Reference no: EM131825606
Assessment:
1. Describe how NLRB rulings have impacted job security and workplace seniority?
2. What are the key issues in an employee alcohol- and drug-testing program? Identify the types of drug testing used by employers, and explain the general steps followed when performing drug tests. Discuss the employee's attitudes toward drug testing.
3. Match each description to the correct term.
- have generally been used because they are easy to develop and provide an objective, unambiguous means of considering employees when job openings occur.
- May be defined as arranging to make goods or perform services with another firm that could be accomplished by the bargaining unit employees within the employer's current facility.
- This senior-based procedure became a common layoff and recall decision criteria.
- Contract provisions that specify how seniority, ability, and other factors will be used to determine the order of employee temporary job layoffs and recalls.
- Occurs when employees with greater seniority whose jobs have been phased out have the right to displace employees with less seniority.
- Supreme Court upheld a CBA seniority system even though the layoffs adversely affected blacks hired under a court order to remedy past discrimination.
- The process of a company posting notices of new job positions to give permanent employees the opportunity to apply.
- A new job security issue appearing in more newly negotiated agreements and in more discipline cases. Many employers, private and public sectors, have created policies to limit its use in the workplace. Violation of such policies can lead to termination.
- Include the rights to remain employed during times of layoffs, rights to promotion opportunities, and to a fair hearing in cases involving discipline, as well as the need to have work performed by employees within the company rather than subcontracting or increasing the use of automatic equipment.
- Involvement that creates an environment in which people have an impact on decisions and actions that affect their workplace, not the terms and conditions of their employment.
A. Layoff and recall rights
B. Seniority list
C. Bumping
D. Stotts case
E. Subcontracting/outsourcing
F. Last hired/first fired rule
G. Employee teams
H. Job security
I. Seniority systems
J. Departmental seniority system
K. Job bidding
L. Social media
M. WARN Act