What legislation created a national minimum wage, mandatory overtime premium for

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What legislation created a national minimum wage, mandatory overtime premium for qualified workers, and restrictions on child labor?

Select one:

a. Employee Free Choice Act

b. Equal Pay Act

c. Employee Retirement Income Security Act

d. Civil Rights Act

e. Fair Labor Standards Act

If employees do not like their current union and would like a different union to represent them, can they make this change?

Select one:

a. Yes, the Taft-Hartley Act gives employees the right to have any union they want to represent them.

b. Yes, and they have the option of being represented by two unions concurrently (at the same time).

c. No, no federal law gives employees a right to change unions.

d. Yes, but not in the middle of a existing contract (they must wait).

e. Yes, if a majority of employees want to change unions, they may do so as soon at any time.

Detailed systems of narrow job classifications and precise job descriptions are most likely to threaten:

Select one:

a. Procedural flexibility

b. Employment flexibility

c. Functional flexibility

d. Pay flexibility

The Industrial Workers of the World was born in part out of frustration over the:

Select one:

a. CIO's emphasis on industrial unionism at the expense of crafts and tradespeople.
b. tendency for unions to focus exclusively on unskilled workers.

c. NLU's inability to organize a national federation of labor unions that could support each other in times of struggle.

d. AFL's willingness to settle for small, day to day gains, in light of the oppressive work practices of the ownership class.

e. KOL's failure to recognize the day-to-day struggles of the working class.

Explanation / Answer

What legislation created a national minimum wage, mandatory overtime premium for qualified workers, and restrictions on child labour?

Fair Labour Standards Act or FLSA is a federal law which determines minimum wages, eligibility for overtime pay, child labour standards and recordkeeping and affects full-time and part-time workers in central, state and local governments and also private sector

If employees do not like their current union and would like a different union to represent them, can they make this change?

Yes, but not in the middle of an existing contract (they must wait). An employee has a constitutional right of changing their union as and when they want to, but they may face challenge if their union is affiliated to the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO). The unions affiliated to AFL-CIO have “no raiding” rule which no AFL-CIO union can take a member of another AFL-CIO affiliated union. There is a “cooling off” period of one year before one can become a member of AFL-CIO union member again

Detailed systems of narrow job classifications and precise job descriptions are most likely to threaten:

Pay flexibility is a term which denotes responsiveness of rates of pay to the supply and demand position on the labour market. It means that pay raise is relatively robustly moderated by rising unemployment and is expressed as one of high pay flexibility. Apart from that, if there is little/no response to variations in supply and demand of labour is known as pay rigidity or low flexibility.

The Industrial Workers of the World was born in part out of frustration over the:

AFL's willingness to settle for small day to day gains, in light of the oppressive work practices of the ownership class.

The industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded by around 200 socialists, anarchists and other socialists and labour party members who opposed, very strongly, the policies of American Federation Labour (AFL). IWW was against AFL’s recognition of capitalists and capitalism and their rejection of inclusion of unskilled workers in craft unions.

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