1. LEGAL GUIDELINES FOR YOUNG WORKERS Business Law II Employment Law Unit

2. Implied Agreement Concerning Work As a young worker, should you ever rely on an implied contract?

3. Employees and Trade Secrets Suppose you worked for a mail-order company and transferred to another one. Can you think of information that you could not transfer without getting yourself and your new employer in trouble?

4. Hiring: The Interview Do you have to answer questions like these: Are you single married, widowed or divorced? Do you own your own home? What dependents do you have? Have you ever been arrested other than for traffic violations?

5. Hiring: Testing Can an employer legally ask you to take a polygraph test?

6. Hiring: Letters of Recommendation Why not get a written recommendation and carry it with you when you apply for a job?

7. Firing an Employee Could you be fired for disloyalty if you reported an illegal act by your employer?

8. Firing and the Employee Handbook Could your use of foul language on the job be grounds for dismissal? # ! @ # ! #

9. Sexual Harassment How will you proceed if you are a victim of sexual harassment?

10. Sexual Discrimination What might you do if you think you are a victim of sexual discrimination?

11. Labor Union Activity Although you have been given a different reason by your employer, you believe you have been fired because of your union activity. What should you do?

12. Child Labor Laws Do you believe there should be separate laws and requirements for young workers?

13. Breaker Boys of 1910 In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee was already campaigning to put the nation’s two million young workers back in school when the group hired photographer Lewis Hine. The Wisconsin native traveled to half the states, capturing images of children working in mines, mills and on the streets. In the following picture he has photographed “breaker boys,” whose job was to separate coal from slate, in South Pittston, PA. Once again, pictures swayed the public in a way cold statistics had not, and the country enacted laws banning child labor.

14. Break Boys of 1910

15. Minimum-Wage Laws Should there be a different minimum wage for young workers than there is for adult workers?

16. Rules for Overtime Pay Should everyone, even salaried workers, be eligible for overtime pay? Are they?

17. Unemployment Insurance Can you think of circumstances under which unemployment benefits would be denied?

18. Rules About Smoking Do you think that people have a constitutional right to smoke where they please?

19. Drug and Alcohol Use Do you think your employer is legally responsible if you, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, cause an injury to another worker?