LGS 200 Test 4 Final Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Workers' Compensation Laws
Answer: state laws that establish procedures for compensating most workers injured on the job; an
*exclusive* remedy (can't sue employer) unless the employer intentionally caused the employees' injury
Question 2: Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA)
Answer: employers must provide a safe workplace; federal act
Question 3: Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)
Answer: covers employers engaged in interstate commerce, regulates child labor, minimum wages, and
overtime pay
Question 4: Children under 14 can only work:
Answer: for their parents, as newspaper deliverers, in the entertainment industry, and on a family farm
Question 5: Minimum Wage
Answer: $7.25; between state and federal ____ ____ the employee is entitled to the higher of the two
Question 6: Overtime Pay
Answer: employees must be paid no less than *one and a half times their regular pay* for all hours over
*forty hours*
Question 7: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Answer: guarantees workers unpaid leave and allows up to *twelve weeks* of leave during a *twelve
month* period; after the leave, the employees must be restored to his or her original, or comparable position
Question 8: Key employees
Answer: those whose pay falls within the top 10% of the employer's workforce are excepted
Question 9: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)
Answer: prohibits the elimination of a worker's medical, optical, or dental insurance coverage on the
voluntary or involuntary termination or reduction in hours of the worker's employment; have 60 days to stay
on former employers insurance after being terminated, can stay on for 18 months
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, Question 10: Electronic Monitoring
Answer: employers have a right to monitor the employee's email, blogs, instant messages, tweets, social
media, smartphone, and internet use; *to avoid liability*, employer's should *notify its employees*
Question 11: Title VII (7) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Answer: prohibits employment discrimination against employees, applicants, and union members on the
basis of race, color, national origin, religion and gender at any stage of employment (hiring, firing,
promotions, demotion, disciplinary actions)
Question 12: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Answer: must first be registered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; if chosen not to sue to
enforce the law, it will issue a *right to sue letter* notifying the victim he/she may file a private lawsuit
against his/her employer
Question 13: Disparate-Treatment employment discrimination
Answer: an employer treats an *individual* less favorably than others because of that person's race, color,
national origin, gender or religion
Question 14: Disparate-Impact employment discrimination
Answer: an employer discriminates against *an entire protected class* (race, color, national origin, gender,
or religion); can occur when a an employer adopts a work rule that is *neutral on its face* but can be said to
be discriminatory; (ex. hiring only people of certain height)
Question 15: Reverse Discrimination
Answer: discrimination against the members of the majority
Question 16: National Origin
Answer: the country of a person's birth, their *ancestry, heritage or cultural characteristics*
Question 17: Discrimination based on Gender
Answer: also known as sex discrimination; employers may not discriminate against employees on the basis
of gender
Question 18: Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
Answer: under discrimination based on gender; an employer must treat an employee temporarily unable to
perform her job due to a pregnancy related condition the same way as the employer would treat others
similar in ability to work
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Question 1: Workers' Compensation Laws
Answer: state laws that establish procedures for compensating most workers injured on the job; an
*exclusive* remedy (can't sue employer) unless the employer intentionally caused the employees' injury
Question 2: Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA)
Answer: employers must provide a safe workplace; federal act
Question 3: Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)
Answer: covers employers engaged in interstate commerce, regulates child labor, minimum wages, and
overtime pay
Question 4: Children under 14 can only work:
Answer: for their parents, as newspaper deliverers, in the entertainment industry, and on a family farm
Question 5: Minimum Wage
Answer: $7.25; between state and federal ____ ____ the employee is entitled to the higher of the two
Question 6: Overtime Pay
Answer: employees must be paid no less than *one and a half times their regular pay* for all hours over
*forty hours*
Question 7: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Answer: guarantees workers unpaid leave and allows up to *twelve weeks* of leave during a *twelve
month* period; after the leave, the employees must be restored to his or her original, or comparable position
Question 8: Key employees
Answer: those whose pay falls within the top 10% of the employer's workforce are excepted
Question 9: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)
Answer: prohibits the elimination of a worker's medical, optical, or dental insurance coverage on the
voluntary or involuntary termination or reduction in hours of the worker's employment; have 60 days to stay
on former employers insurance after being terminated, can stay on for 18 months
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, Question 10: Electronic Monitoring
Answer: employers have a right to monitor the employee's email, blogs, instant messages, tweets, social
media, smartphone, and internet use; *to avoid liability*, employer's should *notify its employees*
Question 11: Title VII (7) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Answer: prohibits employment discrimination against employees, applicants, and union members on the
basis of race, color, national origin, religion and gender at any stage of employment (hiring, firing,
promotions, demotion, disciplinary actions)
Question 12: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Answer: must first be registered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; if chosen not to sue to
enforce the law, it will issue a *right to sue letter* notifying the victim he/she may file a private lawsuit
against his/her employer
Question 13: Disparate-Treatment employment discrimination
Answer: an employer treats an *individual* less favorably than others because of that person's race, color,
national origin, gender or religion
Question 14: Disparate-Impact employment discrimination
Answer: an employer discriminates against *an entire protected class* (race, color, national origin, gender,
or religion); can occur when a an employer adopts a work rule that is *neutral on its face* but can be said to
be discriminatory; (ex. hiring only people of certain height)
Question 15: Reverse Discrimination
Answer: discrimination against the members of the majority
Question 16: National Origin
Answer: the country of a person's birth, their *ancestry, heritage or cultural characteristics*
Question 17: Discrimination based on Gender
Answer: also known as sex discrimination; employers may not discriminate against employees on the basis
of gender
Question 18: Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
Answer: under discrimination based on gender; an employer must treat an employee temporarily unable to
perform her job due to a pregnancy related condition the same way as the employer would treat others
similar in ability to work
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