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Employees that are NOT subject to the overtime provisions of the FLSA, including most executive, administrative, professional, and outside sales employees.
Who are exempt employees?
100
A required benefit that is funded through payroll taxes paid by employers, and is designed to proivide compensation to those employees how have been laid off from employment.
What is unemployment insurance?
100
a set of rules governing the allocation of economic benefits and opportunities on the basis of service with one employer
What is a seniority system?
100
Certain actions take by employers or unions that violate the NLRA.
What are unfair labor practices?
100
any formal complaint filed by an employee or union concerning any aspect of the employment relationship.
What is a grievance?
200
a deferred wage increase in which a larger proportion of the total increase occurs in the first year of a multiyear contract.
What is front-end loading?
200
company-sponsored programs designed to assist employees in resolving personal problems, such as stress, finances, and alcoholism, that may adversely affect job performance and attendance.
What is an employee assistance program?
200
special seniority rights granted to union officers and committee personnel that override ordinary seniority during layoffs and recall situations in order to maintain active union representation within the company.
What is superseniority?
200
NLRB rule that prohibits employers and unions from making organizational campaign speeches on company time to assemblies of employees within 24 hours of a scheduled election.
What is the 24-hour rule?
200
A discipline system for addressing minor employee misconduct that usually includes several levels of penalties such as warnings, reprimands, suspensions, and finally, termination.
What is progressive discipline?
300
A wage system that pays newly hired workers less than current employees performing the the same or similar jobs.
What is a two-tier wage system?
300
A federal law that provides for the continuation of medical and dental insurance for employees, spouses, and dependents in the event of an employee's death, termination, divorce, or other loss of health care eligibility.
What is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)?
300
Also know as the Plant Closing Act, this act requires employers to provided 60 days of advance written notice to employees and communities of either a plant closing or mass layoff.
What is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
300
Any legitimate action taken by employees to further their common but not individual interests, such as wages, hours and working conditions. An examples would be a stirke.
What is a concerted activity?
300
agreement between the union and the employer that allows an employee who was fired for misconduct his/her job back with the condition that if the employee violates the agreement he/she will be discharged without right of an appeal.
What is a last chance agreement?
400
A type of group incentive plan in which greater production is achieved through increased efficiency, with the accrued savings being distributed among the workers and the employer.
What is Scanlon Plan?
400
A lump sum or a dispersal of payments given to employees who are permanently separated from the company through no fault of their own.
What is severance pay?
400
the status of the collective bargaining relationship between an employer and the union when a change in the ownership of the organization or a change in a union occurs.
What is successorship?
400
an illegal partial strike in which employees call in sick to protest a working condition
What is a sickout?
400
The use of a neutral third party as one step in a grievance procedure. The mediator facilitates the parties developing a resolution of the grievance themselves and thus avoiding arbitration.
What is grievance mediation?
500
The payment of overtime on overtime that occurs if the same hours of work qualify for both daily and weekly overtime payment. Typically this is prohibited.
What is pyramiding?
500
The process by which an employee accrues nonforfeitable rights over employer contributions that are made to the employee's qualified retirement plan account. Generally, nonforfeitable rights accrue based on the number of years of service performed by the employee.
What is vesting?
500
type of drug and alcohol testing that is unions typically resist
What is random drug testing?
500
A CBA provision that keeps all other provisions in the agreement in place should one provision become null and void.
What is a severability clause
500
sufficient or proper reasons for which management has the right to discipline or discharge employees
What is just cause?
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