ch 24 vocab Flashcards
Common law doctrine under which either party may terminate an employment relationship at any time for any reason, unless a contract specifies otherwise.
Employment at Will
Employees disclosure to gov’t authorities, upper level managers, or media that the employer is engaged in unsafe/illegal activities.
Whistleblowing
Employers termination of an employees employment in violation of the law.
Wrongful Discharge
Lowest wage, either by gov’t regulation/union contract, that an employer may pay an hourly wage.i
Minimum Wage
State Statues establishing an administrative procedure for compensating workers for injuries that arise out of- or in the course of- their employment, regardless of fault.
Workers Compensation Law
Creation of an absolute/unconditional right/power.
Vesting
Process that all employers in the U.S. must perform w/in three business days of hiring a new worker to verify the employment eligibility and identity of the worker by completing an I-9 Employment Verification form.
I-9 Verification
Document, commonly known as a “green card” that shows that a foreign born individual has been lawfully admitted for permanent residency in the U.S. Persons seeking employment can prove to prospective employers that they are legally w/in the U.S. by showing this receipt.
I-551 Alien Registration Receipt
Firm that requires union membership by its workers as a condition of employment. CS was made illegal by the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947.
Closed Shop
firm that requires all workers, once employed, to become union members w/in a specified period of time as a condition of their continued employment.
Union Shop
State law providing the employers may not be required to join a union as a condition of retaining employment
Right to Work Law
Agreement in which employers voluntarily agree w/ unions not to handle, use, or deal in other employers goods that were not produced by union employees; a type of secondary boycott explicitly prohibited by Labor Management Reporting & Disclosure Act of 1959.
Hot Cargo Agreement
Unions refusal to work for, purchase from, or handle the products of a secondary employer, w/ whom the union has no dispute, in order to force the empolyer to stop doing business w/ the primary employer, w/ whom the union has a labor dispute.
Secondary Boycott
Card signed by an employee that gives a union permission to act on their behalf in negotiations w/ management.
Authorization Card
Process by which labor and management negotiate the terms and conditions of employment, including working hrs and workplace conditions.
Collective Bargaining
Action undertaken by unionized workers when collective bargaining fails; workers leave their jobs, refuse to work, and picket employers work place.
Strike
