HRCI aPHR Multiple Choice questions with 100% correct answers

HRCI aPHR Multiple Choice John, a new employee, has just arrived at the orientation program where everyone completes their payroll forms and signs up for healthcare benefits. He brings his W-4 form to you and says he isn't subject to payroll withholding because he pays his taxes directly each quarter. What is your response? - correct answer "Unfortunately, all employees are subject to payroll tax withholding" The Wagner-Peyster Act protects employees who are: - correct answer Unemployed May has had a bad encounter with her supervisor, Henry. That evening after getting home from work, she pulls out her computer and sends a blistering blog post to her Facebook page. She names her company and her supervisor. She calls him unfair, pigheaded, and without principles. When can the company do about her posting? - correct answer The company is prohibited from any action against Mary because she is engaged in a protected concerted activity Pete is sensitive about the security of his personal identity information since his credit card has been stolen twice in the past year. He is trying to clear up his credit rating because of the problems with the stolen cards. Now, he has approached the HR manager at his organization and requested that his Social Security number be removed from all of the company records. He thinks that a mistake could cause him more grief if the Social Security number were to be obtained by thieves. As the HR professional, what should you do? - correct answer There is a need for the company to keep the Social Security number for tax reporting. Pat is talking with her colleagues about illegal discrimination at work. Someone mentions that the company is going to be sending out a request for updated race and sex information. Pay says that illegal. The company isn't supposed to track any of that information. - correct answer Pat has not understood the FLSA requirements that employers keep race and sex data on employees. The TBC handles conveyor belt installations for many small firms. Each of the customer projects begins on a day that is most convenient for the customer. Sometimes, that's Monday; sometimes it's Thursday or some other day. The HR Manager says that the company will adjust its workweek to begin when the customer's project starts. That way, each installation team has a separate workweek, and those workweeks can shift several times a month.What is your advice about this strategy? - correct answer Once the workweek has been designated to begin on a certain day of the week, it should not be changed by the HR manager. Sandy is 15 years old and a sophomore at Central High School. She gets a job at a local hamburger drive in. Her boss says he needs her to work the following schedule during the Spring Break week: 4 hours at lunch time every day, 9 hours on Saturday, and 6 hours on Sunday. Is that schedule acceptable for Sandy given that she has a work permit for the school? - correct answer Federal law says Sandy cannot work more than 8 hours a day when it is a vacation week Gary is a junior at Southpark High School. He is 17 years old. The school needs some help in its warehouse during the summer, and Gary needs a job so he can save money for college. His boss is the facilities manager. Gary is assigned to work 9 hours every day during the week because one of the other employees is on disability leave. And because the other employee was the forklift driver, Gary has been given training in how to drive that equipment around the warehouse and loading dock. He likes that duty because he has been driving a car for only a few months. The forklift is cool. Is there any difficulty with the facilities manager's requirements of Gary? - correct answer Even though Gary can work unlimited hours, he cannot be assigned to drive the forklift. The TBC doesn't have an HR manager. HR is handled by the payroll clerk. When a new employee is assigned to the production department as an assembler, the payroll clerk raises a question. Should the new person be paid the same as all the other employees, all women, in the department, or is it okay to pay her more because she made more at her former job? - correct answer There is no restriction on the amount paid because all the incumbents are women. Finding a life insurance company to provide benefits to its workforce has been difficult for Joan, the HR manager. She decides to recommend that her company offer a self-insured plan. What controls might Joan have to consider in her planning? - correct answer ERISA regulates welfare benefit plans, including life insurance. Simone has just been hired and is asked to complete a Form I-9. She offers her driver's license as proof of her identity. What else is required for her complete the document? - correct answer She may offer any document authorized on the Form I-9 instructions as proof of her authorization to work in this country. Steve is the HR director for a crane operations company. He just got a phone call from one of his field supervisors with tragic news. One of their units has collapsed, and their operator is in the hospital with serious injuries. What should Steve do with that information? - correct answer He should notify OSHA about the accident and injuries. Every year Donna has to attend training on the use of the company vehicles she drives. She thinks this is silly waste of time. Donna knows how to drive, and she knows the company vehicles. Why should she attend training every year? - correct answer Safety programs must be developed that provide for refresher training on all equipment operating procedures. Jerry just arrived at work and found a sink hole in the parking lot. He is early enough that other people have not yet begun arriving for work. Because the hole is about 10 feet across at the moment, What should Jerry be doing about the problem? - correct answer If Jerry is a management employee, he should take charge of the situation and begin the process of alerting others to the danger posed by the sink hole. Theresa attended a seminar recently that pointed out the need to post a yearly summary of injury and illness cases. Her boss doesn't want to do that, saying he doesn't want to publicize the problems the organization has had. Theresa should tell him: - correct answer Posting requirements call for display of the report in a prominent location is there are 10 or more people on the payroll. An employer routinely works with hazardous chemicals, trucking them for delivery to various customer locations. After each load, the truck must be cleaned before being loaded with a different chemical. Cleaning has to be done by someone inside the tanker using the special absorbent materials. What else should be considered? - correct answer Personal protective equipment should be provided by the employer, including breathing apparatus and hazmat suit. Shelly has worked for the same dentist for more than 10 years. In all the time, there has been no mention for any special requirements for handling syringes. She arranges the doctor's equipment trays every day and cleans them up after they have been used. She just tosses the use equipment into the autoclave or into the trash if it won't be used again. If you were advising Shelly about the practices used in her dental office, what would you say? - correct answer Any possible harm can be prevented if used syringes are placed into an approved sharps container. Olivia suspects her payroll clerk of embezzlement. She has inspected the records for the past 3 months, the pattern is clear. But to be sure it is the payroll clerk and not the accounts payable clerk, Olivia wants to confront her and demand she take a lie detector test. - correct answer Lie detector tests can be required only in limited circumstances, and this isn't one of them. You can't test her. For the past 6 years, Sam's company has been a federal contractor working on equipment for the Department of Defense. The company has additional contract opportunities coming up, the Sam isn't sure if there will be an extra burden related to disabled workers because they are subject to both the ADA and Rehabilitation Act. - correct answer Whatever Sam thinks, the ADA and Rehabilitation Act