BLAW 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Picketing, National Labor Relations Board, Workplace Bullying
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Financial protections provide employees with a measure of financial security. Fair labor standards act: minimum wage, overtime, child labor. Workers" compensation: payment for injury from work, provide fixed recovery: employees cannot sure employer back in return for negligence. Health insurance: employers with 50 or more full time employees must pay a penalty if they do not provide insurance, consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act. Former employees can keep their healthcare coverage for 18 months after leaving job. It pays benefits to workers who are retired, disabled or temporarily unemployed and to the spouses and children of disabled or deceased workers. Futa provides support to unemployed except a worker who quits or is fired for just cause is ineligible. Pensions benefits: employers are not require to establish pension plans, but if they do, must follow the rules of erisa. Wagner act ensures the right of workers to form unions and encourage management and unions to work together o.
