Final Exam

Question 1

Prohibits employers from discriminating on basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin
Prohibits sexual harassment and discrimination because of pregnancy

Answer 1

Title VII of

1964 Civil Rights Act

Question 2

cannot discriminate against people who are 40 years old or older based on age.

Answer 2

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

Question 3

Prohibits discrimination based on disability and requires Employers to make “reasonable accommodation“ of disability without “undue hardship.” Disabled have access to employment, transportation, public accommodations, and telecommunications services.

Answer 3

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA):

Question 4

an independent federal agency authorized to enforce employment discrimination laws, investigate allegations of discrimination, and interpret statutes by issuing rules, regulations, and guidelines

Answer 4

EEOC-The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Question 5

refusing to hire, failing to promote, firing, or otherwise reducing a person’s employment opportunities for a person in a protected class (race, color, religion, gender, or national origin)

Answer 5

discrimination

Question 6

Evidence that should be presented to prove the charges

Answer 6

proof

Question 7

Consequence that the Court should order

Answer 7

remedy

Question 8

the Act forbids pay discrimination based on gender: employee may not be paid a lesser rate than employees of opposite sex for equal work

Answer 8

Equal Pay Act of 1963

Question 9

job benefits in exchange for sexual favors.

Answer 9

Quid Pro Quo

Question 10

workplace is poisoned by gender-based inappropriate conduct that causes an employee to be less productive or unproductive, when sexual talk and innuendo are so pervasive that a hostile work environment is created for the employee.

Answer 10

Hostile Work Environment

Question 11

Foreign accents and appearances such as skin color may influence discriminatory behavior

Answer 11

National origin discrimination

Question 12

Prohibits employers from disqualifying a job applicant or employee if employee can, with reasonable accommodation, perform the essential functions of the job

A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of an individual’s major life activities
A record of such an impairment, or
One’s being regarded as having such an impairment

Answer 12

Americans with Disabilities Act

Question 13

s/he has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits the person in a major life activity.

Answer 13

Actual Disability

Question 14

a person who has a disability within the meaning of the ADA, and is able to perform the essential functions of their job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Answer 14

Qualified Person with a Disability

Question 15

assistance to a qualified employee with a disability in order to permit the employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Answer 15

Reasonable accommodation

Question 16

is any cost or interference with an employer’s business which is more than minimal.

Answer 16

Undue hardship

Question 17

Prohibits age-based discrimination against employees or job applicants at least 40 years old

Answer 17

Age Discrimination in Employment Act