Flashcards
Federal Legislation Governing ELR Activities
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- 1Enforcement Agency for Civil RighstEqual Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
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Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) - 2Enforcement Agency of Executive ordersOffice of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)
- 3Enforcement Agency of Mass layoffsDepartment of Labor
- 4Enforcement Agency of PolygraphDepartment of Labor
- 5Enforcement Agency of PrivacyDepartment of Justice
- 6Enforcement agency of Veterans’ rightsDOL
Veterans Employment and Training Service - 7Enforcement agency of Labor relationsNational Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
- 8What law requires employers to furnish a workplace that is free from sexual harassment?Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its subsequent amendments
- 9When was the Glass Ceiling Act sign into law as an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1991?1991
- 10When was the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) enacted?1994
- 11Who does the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) protect?- It protects the rights of reservists called to active duty in the armed forces.
- It provides reemployment and benefits rights and is administered through the Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS) of the DOL - 12Which employer is covered under the USERRA?All public and private employers in the United States, including the federal government
- 13What is the first piece of legislation to impact the labor movement ?the Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890
- 14What did the Sherman Antitrust Act allow?The act allowed injunctions, court orders that either require or forbid an action by one party against another, to be issued against any person or group that conspired to restrain trade.
- 15Which act limited the use of injunctions to break strikes and exempted unions from the Sherman Act?The Clayton Act
- 16What is the Clayton Act about?It limited the use of injunctions to break strikes and exempted unions from the Sherman Act.
- 17Which act was to avoid interruptions due to strikes, protect the rights of employees to join a union, and allow for a “cooling-off” period of up to 90 days if the president deemed a strike to be a national emergency?the Railway Labor Act
- 18Which act was to protect the rights of employees to join a union, and allow for a “cooling-off” period of up to 90 days if the president deemed a strike to be a national emergency?The Railway Labor Act
- 19Which act was to allow for a “cooling-off” period of up to 90 days if the president deemed a strike to be a national emergency?The Railway Labor Act
- 20Which act applies to airlines?The Railway Labor Act
- 21Which act protected the rights of workers to organize and strike without the interference of federal injunctions?The Norris-La Guardia Act
- 22What does The Norris-La Guardia Act protect?The rights of workers to organize and strike without the interference of federal injunctions.
- 23What act was passed in response to employer complaints about union abuses?The Taft-Hartley Act, or Labor-Management Relations Act (LMRA) of 1947
- 24Which act prohibits closed shops and allows union shops only with the consent of a majority of employees?Yhe Taft-Hartley Act, or Labor-Management Relations Act (LMRA),
- 25Which act provides that states have the right to outlaw closed and union shops by passing “right to work” laws?The Taft-Hartley Act or Labor-Management Relations Act
- 26Which act prohibited jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts?The Taft-Hartley Act or Labor-Management Relations Act
- 27Which act established Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)?The LMRA
- 28Under the Taft-Hartley Act or the LMRA, what power is granted to the president?The president is granted the power to obtain an injunction ending a strike or lockout for an 80-day cooling-off period if, in the president’s estimation, the continuation of the strike could “imperil the national health or safety.”
- 29Which act grants the president the power to obtain an injunction ending a strike or lockout for an 80-day cooling-off period if, in the president's estimation, the continuation of the strike could "imperil the national health or safety"?The Taft-Hartley Act or the LMRA,
- 30What act placed controls on internal union operations?The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959, aka the Landrum-Griffith Act
- 31Which act provided a bill of rights for union members that required equal rights for all members to participate in the union?The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or Landrum-Griffith Act
- 32Which act granted freedom of speech and assembly for union members to gather and discuss union issues?The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or the Landrum-Griffith Act
- 33Which act restricted increases in dues and assessments to those that were approved by majority vote of the union?The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or the Landrum-Griffith Act
- 34Which act gave employees the right to sue the union and provided safeguards against retaliatory disciplinary actions by the union?The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or the Landrum-Griffith Act
- 35Which act prohibited “extortionate picketing” by unions and required that union leadership elections be conducted no less often than every 3 years for local unions and every 5 years for national or international officers?The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or The Landrum Griffith Act
- 36Under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or The Landrum Griffith Act, how often is union leadership elections allowed to be conducted?No less often than every 3 years for local unions and every 5 years for national or international officers
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