Healthcare Employment Law Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Solved Papers)
True of False: Until 1960's employers were virtually free to
treat employees as they wished - Correct Answers ✅True
True or false: Employers could refuse to hire anyone and
terminate employment without reason or cause in the 1960s - Correct Answers ✅True Employment-at-will doctrine definition Do we still use this doctrine today? - Correct Answers ✅Allows employers to terminate the employment at any time for any reason. We still utilize this doctrine today but we've crafted ways to empower employees How did we address employment-at-will? - Correct Answers ✅By seeking legal resource through legislatures -Both federal and State legislatures passed Statutes (statutes and exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine have dramatically changed with field of employment law and effected the employer-employee relationship) statute definition - Correct Answers ✅a written law passed by a legislature on the state or federal level 1 / 4
Healthcare Employment Law Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) -Statutes tell you what you can't do -It identifies the federal agency that is in charge of the reinforcement -These statutes gave us a great number of rights What do statutes do? (EXAM QUESTION) - Correct Answers ✅-set forth general propositions of law that courts apply to specific situations -May forbid a certain act -Direct a certain act -make a declaration -set forth governmental mechanisms to aid society Can statutes be changed? - Correct Answers ✅Legislature can repeal or amend -courts can interpret thus effectively changing them 2 / 4
Healthcare Employment Law Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Solved Papers)
True or false: Employers can disregard statutes simply
because the don't agree with them, and ignorance can be used as a defense - Correct Answers ✅FALSE... statutes are LAWS Statutes dealing with the employer-employee relationship fall into four categories which are... (4 reasons) EXAM QUESTION
- Correct Answers ✅-Discrimination statutes
- Statutes dealing with pay issues
-Statutes dealing with safety and health issues (many people die in the work place and we have to look out for people and keep them safe) -Statutes dealing with labor relations Case law definition - Correct Answers ✅When a judge issues a finding it is referred to as an opinion. The compilation of opinions comprise case law.Case law allows lawyers to somewhat predict the potential outcome of cases as case law is published and indexed by subject 3 / 4
Healthcare Employment Law Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Stare decisis definition - Correct Answers ✅The court has to abide by previous findings. This forces judges to make the same ruling based on similar aspects of previous cases (provides predictability).
Initiating a lawsuit there are two parties: Plaintiff and
Defendant. Define. - Correct Answers ✅Plaintiff is the employee who initiated the lawsuit Defendant is the employer that is being sued Public law - Correct Answers ✅a statutory basis to the complaint... public law is when the employer has violated a law and it harms the employee.-public laws deal with the relationship between the government and private parties (e.g. EEOC, MCAD) -Government agency files the complaint and in effect becomes the employees legal counsel.Private law - Correct Answers ✅Deal with the relationship between private parties.
- / 4