee submit to one during the employee's annual review never

Employers must keep a record of work-related employee injuries and illnesses:

on an OSHA Log No. 200 form or an equivalent form

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has jurisdiction:

over any U. S. employer of one or more employees engaged in business "affecting commerce"

The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) requires employers to:

report to the IRS the tip income that their tipped employees receive and withhold FICA and estimated taxes on the tip income their tipped employees receive.

If an employee is hired to work at a job covered by Social Security but does not have a Social Security card:

the employee must apply for a Social Security account number within seven days after starting work.

Tips are not considered wages for federal income tax purposes if:

the tips are paid in any medium other than cash and the tips received in any calendar month are less than $20.

Living quarters or meals furnished to an employee are income and subject to withholding taxes, unless:

they are furnished "for the convenience of the employer"

The two principal functions of the National Labor Relations Board are:

to conduct secret ballot elections in which employees decide whether unions will represent them in collective bargaining and to remedy unfair labor practices.

What is an employer's duty to his/her employees as mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Act?

to furnish employees a place of employment that is "free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm"

If a state passed a statute requiring hotels to maintain a guest register, all of the following requirements are likely to be included in the statute except

to whom the register must be shown

What should you do if an attorney asks for permission to examine the hotel's guest register on behalf of a client?

you should ask the attorney to provide you with a subpoena or court order requiring the hotel to produce its records OR you should require the attorney to bring the client to the hotel or produce the client's written and notarized consent

What should you do if a police officer asks for permission to examine the hotel's guest register?

you should request that the police officer show you a subpoena or court order

A hotel should allow examination of the guest register if:

a court order is presented

All of the following documents are acceptable to establish employment authorization except:

a state-issued driver's license

A voice stress analysis is:

a type of polygraph test that is prohibited in some states.

Types of public health regulations that often apply to hotels not served by public water supplies and sewage systems include:

all of the above: water supply regulations sewage treatment regulations dishwashing regulations

Which of the following activities is an unfair labor practice forbidden by the National Labor Relations Act?

all of these activities are an unfair labor practice forbidden by the National Labor Relations Act: questioning employees about their union activities in a way that would tend to restrain or coerce the employees threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join a union threatening to close down a plant if a union is organized in it

In what way do building codes affect hotels?

all of these are ways building codes affect hotels: building codes may regulate the ways in which hotels may operate building codes can contain requirements as to guestroom capacity building codes regulate how a hotel can be built

Public health laws often establish cleanliness standards for:

all of these have cleanliness standards established by public health laws: towels drinking glasses bedding and sheets

Which tax form must an employer furnish to each employee on or before January 31?

Form W-2

You are the manager on duty when a hotel janitor is pricked by a discarded hypodermic needle. You take the janitor to the local hospital, where a physician recommends that the janitor receive the hepatitis B vaccines. The janitor refuses the vaccine. What should you do?

Require the janitor to sign an OSHA waiver