EMPLOYMENT LAW: VOCABULARY -
C233 WGU EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
American with Disabilities Act (ADA) - ANS Employers with 15 or more employees are
prohibited from discriminating against people with disabilities. In general, the employment
provisions of the ADA require:
- equal opportunity in selecting, testing, and hiring qualified applicants with disabilities
- job accomodation for applicants and workers with disabilities when such accomodations
would not impose "undue hardship"
- equal opportunity in promotion and benefits
Affirmative action - ANS Making an extra effort to hire and promote those in protected
groups, particularly when those groups are underrepresented
Affirmative action plan - ANS Plan that analyzes a workforce to determine whether protected
classes are underutilized in different job groups, and describes how an organization will address
any underutilization that exists
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) - ANS Act prohibiting arbitrary age
discrimination, specifically protecting individuals over the age of 40
Agency theory - ANS Person (for example, a manager) is expected to act on behalf of a
principal (for example, the owner of the company)
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, Animus - ANS Mind set or intention
Arbitration - ANS A procedure for resolving collective bargaining impasses by which an
arbitrator (third party) chooses a solution to the dispute
Bargaining unit - ANS A group of employees performing jobs in an industry with sufficient
"community of interests" to constitute a unit to be represented in collective bargaining
BFOQ (Bonafide Occupational Qualifications) - ANS Job requirements that an employee be a
particular religion, sex, or national origin that is reasonably necessary to business operations.
For instance, it is assumed that an opening for a Baptist minister at a local Baptist church would
be filled by a minister who is actually a person who celebrates the Baptist religion and not, say,
the Episcopal religion
Business necessity - ANS A practice necessary for safe and efficient organizational operations
Case law - ANS The law is laid down in the the decisions for the courts (distinct from statutes
or other sources of law)
Civil law - ANS Laws that deal with the rights of people rather than with crimes
Color - ANS Skin pigmentation especially other than white characteristic of race
Common law - ANS Principles developed over centuries as a result of legal decisions made by
judges in individual cases
Comparable worth - ANS A public policy that advocates remedies for any undervaluation of
women's jobs (also called pay equity)
Complaint - ANS A formal allegation against a party
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C233 WGU EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
American with Disabilities Act (ADA) - ANS Employers with 15 or more employees are
prohibited from discriminating against people with disabilities. In general, the employment
provisions of the ADA require:
- equal opportunity in selecting, testing, and hiring qualified applicants with disabilities
- job accomodation for applicants and workers with disabilities when such accomodations
would not impose "undue hardship"
- equal opportunity in promotion and benefits
Affirmative action - ANS Making an extra effort to hire and promote those in protected
groups, particularly when those groups are underrepresented
Affirmative action plan - ANS Plan that analyzes a workforce to determine whether protected
classes are underutilized in different job groups, and describes how an organization will address
any underutilization that exists
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) - ANS Act prohibiting arbitrary age
discrimination, specifically protecting individuals over the age of 40
Agency theory - ANS Person (for example, a manager) is expected to act on behalf of a
principal (for example, the owner of the company)
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, Animus - ANS Mind set or intention
Arbitration - ANS A procedure for resolving collective bargaining impasses by which an
arbitrator (third party) chooses a solution to the dispute
Bargaining unit - ANS A group of employees performing jobs in an industry with sufficient
"community of interests" to constitute a unit to be represented in collective bargaining
BFOQ (Bonafide Occupational Qualifications) - ANS Job requirements that an employee be a
particular religion, sex, or national origin that is reasonably necessary to business operations.
For instance, it is assumed that an opening for a Baptist minister at a local Baptist church would
be filled by a minister who is actually a person who celebrates the Baptist religion and not, say,
the Episcopal religion
Business necessity - ANS A practice necessary for safe and efficient organizational operations
Case law - ANS The law is laid down in the the decisions for the courts (distinct from statutes
or other sources of law)
Civil law - ANS Laws that deal with the rights of people rather than with crimes
Color - ANS Skin pigmentation especially other than white characteristic of race
Common law - ANS Principles developed over centuries as a result of legal decisions made by
judges in individual cases
Comparable worth - ANS A public policy that advocates remedies for any undervaluation of
women's jobs (also called pay equity)
Complaint - ANS A formal allegation against a party
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