BUS 206 Module 5 and 6 Notes

BUS 206 Module 5 and 6 Notes

Contract exemption for implied An exception to the employment at-will concept states that

remarks made by an employer in an employee handbook or in materials promoting a job may

give rise to an implicit employment contract. exception to the implicit obligation of good faith and

candor an exception to the employment at-will principle that requires employers to treat workers

decently when terminating their employment. educating picketing Picketing intended to

accurately notify the public of an employer-employee labor conflict.

Picketing is a form of organized labor in which participants stand outside an employer's place of

business to tell onlookers of the details of a labor dispute. main protest a protest against an

employer who is actively involved in a labor dispute with the union. government policy

business with their company.

Government policy exemption An exception from the employment-at-will principle that forbids

terminating workers for actions that are consistent with advancing public interests. private

expectations that are acceptable The ECPA only partially applies to communications made

using technology owned by an employer, protecting individual communications from illegal

monitoring or access. further boycott An unlawful labor action in which unionized workers

boycott another firm to pressure it to stop doing business with their employer in a labor dispute.

alert picketing a kind of picketing without protection in which supplies or services to the

employer are stopped. Strike a planned, temporary reduction in labor. legislation on employees'

compensation A state statute that offers financial compensation to workers or their families in