As a result of the NLRA, employers cannot discriminate against employees with regard to hiring, discharge, or working conditions because of their what?

• A. union activities
• B. political beliefs
• C. race
• D. gender

Answer: (A)

Union involvement is protected under the National Labor Relations Act. The act safeguards employees’ rights to organize, join a union, and participate in union activities, and it bars employers from discriminating in hiring, firing, or working conditions because someone engages in those activities. In other words, you can’t be kept from a job, fired, or treated unfavorably at work just for joining a union, attending union meetings, or supporting collective bargaining.

Other attributes like race or gender are protected by separate civil rights laws, and political beliefs aren’t protected in the same way by the NLRA (though some states or other statutes may provide other protections). So the best fit for what the NLRA prohibits discrimination for is union activities.