Topic 4 Flashcards
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
A federal law that protects workers age 40 and older from employment discrimination based on their age.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
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.
Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, and 1871
These acts prohibit employers from discriminating against minorities.
Employee Referral Programs
Word-of-mouth advertisements that generally involve rewarding employees for referring skilled job applicants to an organization.
Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA)
A federal law requiring that employers provide equal pay for men and women who do similar work in the same workplace.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)
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.”
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)
A federal law that prohibits the use of genetic information in employment decisions and restricts employers from requesting, requiring, or purchasing genetic information.
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA)
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).
Job Posting
An open invitation to all employees, through prominent display of notice, to apply for a job vacancy.
KSAs
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.
Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
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.
Promotion-within Policy
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.
Recruiting
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.
What Information Does a Candidate Profile Provide?
Information regarding the candidate’s experience or skills related to specific jobs which may list the candidate’s job preferences and interests.
What Information Does a Job Profile Provide?
Detailed job descriptions as well as job specifications
What Is An Educational Institution?
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
What Is An Employee Referral?
A word-of-mouth advertisement in which a current employee refers a skilled job applicant to an organization.
What Is An Employment Agency?
A business that pre-screens and provides applicants that employers would have difficulty finding otherwise.
What Is Job Matching?
A systematic effort to identify people’s KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities) and match them to job openings
What Is Job Rotation?
A program in which trainees learn the tasks and functions of multiple job positions
What Is a Job Posting?
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
What Is a Promotion?
When a current employee moves from one position in the company to one of a higher skill and/or pay level
What Is a Temporary Agency?
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
What Is a Trade Association?
A local labor organization
What Is a Transfer?
When a current employee moves from one position in the company to another of a similar skill and pay level
What Is a Walk-in?
Candidate approaches the employer about job; employer may or may not have a job opening that is a fit for candidate
What Is the Purpose of Recruitment?
To generate a pool of potentially qualified applicants and to help organizations meet their legal and social responsibility
What Is the Purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
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.
What Is the Purpose of the Civil Rights Act?
To make it unlawful to refuse to recruit or hire an individual based on the individual’s race, color, national origin, religion, or sex
What Is the Purpose of the Family and Medical Leave Act?
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.
What Is the Purpose of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
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
