29 Jan A new job security issue

BHR4350 Collective Bargaining

Unit VI Assessment

Question 1

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.

Your response should be at least 400 words in length.

Question 2

Describe how NLRB rulings have impacted job security and workplace seniority?

Your response should be at least 400 words in length.

Question 3

Match each description to the correct term.

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Question

_____________ have generally been used because they are easy to develop and provide an objective, unambiguous means of considering employees when job openings occur.

Seniority systems

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.

Subcontracting/outsourcing

This senior-based procedure became a common layoff and recall decision criteria.

Last hired/first fired rule

Contract provisions that specify how seniority, ability, and other factors will be used to determine the order of employee temporary job layoffs and recalls.

Layoff and recall rights

Occurs when employees with greater seniority whose jobs have been phased out have the right to displace employees with less seniority.

Bumping

Supreme Court upheld a CBA seniority system even though the layoffs adversely affected blacks hired under a court order to remedy past discrimination.

Stotts case

The process of a company posting notices of new job positions to give permanent employees the opportunity to apply.

Job bidding

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.

Social media

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.

Job security

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.