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Overtime pay must always be set at twice the regular pay of an employee.

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The ________ Act forbids the use of oppressive child labor and makes it unlawful to ship goods produced by businesses that use oppressive child labor.

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Under the ________ Act, employees must make contributions (i.e., pay taxes)into the Social Security fund.

The ________ system was established to provide limited retirement and death benefits to covered employees and their dependents.

OSHA is a federal administrative agency within the Department of Labor that is empowered to enforce the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Living wage laws are minimum wage laws enacted by cities.

The general duty standard requires an employer to provide a work environment that does not result in its employees' mental stress.

What is the employer's advantage in offering workers' compensation?

According to the ________ Act, government employees can continue their group health insurance after termination of employment if they wish to do so.

The workers' compensation is a(n)________ remedy where workers cannot receive workers' compensation and sue their employers in court for damages.

Describe the measures taken by the U.S. Department of Labor against oppressive child labor.

Which of the following has to be necessarily proved by a claimant pursuing compensation for an injury, under workers' compensation?

For an injury to be compensable under workers' compensation, the claimant must prove that he or she was harmed by an employment-related injury.

The ________ guarantees workers unpaid time off from work for family and medical emergencies and other specified situations.

________ occurs when an employee has a nonforfeitable right to receive pension benefits.

Under the ________ and state laws enacted to implement the program, employers are required to pay unemployment contributions.

The FLSA makes it unlawful to ship goods produced by businesses that use oppressive child labor.

The federal law called ________ permits employees and their beneficiaries to continue their group health insurance after an employee's employment have ended.

Child actors and performers are exempt from the child labor restriction of the FLSA.

Before the Industrial Revolution, the doctrine of laissez-faire governed the employment relationship in the United States.