HR Forecasting
When HR managers identify specific training programs for specific employees. This prepares them for future jobs as well as for current jobs.
What are individual Developmental Action Plans?
The three "mandatory topics of bargaining" under the Wagner Act (NLRA).
What are: "Wages," "hours," and "working conditions"?
Of the three types of distributive justice standards -- equity, equality, need -- family-friendly benefits (e.g., child care centers) are based on this.
What is "need"?
This federal law provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for child birth (or adoption) or for chronic medical conditions or for long-term medical conditions.
What is the 1993 Family & Medical Leave Act.
The cases of PhoneDog v. Kravitz and Eagle v. Morgan both raised this question.
Who owns an employee's business-related social media account?
A diagram showing who is 'destined' to move into what jobs and what training is needed prior to those moves.
What is a "Replacement Chart" (aka. a "Manpower Forecast Chart")?
A firm [can/cannot] legally prohibit gossip and negative posts about a company, if they are related to a labor dispute.
What is "cannot"?
Two types of "cafeteria-style" benefits.
What are (1) "core-plus," and (2) "modular"? [Can you distinguish these? How do these relate to "Family-friendly benefits"? How do these relate to "justice"?]
True or false? The EEOC provided guidance in 2022 about "family responsibility discrimination:" It said that it is illegal unless the firm creates a culture of merit.
What is "False"? [Hmm...What guidance did the EEOC give?]
Key differences between American Medical Response (AMR) & Butler Medical Transportation (BMT) cases.
AMR: workers CAN criticize mgt. among themselves on social media. BMT: a worker CANNOT falsely defame a co.
Trend analysis and economic indicators are tools used to forecast this.
What are "HR staffing needs"?
The NLRB ruled these two things about social media "likes" in the Triple Play Sports Bar case.
What are: "(1) not every "like" shows agreement with every specific statement made in a discussion; (2) not every “Like” is protected - it depends on the context"?
A type of Family-friendly benefit (e.g., flextime, telecommuting) that encourages parents to restructure work time to cope with family demands.
What are Integrative benefits?
These types of "family" rights can only be waived retroactively in return for cash; they cannot be waived prospectively (in the future).
What are FMLA rights?
Supreme Court ruling: Dept. of Labor requirement [that a firm MUST give "advance notice" if a worker was to get FMLA leave while also taking Co.-provided leave at the same time (concurrently)] was too strict. So, DOL RELAXED the advance notice rule.
What was Ragsdale v. Wolverine?
A method of forecasting HR Needs, where P = (work load / no. of staff members needed)
What is "Productivity Ratio analysis"?
This type of mandatory meeting allowing employers to voice opposition to unions was made illegal by the Biden NLRB. It will probably be allowed again under the Trump NLRB.
What are "Captive Audience" meetings?
One study found a positive correlation between the number of work-family life practices offered by HR and this.
What is [either] (1) 'Perceived Support for Families' or (2) 'Affective Commitment to Company'?
IF the employee is collecting this type of state family leave, then the firm CANNOT REQUIRE the employee to also collect employer-provided paid time off benefits (e.g. sick leave).
What is PAID state family leave? [NOTE: The employer CAN require the concurrent use of paid state sick leave AND unpaid FMLA leave, if that is allowed by state law].
DS waters of Arizona established that if you buy a firm, and an employee was on FMLA leave when you became owner, then you ___.
What is "Must re-hire the employee when he/she returns from FMLA leave -- you cannot fire that employee"?
A chart with the probabilities that people will leave, get promoted, or stay in the same jobs during the next year.
What is Markov analysis?
This 2023 NLRB decision saying no longer would "work rules" be presumed to be lawful. Instead, they would be analyzed from a pro-union worker's perspective.
The Stericycle decision, overturning the Boeing standard. [HINT: Google each standard to see the key differences].
Ko, Hur, & Smith-Walter found _(a)_ moderated the correlation (r) between dependent care benefits & job satisfaction and _(b)_ moderated the r between care benefits and perceived org.'l performance.
What are (a) "supervisor support" and (b) "top management support"?
A WI manager asked a worker to "friend" him on social media. This request is ___ under WI law.
What is "Illegal"?
This 2023 NLRB case changed the way that unions are certified.
Cemex [Do you know HOW it changed the union certification process? If not, a quick 'Google search' might help you...]