Employment
This type of work includes a company setting goals and the worker controlling how their work is completed.
What is an independent contractor?
This organization enacts rules and regulations designed to achieve safety in the workplace.
What is OSHA?
This is the state mandated insurance system that provides medical treatment, partial wages and rehabilitation for workers injured on the job.
What is worker's compensation?
This type of property includes rights and interests in land, buildings and things permanently affixed to them.
What is real property?
The most common way that property is acquired.
What is by contract?
This type of termination happens when a job is completed or the time of employment in the contract is up.
What is termination by performance?
The "this for that" form of workplace harassment where job benefits are conditioned on favors.
What is quid pro quo?
This is when a person on the job is aware of danger that could cause injury, but voluntarily remains in that situation.
What is assumption of risk?
This type of property includes anything that is not real property.
What is personal property?
This is when 2 or more people have ownership rights in the same property.
What is co-ownership?
This is when an employee is fired in a way that violates the law, public policy, or terms of a contract.
What is wrongful discharge?
This act enacted in 1964 forbids employers, agencies and unions from discriminating based on race, age, religion, etc.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
True/False: Employees waive the right to sue their employer if they file for worker's compensation.
True.
This type of personal property can be touched, such as phones, cars, etc.
What is tangible personal property?
This type of ownership is when one personal owns all of the property involved.
What is ownership in severalty?
For this type of termination, employers and employees can end their relationship at any time for any reason.
What is termination at will?
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act forbids discrimination of employees over this age.
What is 40?
The amount of your wages that will be provided to you by Worker's Compensation.
What is 2/3?
This is commercially valuable information that owners attempt to keep secret to avoid use by competition.
What are trade secrets?
This is when a co-owner of a property dies and their ownership shares are transferred to the remaining owner rather than given to a beneficiary.
What is right of survivorship?
The number of hours a 14-15 year old in Indiana can work during a school week.
What is 18?
This is what the OSHA acronym stands for.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
These are the 3 categories of injuries covered by worker's compensation.
What are physical, mental and occupational?
This type of property includes copyrights, trademarks, and patents.
What is intellectual property (or intangible personal property)?
Engagement rings are legally classified as this until the marriage occurs.
What is a conditional gift?