Key Legislature

Question 1

ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008

Answer 1

Amendments to Americans with disabilities Act covering the definition f individuals regarded as having a disability, mitigating measures, and other rules of construction to guide the analysis of what constitutes a disability.

Question 2

Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) 1967

Answer 2

Prohibits discrimination in employment for persons age 40 and over.

Question 3

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990

Answer 3

Prohibits discrimination against a qualified individual with a disability because of his/her disability.

Question 4

Civil Rights Act 1964

Answer 4

First comprehensive U.S. law making it illegal to discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Question 5

Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) 1985

Answer 5

Provides individuals and dependents who may lose medical coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.

Question 6

Drug Free Workplace Act 1988

Answer 6

Requires federal contractors with contracts of $100,000 or more as well as recipients of grants from federal government to certify they are maintaining a drug-free workplace.

Question 7

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) 1988

Answer 7

Generally prevents employers engaged in or affecting interstate commerce from using lie detector tests either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment with certain exemptions.

Question 8

Employee Retirement Income Security Act 1974

Answer 8

Established uniform minimum standards for employer-sponsored retirement and health and welfare benefit programs.

Question 9

Equal Employment Opportunity Act 1972

Answer 9

Amended Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and gave the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission authority to implement its administrative findings and conduct its own enforcement litigation.

Question 10

Equal Pay Act 1963

Answer 10

Prohibits wage discrimination by requiring equal pay for equal work.

Question 11

Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) 2003

Answer 11

Provides some relief to employers using third parties to conduct workplace investigations.

Question 12

Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) 1970

Answer 12

Protects privacy of background information and ensures that information supplied is accurate.

Question 13

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 1938

Answer 13

Regulates employee status, overtime pay, child labor, minimum wage, record keeping, and other administrative concerns.

Question 14

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) 1993

Answer 14

Provides employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for family members or because of serious health condition of the employee.

Question 15

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) 2008

Answer 15

Prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of their genetic information in both employment and health insurance.

Question 16

Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) 1986

Answer 16

Prohibits discrimination against job applicants on the basis of national origin or citizenship; establishes penalties for hiring illegal aliens and requires employers to establish each employee’s identity and eligibility to work.

Question 17

Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA; Taft Hartley Act) 1947

Answer 17

Provides balance in power between the union and management by designating certain union activities as unfair labor practices.

Question 18

Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) 1959

Answer 18

Protects the rights of union members from corrupt or discriminatory labor unions; also known as Landrum-Griffin Act.

Question 19

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act 2009

Answer 19

Creates a rolling time frame for filing wage discrimination claims and expands plaintiff field beyond employee who was discriminated against.

Question 20

National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA) 2008 & 2010

Answer 20

Expanded

Question 21

National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; Wagner Act) 1935

Answer 21

Protects the rights of employees to organize unhampered by management.

Question 22

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act 1970

Answer 22

Established the first national policy for safety and health and continues to deliver standards that employers must meet to guarantee the health and safety of their employees.

Question 23

Older Workers Benefits Protection Act (OWBPA) 1990

Answer 23

Amended Age Discrimination in Employment Act to include all employee benefits; also provided terminated employees with the time to consider group termination or retirement programs, and consult an attorney.

Question 24

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) 2010

Answer 24

Requires virtually all citizens and legal residents of the U.S to have minimum health coverage and requires employers with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health coverage that meets minimum benefit specifications or pay a penalty.

Question 25

Portal to Portal Act 1947

Answer 25

Defines what is included as hours worked and is therefore compensable and a factor in calculating overtime.

Question 26

Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDP) 1978

Answer 26

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

Question 27

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) 1994

Answer 27

Protects the employment, reemployment and retention rights of person who serve, or have served in the uniformed services.

Question 28

Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) 1988

Answer 28

Requires some employers to give a minimum of 60 days notice is a plant is to close or if mass layoffs will occur.