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__________________________ defines dangerous occupations and regulates
what types of jobs workers under 16 may have. Ans✓✓✓ FLSA
Age discrimination claims are: Ans✓✓✓ On the rise
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) Ans✓✓✓ Bans age
discrimination for jobs unless age is related to job performance
Agency Relationship Ans✓✓✓ Fiduciary relationship (relationship of trust) in
which agent acts on behalf of principal.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) 1990 Ans✓✓✓ The ADA is a civil rights law
that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of
public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places
that are open to the general public.
An employer may claim that 50 percent of employees are non-white minorities or
women. However, if the minority employees or women are concentrated in low
paying positions, and all the white employees hold high paying managerial
positions, this would be best described as: Ans✓✓✓ Pattern and practice
discrimination is characterized by the types of imbalances and discrimination
exemplified in this situation.
Author Dave Bernard, in a 2012 U.S. News and World Report article, argues that
older workers are better workers because: Ans✓✓✓ They possess abundant
knowledge and experience
,Because of ___________________________, employers are permitted to
investigate a prospective employee's credit history. Ans✓✓✓ Fair Credit
Reporting Act
Before the final passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Virginia Democrat, Senator
Howard W. Smith, inserted into the language of the legislation defining the class
of persons protected under the anti-discrimination provisions of Title VII the
word: Ans✓✓✓ Sex - He did so in an attempt to defeat the legislation, as there
existed a strong anti-women animus among unions and supporters of the
legislation who did not want women included in the protections offered by Title
VII.
BFOQ defense Ans✓✓✓ A bona fide occupational qualification defense is a
defense that a company can assert when it has hired, or fired, or promoted
somebody that is based on a protected characteristic (public employee).
Boycott Ans✓✓✓ A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some
organization in protest against its policies.
Closed Shop Agreement Ans✓✓✓ Specified workers had to be members of a
union before being hired for a job.
Collective Bargaining Agreement Ans✓✓✓ A contract negotiated by the
employer and representatives of the labor union, and it covers issues related to
employment.
, Common Law Agency Test Ans✓✓✓ A test that classifies a worker as an
employee if the employer maintains the right to control the method of work
performed.
Common Law Ans✓✓✓ Principles developed over centuries as a result of legal
decisions made by judges in individual cases.
Conglomerate Ans✓✓✓ A group of diverse companies under common ownership
and run as a single organization
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act Ans✓✓✓ federal law that
requires employers to permit employees or their dependents to extend their
health insurance coverage at group rates for up to 36 months following a
qualifying event, such as a layoff, reduction in hours, or the employee's death
Constructive Discharge Ans✓✓✓ Constructive dismissal, also called constructive
discharge or constructive termination, occurs when an employee resigns as a
result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation
was not truly voluntary, it is, in effect, a termination.
Courts will find a RIF plan discriminatory if: Ans✓✓✓ 1) used as an opportunity to
eliminate older workers; 2) based upon subjective criteria; or 3) employed as a
pretext to avoid ADEA concerns.
Define employment at-will doctrine. Ans✓✓✓ The predominant rule governing
employer-employee relations that states that an employer may terminate an
employee at any time, for any legal reason, without incurring liability..