Employment Law: Vocabulary - C233 WGU
Questions with verified answers
3 Ans✓✓✓ Unions are required to hold officer elections every ______ years, and
candidates must have access to voter rolls
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)
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
,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
Conciliation Ans✓✓✓ Process where a third party acts as an intermediary
between the parties in a labor dispute, helping them to reach a settlement
Conglomerate Ans✓✓✓ A highly diversified firm that has multiple businesses
with no relationships
Constructive discharge Ans✓✓✓ Dismissal that occurs when an employer forces
and employee to resign by creating a work environment that is so unpleasant that
a reasonable person would resign
Contact information Ans✓✓✓ Employers must provide the NLRB with
________________________________ of workers eligible to vote in the election
once it has been authorized.
Continual training Ans✓✓✓ A mandate that all employers provide training to
workers on a periodic basis, and whenever an employee is hired or assigned to a
new job
Covenant of good faith Ans✓✓✓ A presumption that each party in a contract will
deal with each other in good faith and fairness
Questions with verified answers
3 Ans✓✓✓ Unions are required to hold officer elections every ______ years, and
candidates must have access to voter rolls
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)
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
,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
Conciliation Ans✓✓✓ Process where a third party acts as an intermediary
between the parties in a labor dispute, helping them to reach a settlement
Conglomerate Ans✓✓✓ A highly diversified firm that has multiple businesses
with no relationships
Constructive discharge Ans✓✓✓ Dismissal that occurs when an employer forces
and employee to resign by creating a work environment that is so unpleasant that
a reasonable person would resign
Contact information Ans✓✓✓ Employers must provide the NLRB with
________________________________ of workers eligible to vote in the election
once it has been authorized.
Continual training Ans✓✓✓ A mandate that all employers provide training to
workers on a periodic basis, and whenever an employee is hired or assigned to a
new job
Covenant of good faith Ans✓✓✓ A presumption that each party in a contract will
deal with each other in good faith and fairness
