Chapter 14: Ensuring a Harassment-Free and Respectful Workplace

Question 1

____ is making a choice such as what you eat for supper or your favorite color.

Answer 1

Discrimination

Question 2

____ is making biased employment decisions against a person because of their protected characteristics.

Answer 2

Illegal discrimination

Question 3

____ is a legal term describing a form of discrimination where a person is subjected to threatening, intimidating, embarrassing, or other offensive and unwelcome behavior because of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, or some other protected characteristics.

Answer 3

Harrassment

Question 4

____, while not a legal term, describes actions that insult or indicate hostility or aversion toward someone. The behavior is not directed at a person because of a protected characteristic.

Answer 4

Disrespectful behavior

Question 5

____ and ____ laws prohibit illegal discrimination and harassment based on protected characteristics, bt those laws do not prohibit disrespectful behavior.

Answer 5

Federal and state employment

Question 6

____ describes a person’s emotional, physical, and romantic attraction to members of the same or opposite gender. (gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual)

Answer 6

Sexual orientation

Question 7

____ refers to an internal understanding of self as a man or woman.

Answer 7

Gender identity

Question 8

____ refers to people whose gender identity, or how they feel about being a man or a woman, does, not match their birth gender

Answer 8

Transgender

Question 9

____ refers to people who change their body from the sex they were born with to match their gender identity.

Answer 9

Transsexual

Question 10

The goal of an effective ____ is to clarify the organizations’ harassment policy, encourage open communication, and stop prohibited behavior.

Answer 10

intervention

Question 11

An employee does not need a strong discrimination or harassment case to have a strong ____ case.

Answer 11

retaliation

Question 12

____, prohibits discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, benefits, job training, classification, and other aspects of employment of the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, pregnancy, and other protected characteristics.

Answer 12

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as amended in 1991

Question 13

The ____ protects applicants and employees forty years of age or older from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, compensation terms, conditions, or privileges of employment.

Answer 13

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

Question 14

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 does not protect workers under the age of ____, although some states do have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination.

Answer 14

40

Question 15

The ____ as amended, protects qualified applicants and employees with disabilities from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, job training, fringe benefits, and other aspects of employment.

Answer 15

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Question 16

____ prohibits the use of genetic information in making employment decisions, restricts employers from disclosure of genetic information.

Answer 16

Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008

Question 17

The ____, as amended, prohibits sex discrimination in payment of wages to women and men performing substantially equal work in the same organization.

Answer 17

The Equal Pay Act of 1967

Question 18

The ___ entitles eligible employees to take up to twelve week of leave during any twelve-month period for one or more of the following reasons: 1. birth of/care for child 2. adoption or foster care process 3. care for spouse, children, parents with serious health conditions. 4. serious health condition preventing employee from preforming duties.

Answer 18

Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA)

Question 19

____ guarantees time off, whether paid or unpaid.

Answer 19

FMLA