Regulatory Compliance Flashcards
Sarbanes-Oxley: The moste widely adopted section of this act is the development of a __________ ______ of ____.
Corporate Code of Ethics
Sarbanes-Oxley also protects whistle blowers. What are whistle blowers?
Employees who disclose illegal practices of their employers. Their jobs are also protected if they cooperate, testify, or otherwise assist law enforcement investigations or Congress into the investigation of their employers.
Name a few prohibited activities in regards to the Code of Ethics.
- ) Hiring relatives
2) Carrying Phantome employees
3) Borrowing money from employees, vendors, or customers
4) accepting bribes, kickbacks, gifts from vendors or customers
5) accepting discounts on purchases from vendors that are not offered to the general public.
6) falisfying business records, tax returns or reports to government agencies.
7) carrying off the books accounts or funds
8) performing paid services for customers on a personal basis outside normal company channels
9) blacklisting employees, customers, or vendors
10) fixing bids or sharing pricing or cost information with competitors
11) requiring customers to buy unwanted products in order to get products they do want.
Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in virtually every employment circumstances on the basis of:
Race, color, religion, gender, pregency or national origin.
Civil Rights Act makes administrators consider questions during an interview. You should only ask…
Job related questions.
Sexual Harassment is a form of sex discrimination that may violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The law applies to all employers with more than ___ or more employees.
a. ) 10
b. ) 15
c. ) 20
d. ) 30
b.) 15
According to Americans with Disabilities Act, you may not dicriminate against qualified individuals with disabilites in:
Job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, training and other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.
When an individual’s disability creates a barrier to employment opportunities the ADA requires employers to consider whether a _______ _______ could remove the barrier.
Reasonable Accommodation
Age Discrimination protects
individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age.
COBRA gives workers and their families who lose health benefits __________
the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided their group health plan for limited periods of time.
Consumer Credit Protection Plan protects employees from discharge by thier employers because _____
their wages have been garnished for any one debt.
Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 grantees what?
Provide drug-free workplaces as a precondition of receiving a contract or grant from a Federal agency.
What does The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) prohibits?
unlawful access and certain disclosures of communication contents.
The Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 (EPPA) prevents employees from?
using lie detector tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment.
The Employee Retirement Income Security ACt of 1974 (ERISA) sets minimum standards for what?
Most voluntarily established pension and health plans.
