Topic 4

Question 1

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)

Answer 1

A federal law that protects workers age 40 and older from employment discrimination based on their age.

Question 2

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)

Answer 2

A federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. The ADA ensures equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in all aspects of employment as well as in other public services.

Question 3

Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, and 1871

Answer 3

These acts prohibit employers from discriminating against minorities.

Question 4

Employee Referral Programs

Answer 4

Word-of-mouth advertisements that generally involve rewarding employees for referring skilled job applicants to an organization.

Question 5

Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA)

Answer 5

A federal law requiring that employers provide equal pay for men and women who do similar work in the same workplace.

Question 6

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)

Answer 6

This federal law restricts child labor and establishes minimum wage and overtime pay standards for employees. The intent of the law was to “put a floor under wages and a ceiling over hours of work and to abolish abuses of child labor.”

Question 7

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)

Answer 7

A federal law that prohibits the use of genetic information in employment decisions and restricts employers from requesting, requiring, or purchasing genetic information.

Question 8

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA)

Answer 8

A federal law that makes it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants knowingly. Under IRCA, employers may hire only persons who may legally work in the U.S., i.e., citizens and nationals of the U.S. and aliens authorized to work in the U.S. The employer must verify the identity and employment eligibility of anyone to be hired, which includes completing the Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9).

Question 9

Job Posting

Answer 9

An open invitation to all employees, through prominent display of notice, to apply for a job vacancy.

Question 10

KSAs

Answer 10

KSAs are a person’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Knowledge is a theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Skills are proficiencies developed through experience. Abilities, more enduring than skills, are qualities that a person has to perform a certain task.

Question 11

Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978

Answer 11

An amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this Act makes it illegal to discriminate against a woman because of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

Question 12

Promotion-within Policy

Answer 12

A policy in which the employer states a commitment to consider current employees for new or replacement job opportunities before hiring candidates from outside the organization.

Question 13

Recruiting

Answer 13

Recruiting is the set of activities and processes used to obtain sufficient numbers of qualified people so that an organization can select the most appropriate candidates to fill its job needs.

Question 14

What Information Does a Candidate Profile Provide?

Answer 14

Information regarding the candidate’s experience or skills related to specific jobs which may list the candidate’s job preferences and interests.

Question 15

What Information Does a Job Profile Provide?

Answer 15

Detailed job descriptions as well as job specifications

Question 16

What Is An Educational Institution?

Answer 16

A technical school, or 2 or 4 year college through which candidates may gain internships (paid or unpaid), direct referral, or on-campus interviews from employers

Question 17

What Is An Employee Referral?

Answer 17

A word-of-mouth advertisement in which a current employee refers a skilled job applicant to an organization.

Question 18

What Is An Employment Agency?

Answer 18

A business that pre-screens and provides applicants that employers would have difficulty finding otherwise.

Question 19

What Is Job Matching?

Answer 19

A systematic effort to identify people’s KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities) and match them to job openings

Question 20

What Is Job Rotation?

Answer 20

A program in which trainees learn the tasks and functions of multiple job positions

Question 21

What Is a Job Posting?

Answer 21

An advertisement (either physical or virtual) that exposes the job opening to a large number of potential applicants for screening while maintaining a low cost per applicant

Question 22

What Is a Promotion?

Answer 22

When a current employee moves from one position in the company to one of a higher skill and/or pay level

Question 23

What Is a Temporary Agency?

Answer 23

A company that places temporary, temp to hire, or “permanent” hires in other organizations; such an agency may also perform pre-screening and is the “employer of record” for paychecks and any benefit provision

Question 24

What Is a Trade Association?

Answer 24

A local labor organization

Question 25

What Is a Transfer?

Answer 25

When a current employee moves from one position in the company to another of a similar skill and pay level

Question 26

What Is a Walk-in?

Answer 26

Candidate approaches the employer about job; employer may or may not have a job opening that is a fit for candidate

Question 27

What Is the Purpose of Recruitment?

Answer 27

To generate a pool of potentially qualified applicants and to help organizations meet their legal and social responsibility

Question 28

What Is the Purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Answer 28

To prohibit discrimination of qualified people with disabilities who can perform the essential functions of a job with or without a reasonable accommodation. Recruiters may need to converse with applicants to determine what counts as a reasonable accommodation.

Question 29

What Is the Purpose of the Civil Rights Act?

Answer 29

To make it unlawful to refuse to recruit or hire an individual based on the individual’s race, color, national origin, religion, or sex

Question 30

What Is the Purpose of the Family and Medical Leave Act?

Answer 30

To provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave to an employee with a serious health condition, to take care of a family member with a serious health condition, or to add a child to the family; this Act requires an employer to return the employee to the same or a similar job position after leave ends.

Question 31

What Is the Purpose of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?

Answer 31

To prohibit discrimination of candidates or current employees based on the likelihood that potential employees (or their family members) will have future health issues, and to protect the rights of genetic information to remain confidential