Business, 19.03.2021 18:00 michaylabucknep7u3y2

Abigail Harrison works as a secretary at BuildCo, a large construction company that specializes in government contracts. Abigail is in charge of reviewing the invoices that BuildCo is sent to the state of Vermont regarding the construction of a new facility for the state's department of transportation. Abigail discovers that BuildCo managers have been illegally overcharging the costs of time and materials in their invoices to state officials. Abigail tells her co-worker Irene Ichan about the overcharges during a lunch break and suggests that they should be fixed. Two weeks later, Abigail is abruptly fired by her immediate supervisor. Assuming that her termination was because of her disclosures to Irene, did BuildCo legally terminate Abigail? 1. Employment at will (does - does not) give employers broad discretion to hire and fire their employees.
2. Employment at will (requires - does not require) employers to give an employee sufficient notice before the employee is discharged.
3. The most common exception to the employment at will doctrine is the exception based upon (contract theory - tort theory - public policy).
4. The public policy exception (may - may not) apply to an employee discharged for whistleblowing.
5. Whistleblowing involves the disclosure of (unsafe - inappropriate) or (unethical - illegal) activity to appropriate individuals or entities, such as government authorities, upper-level managers, or the media.
6. Did Abigail speak about illegal activities by her employer?(yes-no)
7. Did Abigail report her findings of illegal overbilling to government authorities?(yes-no)
8. Did Abigail report her findings of illegal overbilling to upper-level managers? (yes-no)
9. Did Abigail report her findings of illegal overbilling to the media? (yes-no)
10. Is Abigail a whistleblower under the law? (yes - no)
11. Why? (Abigail did not report illegal activity. - Abigail did not report activity to the necessary individuals or entities)
12. Can BuildCo legally fire Abigail in this case? (yes - no)

Answers: 3

Show answers

Other questions on the subject: Business

Business, 22.06.2019 04:00, 702580

Medtronic, inc., is a medical technology company that competes for customers with st. jude medical s. c., inc. james hughes worked for medtronic as a sales manager. his contract prohibited him from working for a competitor for one year after leaving medtronic. hughes sought a position as a sales director for st. jude. st. jude told hughes that his contract with medtronic was unenforceable and offered him a job. hughes accepted. medtronic filed a suit, alleging wrongful interference. which type of interference was most likely the basis for this suit? did it occur here? medtronic, inc., is a medical technology company that competes for customers with st. jude medical s. c., inc. james hughes worked for medtronic as a sales manager. his contract prohibited him from working for a competitor for one year after leaving medtronic

Answers: 2

continue

Business, 22.06.2019 06:40, lexhorton2002

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

Answers: 1

continue

Business, 22.06.2019 11:00, sbelgirl2000

Consider an economy where government expenditures are 10 and total tax revenues are 10. the supply of labor is fixed at 125 and the supply of capital is fixed at 8. the economy is described by the following equations. y k to the power of 1 divided by 3 end exponent l to the power of 2 divided by 3 end exponent c 2.5 + 0.75 ( y - t ) i 10 - 0.5 r the level of private savings is

Answers: 1

continue

Business, 22.06.2019 15:00, cheyfaye4173

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget. the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead. a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year. actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.

Answers: 3

continue

You know the right answer?

Abigail Harrison works as a secretary at BuildCo, a large construction company that specializes in g...