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1. ERISA compels employers to offer a pension plan to all the employees.
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2. The Scanlon plan’s major purposes are to reward both parties for productivity gains, encourage participation, and tie pay to company performance.
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False
3. Because a unionized workforce increases wage costs, compared to unorganized firms in the same industries, a unionized firm is at a competitive disadvantage.
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False
4. Unionized firms invest more in research and development because of the more skilled and productive labor.
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False
5. Aaron, an employee at a manufacturing company, earns $18 an hour. If the company agrees to a new wage contract, Aaron will be paid $18.72 an hour. What is the percentage of wage increase the company must agree to?
A. 5 percent
B. 3.5 percent
C. 4 percent
D. 2.5 percent
6. If an employee selects a pension plan in which a fixed percentage of profit is allocated to each employee in proportion to his/her proportion of total employee pay in that employee group, which pension plan did he/she select?
A. Defined benefit
B. Salary reduction
C. 403(b)
D. Defined contribution
7. According to an extensive study of union wage differentials:
A. The private sector wage premium is higher today than it was in the 1970s.
B. Public sector wage effects are smaller than those in the private sector.
C. Nonunion workers are able to resist employers’ efforts to reduce wages better than unionized workers.
D. There remains big variation in the premium across workers.
8. According to various studies on union’s effects on a firm’s performance:
A. Unionized firms are 20 percent more productive than nonunionized firms in auto parts industries.
B. Productivity was higher in public sector establishments in the hospital industry.
C. Student achievement was negatively affected by unionization in education.
D. Nonunionized workers were more productive than unionized workers in the construction industry.
9. The scientific management system included a hierarchical organizational and supervisory structure in which rank-and-file workers had a major say in the workplace.
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False
10. Employees who are entitled to an overtime premium are often referred to as exempt employees.
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False