Questions
How many people in the U.S. are working while providing care?
What is 1 in 10 people?
What can result in less time spent with family?
What is long shifts, weekend shifts, irregular shifts, and low worker control in the workplace?
Unpaid work
Term for living in poverty despite being employed at least 27 weeks out of the previous year?
What is "working poor?"
Term for interpersonal treatment and communication between management and employees (respect, honesty, etc.)?
What is Interactional Justice?
What percentage of all civilian workers have paid sick leave?
What is 78%?
Term for fairness of organizational processes themselves?
What is Procedural Justice?
What could be done to reduce the number of parents working multiple jobs?
What is decreasing childcare costs? Increasing minimum wage? Increasing availability of affordable housing?
This is a major income contributor to people older than 65
What is Social Security
Term for rewards and recognition (pay, promotion, status, and tenure)?
What is Distributive Justice?
From 1970 until the end of the 20th century, workers ____ and older made up the smallest segment of the labor force.
What is 55?
Four sectors (jobs) accounted for over 50% of non-fatal work-related injuries in 2018. List two.
What is construction and extraction? Farming, fishing, and forestry? Installation, maintenance, and repair? Transportation and Material Moving? **Production is also on here but not a part of the four main ones
Act that requires employers to provide ample break time and a place other than a bathroom stall to breastfeed
Fair Labor Standards Act
Migrant Work
What is temporary work done in another country?
How many states have laws protecting breastfeeding in the workplace?
What is 21 states, DC, and Puerto Rico?
Women made how much to every dollar men made in 2018?
What is 81.6 cents?
Systemic racism is overrepresented in which type of jobs?
What are lower status and lower paying jobs?
What is ~164 million?
What are low-income workers less likely to have access to?
What is paid leave, childcare, and elder care?
What conducts research and makes recommendations for workers health and safety?
What is National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)?
This act punishes employers if they do not provide full-time employees and their families with insurance coverage
What is the Affordable Care ACT (ACA)
36 States enacted laws in 2020 preventing this in the workplace
What is smoking?
How many people commuted to work by private vehicle alone?
What is 119.2 million out of 156.9 million?
Program focused on productivity and results rather than hours or location worked
What is ROWE (Results Only Work Environment)
Program designed to train supervisors to be supportive of employees' work-life balance
What is STAR (Support Transform Achieve Results)