The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations requires the state’s

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The question is testing three elements - Parallel construction, Pronoun reference and Meaning.

The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations requires the state’s over one hundred thousand private employers to display its union rights sign and informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its working conditions.

Meaning: The Department gave an instruction to Private employees - Display the union rights of the company. Now the union rights highlight the various rights the employees have. With this meaning Lets do POE

A)sign and informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its

>> 1. Meaning wise, the choice states that the department informs the employees of their rights - Incorrect as the intended meaning is different.
>> 2. its at the end of the choice refer to employees, which is plural

B)sign, which informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve their

>> Here the parallel construction is X or Y, or A or B, which is correct - Union rights highlight two things (1. Right to Join or form a union, 2. Right to take collective action)


C)sign, informing employees of its right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its

>> -ing modifer implies that the department's act of requirement leads to informing employees - Incorrect
>> Its is again incorrect reference to employees

D)sign and inform employees of its right to join, form a union, take collective action or improve its

>>Changes the meaning.

E)sign, which informs employees of their right to join, form a union, take collective action, or improve their
>> Correct as per the intended meaning but the parallelism is not followed.

According to me OA could be B.

I am also going with B!
But I am not 100% sure

Please share your detail approach to the question.

In A, C and D, its (singular) does not agree with employees (plural).
Eliminate A, C and D.

E: informs employees of their right to join, form
Here, join lacks a direct object.
As a result, it is unclear what organization employees have a right to join.
Eliminate E.

The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations requires the state???s over one hundred thousand private employers to display its union rights sign and informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its working conditions.

A)sign and informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its

B)sign, which informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve their

-> CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THE STRUCTURE: X OR Y OR Z OR W etc..HOW IS THIS CORRECT? LIKE, FOR "AND", WE HAVE X, Y, AND Z.
SIMILARLY, SHOULD THE CORRECT STRUCTURE WITH "OR" NOT BE: X, Y, Z OR W?

C)sign, informing employees of its right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its

D)sign and inform employees of its right to join, form a union, take collective action or improve its

E)sign, which informs employees of their right to join, form a union, take collective action, or improve their

Request explanation for the answer please.

Thanks Harsh9676 - This clarifies my doubt. Appreciate your response.

The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations requires the state’s over one hundred thousand private employers to display its union rights sign and informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its working conditions.

A)sign and informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its
Informs is used as a verb for the subject department as if department informs employees. So the verb 'informs' need not be parallel to the verb 'requires'. This type of error is termed as superficial parallelism. Logically speaking department requires the state to display its union rights sign. Remember union rights sign is used as a compound noun here. Moreover 'its' is a singular possessive pronoun. 'its' cannot refer back to a plural noun 'employees'
B)sign, which informs employees of their right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve their
The relative clause that begins with 'which' modifies the noun 'sign'. Subject of the verb 'informs' is 'sign'. Moreover the pronoun 'their' refers back to the noun employees. No error so correct answer choice.
C)sign, informing employees of its right to join or form a union or to take collective action to improve its
'informing' is used as a present participle with comma. We use present participle with comma when we have a cause and effect relationship in the sentence. Here the sentence doesn't convey a cause and effect relationship. Moreover a singular possessive pronoun its cannot refer back to a plural noun 'employees'. So this is also wrong.
D)sign and inform employees of its right to join, form a union, take collective action or improve its
like the option A 'inform' is used as a verb and 'its' is a singular possessive pronoun. So this is also wrong
E)sign, which informs employees of their right to join, form a union, take collective action, or improve their
sign gives employees two option. Either join or form a union or to take collective action. We need an infinitive. So it should be to improve. So this option is wrong

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