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Question 1

Challenges to legal compliance

Answer 1

Dynamic legal landscape

Complex laws

Question 2

Why must managers understand the legal environment?

Answer 2

Right thing
Limitations of HR and legal departments
Limiting potential liability

Question 3

Fair employment

Answer 3

Decisions are not affected by illegal discrimination

Question 4

Equal pay act

Answer 4

Same pay for man and woman

Question 5

Title VII

Answer 5

Employment decisions are not based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

Question 6

Protected class

Answer 6

Group of people who suffered discrimination in the past and who are given special protection by the judicial system

Question 7

Disparate treatment

Answer 7

Individuals are treated differently because of their membership in a protected class

Question 8

Disparate impact

Answer 8

The equal application of employment standard has an unequal effect on one or more protected classes

Question 9

Prima facie

Answer 9

The responsibility of the plaintiffs to show reasonable evidence that discrimination has occurred

Question 10

4/5 rule

Answer 10

HR practice is discriminatory and has an adverse impact

Question 11

Bona fide occupational qualification

Answer 11

A characteristic that must be present in all employees for a particular job

Question 12

Title VII and pregnancy

Answer 12

Requires employers to employee was pregnant in the same way as any other employee who has a medical condition

Question 13

Quid pro quo sexual harassment

Answer 13

Sexual activities required in return for getting her keeping a job or job related benefit

Question 14

Hostile work environment sexual harassment

Answer 14

The behavior of anyone in the work setting is sexual immature and is perceived by unemployment as offensive and undesirable

Question 15

Civil rights act of 1991

Answer 15

And then meant to title VII

Question 16

Punitive damages

Answer 16

Find awarded to plaintiffs in order to punish the defendant

Question 17

Compensatory damages

Answer 17

Finds a word into a plaintiff to compensate for the financial or psychological harm the plaintiff has suffered

Question 18

Quotas

Answer 18

Employer adjustments of the hiring decisions to ensure that a certain number of people from a certain protected class are hired

Question 19

executive order

Answer 19

A policy with which all federal agencies and organizations doing business with the federal government must comply

Question 20

Age discrimination in employment act

Answer 20

Prohibits discrimination against people who are 40 or older

Question 21

American with disabilities act

Answer 21

For disappointment discrimination against people with disabilities were able to perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation

Question 22

Individuals with disabilities

Answer 22

Persons who have a physical or mental impairment substantially affects one or more major life activities

Question 23

Essential functions

Answer 23

Job duties that each person in a certain position must do able to do to be an effective employee

Question 24

Reasonable accommodation

Answer 24

And action taken to accommodate the known disabilities of applicants employees so that disabled persons enjoy equal employment opportunity

Question 25

Equal employment opportunity commission

Answer 25

Enforce EEO laws

Question 26

Conciliation

Answer 26

An attempt to reach you negotiated settlement between the employer and employee application in case

Question 27

Office of federal contract compliance programs

Answer 27

The federal agency responsible for more monitoring and of course in the lost and executive orders that apply to the federal government and his contractors

Question 28

Reverse discrimination

Answer 28

Discrimination against me not protected class member resulting from attempts to recruit and hire members are protected classes

Question 29

How to avoid pitfalls in EEO

Answer 29

Provide training
Establish a complaint resolution process
Document decisions
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