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Our case study this week has a title so long we had to abbreviate it to post it. Case Study Six, “Issue: Did the Company Violate the Collective Bargaining Agreement When it Reduced the Hours of Full-Time Employees to 35 Hours per Week as this Action Relates to the NLRB Charge?” is found in Case Study 11-2 on pages 592-596 of the textbook.

1. What is mean by the Unfair Labor Practice charge being deferred to arbitration? Is the arbitrator’s decision final and binding?

2. What influence do you believe the enactment of the Affordable Care Act had on the Company’s actions?

3. Take the position of the Company and lay out its arguments.

4. Take the position of the Union and lay out its arguments.

5. Now, become the Arbitrator and decide the outcome.

“in the higher mammals and more particularly in mankind, we have clear evidence of mentality habitually effective. In our own experience, our knowledge consciously entertained and systematized can only mean such mentality, directly observed.
“The qualities entertained as objects in conceptual activity are of the nature of catalytic agents, in the sense in which that phrase is used in chemistry. They modify the aesthetic process by which the occasion constitutes itself out of the many streams of feeling received from the past.” Whitehead, Modes of Thought, “Nature Alive,” p. 168

Examine the relation of this claim about the role of “mentality” to Whitehead’s other claim that “the characteristics of life are absolute self-enjoyment, creative activity, aim” (ibid., p. 152).

1. Which of the company’s arguments for independent contractor status are most compelling?

2. Which of the union’s arguments for employee status are most compelling?

3. Are some factors inherently more important than others? If so, which ones, in this case, are more important?

4. Is this simply a case of who wins more of the 9 factors?

5. If you were the Administrative Law Judge working for the NLRB how would you rule in this case and why?

1. If you bought a share of common stock, you would probably expect to receive dividends plus an eventual capital gain. Would the distribution between the dividend yield and the capital gains yield be influenced by the firm’s decision to pay more dividends rather than to retain and reinvest more of its earnings? Explain.

2. Suppose a firm estimates its WACC to be 10%. Should the WACC be used to evaluate all of its potential projects, even if they vary in risk? If not, what might be “reasonable” costs of capital for average-, high-, and low-risk projects?

REVIEW OF THE BOOK GROUNDS FOR DREAMING BY LORI FLORES.