Why Work?
The task or duties that are performed to accomplish something, for compensation, experience, or both.
What is work?
The first stage of an organized labor dispute when unions engage in formal negotiation with business managers in the industry.
What is collective bargaining?
Someone employed by another for wages or salary, and typically in a position below the executive level.
What is an employee?
The money given on top of the wage; also referred to as gratuity.
What is a tip?
Money or equivalent given in addition to an employee's usual compensation.
What is bonus?
A significant reason a person has for doing what they do, which helps to make a career meaningful.
What is a purpose?
The process of negotiation, from the onset of the dispute to the signing of the labor contract.
What is labor relations?
A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
What is an entrepreneur?
What is wage?
A fee paid to an agent or employee for transacting a piece of business or performing a service.
What is commission?
A specific duty, role or function.
What is a job?
Describes the terms of the agreement of the dispute.
What is a labor contract?
A corporate executive who develops new enterprises within a corporation.
What is an intrapreneur?
A wage fixed by legal authority or by contract as the least that may be paid.
What is minimum wage?
A type of compensation based on employer-recognized success.
What is incentive?
A profession for which one trains and is undertaken as a permanent calling.
What is a career?
An action that union members make that puts pressure on a business because it deprives businesses of the labor resources they need to make a profit.
What is a strike?
An employee who is not eligible for overtime pay, even if they work beyond the full-time hours established in their contract.
What is an exempt employee?
Fixed compensation paid regularly for services.
What is salary?
A nonmonetary form of compensation provided to employees in addition to their salaries and wages.
What is a benefit?
A group of occupations within the same field that require similar knowledge or skills.
What is a career cluster?
Formal negotiation when both unions and businesses select third party individuals to review the facts, hear both sides, and make a legally binding decision as a means of a solution.
What is arbitration?
An employee who receives a salary based on a fixed number of hours (usually 40 hours per week) and is compensated with overtime pay after 40 hours in one week.
What is a non-exempt employee?
The amount of money earned before any taxes and deductions are taken.
What is Gross Pay?
When an employee receives additional pay at one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for work that exceeds the typical 40-hours in one week.
What is overtime pay?