MONEY MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 5 INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNT KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS A WORKER

1. MONEY MANAGEMENTCHAPTER 5 INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNTKNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS A WORKER • If you are employed in the Great Ol’ USA you have certain RIGHTS! What are they? Well some of them are common sense. Some of them you may have never heard about. Let’s go online and hunt up some information on the rights you should be most familiar with! • We’ve talked a lot about Social Security over the past few days. Let’s see if you can tell me a little more about the law that put the program in place. • In what year did the Social Security Act become law? ______________________________ • Which president signed the act into law? ________________________________________ • When was Medicare added to the Social Security Act?_____________________________ • What is Medicare for? _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 2. One of the most important worker protection laws is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. It covers issues such as minimum wage and numbers of hours worked. Let’s see what you can find out about it! • What was the minimum wage when the act was first passed? _________________ • What is the minimum wage now? ________________ • When was the last time the minimum wage was changed? _____________________________ • The Fair Labor Standards Act set the standard work week at how many hours? ___________________. • The Act REQUIRES employers to pay overtime to hourly employees for any time above and beyond that weekly threshold!  • What did the act set the overtime rate to? ___________________ 3. Another set of laws aimed at protecting workers are the “Workers Compensation” Laws. Let’s see what you can find out about them! • Define Worker’s Compensation? _________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • There is a handout entitled the “Teen Worker’s Bill of Rights”. Find it and tell me four of your RIGHTS! • _________________________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________________________