Week 3 Apply Assignment
Felipe is an illegal immigrant seeking work in the U.S. He is hired by a small factory doing manual labor. When it is discovered that Felipe is an illegal immigrant:
Felipe can be deported, and the employer can be punished.
What type of crime is money laundering?
Felony
Orlando's business wants to enact an affirmative action plan. Which of the following would not be a part of the process?
Firing majority workers who perform the least well.
For the scenario, determine whether or not the person should be covered by worker's compensation protections. Ginger works at a shop as a mechanic. One day at work, a fellow employee is pinned under a car when a jack fails. Ginger rushes over to help, and while trying to lift the car suffers a stroke.
Ginger will be covered
Gordon has already worked 40 hours this week and is asked to come in to work again. Gordon is a manager who constantly has to make decisions about the business's operation. Is Gordon eligible for overtime pay?
Gordon cannot be paid overtime
Kenzie is a broker agent hired to make a deal for the purchase of an office building. Kenzie sells the building. What is the result related to the status of the agency?
Agency is terminated by fulfillment
Buster has had a serious medical condition for many months. He has used up all of his sick leave and vacation days, as well as 10 weeks of intermittent FMLA leave. He asks for an additional two weeks off from work. Which of the following is true?
Buster is entitled to the leave he is asking for.
Darlene and her friends get together for lunch after work. While at lunch, the friends discuss what they can do to solve the problem of excessive overtime at work. Which of the following is true?
Darlene and her friends are engaging in concerted activity since they are discussing how to improve working conditions.
Jesse's mother dies. Due to the trauma, Jesse breaks into an ice cream shop, steals all the ice cream, and is later caught. Which defense most likely applies to this situation? (Whether or not the defense will work is not relevant.)
Diminished Capacity
Which statement matches the following scenario? Joy is a supervisor over Elias. She repeatedly solicits sexual behavior from Elias and does other inappropriate actions that a reasonable person would find offensive. Elias has not solicited the behavior and finds it unwelcome. Joy never imposes a tangible job action against Elias.
Guilty of hostile work environment sexual harassment
Elizabeth is out with her friends at a bar one night. The bartender notices someone slip a pill into Elizabeth's drink. If Elizabeth commits a crime later that night, the bartender can best testify on her behalf. Which defense most likely applies to this situation? (Whether or not the defense will work is not relevant.)
Involuntary Intoxication
Jennifer took a video recording of Jack and Alice fighting in an alley. Jack and Alice disclose multiple private facts about each other through the course of the argument. Jennifer posts the fight on the internet. Which of the following is true?
Jack and Alice can make a tort claim against Jennifer for public revelation of private facts.
Tiana runs an employment agency distributing work assignments to several dozen workers who then work for whatever employer they are assigned to. Which true statement best suits this situation? ("Discriminate" in this context means to make an employment decision about employees based on the characteristics described in the text.)
Tiana may not discriminate, and no qualifier or condition will enable her to discriminate
For the scenario, determine whether or not the person should be covered by worker's compensation protections. Vicente works at a factory. While he is working, a coworker negligently trying to spin donuts in a forklift runs into him, causing an injury to both workers.
Vicente will be covered
Mike is an agent making purchasing orders for Tami. Tami passes away before the agency contract is voluntarily ended. Mike has already done most of the work Tami assigned. What is the result related to the status of the agency?
Agency is terminated by law
Amanda is babysitting when her charge Tomas leaps off a couch onto a glass table and breaks it, leaving him with many cuts. To show that Amanda was negligent, Tomas's parents must show that:
All of the above
Elaine is a secretary for a business. One day a customer comes in to file a new contract while Elaine is seated at her boss's desk. The customer assumes Elaine is a person of authority, and Elaine is knowledgeable enough to help the customer file the contract. Which response aligns best with this situation?
MUST be enforced because Elaine is an agent
Cathy works in a welding shop. While working one day, a pipe falls from scaffolding above and lands on her head, injuring her. Cathy complains to OSHA, but the company argues that because it has a "watch out for falling pipe" sign in the workplace that it gave fair warning. It also says that if Cathy wasn't wearing a hardhat, she is responsible for her own injury. Which of the following is true?
More than one answer is correct.
Fill in the blank that completes the statement. Al's Fine Winery has had workers attempting to band together to form a union. Al's wants to avoid letting the workers gain too much power by eliminating new workers' option to join a union at all. Al's will likely utilize ____________.
Yellow dog contract(s)
Read the scenario and determine what result the law requires. The union at Cherry's firm is on strike because it wants higher wages. During the strike, management hires a new person to take Cherry's place. When the strike finally ends, Cherry wants her job back. Which of the following is true?
Cherry may not receive her job back
Cynthia is a union member at her company. She files a complaint against the union because of what she feels is an unfair rule. Which of the following is true?
Cynthia may sue the union if her complaint to the union through its grievance procedures doesn't resolve her problem.
Eduardo is working his way up the ladder in the world of amateur boxing. He makes a stinging (and false) remark about his next opponent on TV by saying that his opponent is a coward who practices boxing by beating up his wife. Which of the following is true?
Eduardo is being defamatory because his remarks may harm his opponent's reputation.
Ella makes minimum wage. Her job title is "System Assembly Supervisor." She primarily spends her workday putting together electronic components. She is asked to work more than 40 hours this week to meet a deadline. Is Ella eligible for overtime pay?
Ella must be paid overtime
Which statement corresponds to this specific situation? Virgil and Suzanna both work at a business with 50 employees. Virgil is 55 and Suzanna is 60. They have the same qualifications and experience. When the company need to downsize, Virgil is fired but Suzanna is retained.
Employer may legally discriminate against Virgil because the ADEA doesn't protect him in this situation.
Which statement corresponds to this specific situation? Rowan owns a computer programming business with 15 employees. He is hiring a new employee, and he turns down a 45-year-old man because he is "too old to keep up with the rest of the group."
Employer may legally discriminate based on number of employees
Megan's boss is out of town. While she is gone, the company receives a critical tax bill from the state that must be paid immediately. Megan does not have authority to pay bills, but arranges for the company to pay the bill anyway. Which response best fits the situation - is the payment of the bill enforceable?
Enforceable via employee agent
Maddox is Gordon's 17-year-old son. He is a whiz at repairing machines and is employed doing so at the factory full-time during the summer. He has already worked 40 hours this week, but some machines still need repaired. Is Max eligible for overtime pay?
Maddox must be paid overtime
Which of the following would be considered a situation of legal employment discrimination?
Meryl, who has a disability, is rejected from a job position because she doesn't have a certification for the job she would be doing.
For the scenario, determine whether or not the person should be covered by worker's compensation protections. Noel is on break at work and is bored. He climbs up on a conveyer belt and comically uses it as a treadmill. He slips on the belt and falls down, and his hand gets stuck in the belt and is injured. Noel's actions are typical, and his employer knows that he usually engages in this kind of behavior.
Noel will be covered
Which statement matches the following scenario? Layne is romantically interested in his employee, Brenda. He has asked her out a few times, but Brenda has turned him down.
Not guilty of sexual harassment
NuKere, a nuclear plant, accidently leaks hazardous waste onto a nearby property, despite having recently passed a rigorous set of safety checks. Under standards of strict liability, which of the following is true?
Nukere should be held liable because of the dangerous nature of hazardous waste. Regardless of safety checks, the accident happened.
Ozzy recently started working at a new company. He has been solicited several times to join the union of the company, but he would prefer not to. The union officials tell Ozzy that he won't be allowed to keep working unless he joins the union. Which of the following is true?
Ozzy's requirement to join the union depends on his state of employment.
Training opportunities are what kind of a bargaining subject?
Permissive bargaining subject
Which of the following was an effect of Norris LaGuardia?
Prioritization of employment to a worker over a worker to his or her business
Fill in the blank that completes the statement. Alonzo's Crooked Cake Shop has had workers attempting to unionize in order to be able to work fewer hours per week. Alonzo's argues in court that because there is only one other cake shop in the region, a strike and other union activities would disrupt competition in the cake business. Alonzo's is using __________ to prevent union activities.
Antitrust law(s)