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Question 1

The employment contract provides a set of rights, responsibilities and obligations that structure the behaviour of whom?

a) Both parties

b) The employee

c) The employer

d) Trade unions

Question 2

What did the Whitely Councils establish? Was it:

a) Tripartite employee relations

b) Collective bargaining framework

c) Trade unions

d) Employer associations

Question 3

Substantive rules are those which determine:

a) Rules governing redundancy

b) Rules governing discipline and grievance

c) Trade union recognition

d) Rates of pay and how levels are determined

Question 4

Are those employers that reflect a unitary perspective to employee relations generally:

a) Welcoming of them

b) Hostile to trade unions

c) Seeking agreement with single unions

d) None committal either way

Question 5

What % of membership does a trade union have to demonstrate amongst the group it is wishing to represent before it can apply to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC)?

a) 10%

b) 40%

c) 20%

d) 5%

Question 6

If a local collective agreement on pay and conditions is in place, who benefits?

a) Only those employees who are members of the trade union

b) All employees regardless of union membership

c) All employees in that industry nationwide

d) All employees regardless of union membership who are in the grade of work covered by the agreement

Question 7

Apart from pay what is the second most common reason for employees to join a trade union?

a) Group solidarity

b) Friendship groups

c) Political reasons

d) Wide range of personal benefits

Question 8

In organising industrial action a Union is encouraging its members to break their contractual obligation to attend work. Is this action:

a) Protected by union immunity

b) Unlawful

c) Referred to as a 'wild cat strike'

d) Such that employers can sue the union for loss of earnings

Question 9

What are the types of industrial action a union is most likely to engage in?

a) Unofficial action

b) Strike action

c) Action short of a strike

d) Absence

Question 10

The psychological contract refers to the obligations that an employer and an employee perceive to exist between each other as part of the employment relationship. As such it will include:

a) The loyalty and trust of employees

b) Pay and working conditions

c) Managers pay only 'lip service' to consultation

d) Managers reneges on commitments to employees

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