Employee Rights and Responsibilities Flashcards
Rights
Powers, privileges, or interests derived from law, nature, or tradition.
Statutory rights
Rights based on laws or statutes passed by federal, state, or local governments.
Responsibilities
Obligation to perform certain tasks and duties.
Contractual rights
Rights based on a specific contract between and employer and an employee.
Employment contract
Formal agreement that outlines the details of employment.
Noncompete agreements
Agreements the prohibit individuals who leave an organization from working with an employer in the same line of business for a specified period of time.
Employment-at-will
(EAW) A common-law doctrine stating that employers have the right to hire, fire, demote, or promote whomever they choose, unless there is a law or a contract to the contrary. Needs to be consistent.
Wrongful discharge
Termination of an individual’s employment for reasons that are illegal or improper.
Constructive discharge
Process of deliberately making conditions intolerable to get an employee to quit.
Just cause
Reasonable justification for taking employment related action.
Due process
Requirement that the employer use a fair process to determine employee wrongdoing and that the employee have an opportunity to explain and defend his or her actions.
Distributive justice
Perceived fairness in the distribution of outcomes.
Procedural justice
Perceived fairness of the processes used to make decisions about employees.
Interactional justice
Perceived fairness about how a person interacts with others.
Open-door policy
A policy in which anyone with a complaint can talk with a manager, and HR representative, or an executive.
Arbitration
Process that uses a neutral third party to make a decision.
Ombuds
Individuals outside the normal chain of command who act a problem solvers for both management and employees.
Right to privacy
An individual’s freedom from unauthorized and unreasonable intrusion into personal affairs.
Whistle-blowers
Individuals who report real or perceived wrongs committed by their employers.
Policies
General guidelines that focus organizational actions.
Procedures
Customary methods of handling activities.
Rules
Specific guidelines that regulate and restrict that behavior of individuals.
Discipline
Form of training that enforces organizational rules.
Discharge
When an employee is removed from a job at an employer.
Separation agreement
Agreement in which a terminated employee agrees not to sue the employer in exchange for specified benefits.
Harassment
Repeated, harmful actions to the extent that it reasonably prohibits an employee from implementing their work.
Defamation
A communication that damages an individual’s reputation and is untrue. Slander is spoken/libel is written.
