Employment law and ethics

1. Which of the following statements is true regarding the relationship
of law and ethics?

a. The legal requirements will almost always be the same as the ethical
requirement because the law is based on the ethical standards.

b. In some cases ethics will require a higher standard of conduct than
the law, but never vice versa.

c. In some cases the law will require a higher standard of conduct than
ethics, but never vice versa.

d. Depending on the circumstances, the law can require a higher, lower,
or the same standard of conduct as ethics demands.



 



2. Which of the following is correct with regard to the relationship
between law and ethics?

a. The rule of law and the golden rule of ethics demand the same
response.

b. The law may not permit something that would be ethically wrong.

c. Lawful conduct is always ethical conduct.

d. Although much of law is based one ethical standards, not all ethical
standards have been enacted as law.

3. Which of the following best describes the employment at will
doctrine?

a. Employees remain employed only if the employer wants them to be
employed.

b. Employees remain employed only if the employee wants to be employed.

c. Employees remain employed only if both the employer and the employee
want the employment relationship to continue.

d. Whether an employment relationship continues is based on the will of
the government.

4. Under the employment at will doctrine, an employment relationship can
be terminated:

a. By the employee only.

b. By the employer only.

c. Only by mutual agreement of the employer and the employee.

d. By either the employee or the employer.

e. Only by court order.

5. Which of the following best describes the status of the employment at
will doctrine in the United States today?

a. It applies in most states to most employment relationships, but
there are many exceptions that limit its application.

b. It applies more today than in the last century, and the quantity of
corporate layoffs is evidence of this.

c. It today applies only to the employer, although in the past it
applied to both the employee and employer.

d. It still applies today, but only to employees who are expressly told
that they are an at-will employee when they are hired.

e. It is the underlying basis on which discrimination is prohibited in
employment.

6. Under what doctrine are both the employer and employee free to
terminating employment relationship at any time?

a. The mutual employment doctrine.

b. The free dissociation doctrine.

c. The independent contracting employment doctrine.

d. The employment at will doctrine.

e. The employment freedom of termination doctrine.

7. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has the power to do the
following except:

a. Pass amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964and other
antidiscrimination statutes.

b. File suits to enforce antidiscrimination statutes on behalf of
complainants.

c. Conduct investigations related to the antidiscrimination laws.

d. Interpret antidiscrimination statutes.

TitleVII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

8. Which is true about the two kinds of discrimination that are
actionable under Title VII?

a. Disparate impact and disparate treatment are both based on how an
employer treats a specific individual.

b. Disparate impact and disparate treatment are both based on how an
employer treats a protected class.

c. Disparate treatment refers to individuals and disparate impact refers
to protected classes.

d. Disparate impact refers to individuals and disparate treatment refers
to protected classes.

 

9. Which of the following is true about the American Federation of
Labor?

a. It was formed in the early part of the twentieth century.

b. When formed, only skilled craft workers were allowed to join.

c. All members of other unions are automatically members of it.

d. It is not allowed to engage in political lobbying.

 



 10. The two labor organizations that combined in 1955 were:

a. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers.

b. The United Auto Workers and the American Federation of Labor.

c. The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations.

d. The United Steel Workers and United Auto Workers.

e. The United Steel Workers and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations.