Consumer Law
The right to safety, the right to be informed, the right to be heard and the right to choose.
What are the four basic consumer rights?
To assure safe and healthy working conditions by authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the act.
What is OSHA?
EEOC
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
Property that comes from creations in the mind
What is intellectual property?
If a product is faulty you have this right to a refund and for any damages from the faulty product.
What is the right to redress?
The right to be present during an OSHA inspection and to speak with the inspector privately.
What are rights employees have under OSHA?
Three of the 9 catagories that employers may not discriminate against.
What is Race. Color, Religion, Gender, Pregnancy, Age, Disability, Nation of Origin, Genetic Information?
The name of the Washington DC office that registers intellectual property
What is the United States Patent and Trademark Office?
The internet company is the only option in your community and you have to choose them violates this consumer right.
What is the right to choose?
Provide hearing exams, provide instruction in the language that the employees can understand.
What must employers do under OSHA?
An accommodations that an employer must make for employees in the workplace
What is a disablity?
Grant property rights to the owner of an invention or new way of doing something.
What is a patent?
A company was cited for dumping waste water into the local streams and violated this consumer right.
What is the right to a safe environment?
By phone, by mail or by email
What are the ways you can file a complaint through OSHA?
The act that allows you to miss work to take care of a sick family member.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
A symbol, design, phrase or word that distinguishes the source of a product or service.
What is a trademark?
Labeling that indicates any side effects to a medications satisfies this consumer right.
What is the right to information?
Self employed workers
Family farm workers
Who is not covered by OSHA?
The federal (and PA) minimum wage.
What is 7.25?
Recipes, literary work, dramatic work, and musical and artistic work are examples of these
What is a copyright?