UNIT 7: Unlawful Practices in the Workplace and Profession

Question 1

A person who fails to make use of his knowledge and training and thereby causing an
injury to another person may constitute a crime

Answer 1

degree of instruction and education

Question 2

Indicates a deficiency of perception, or a flagrant and reckless disregard of the safety of others
and willful indifference to the injury liable to follow from an act.

Answer 2

criminal negligence

Question 3

two classes of criminal negligence

Answer 3

• reckless imprudence
• simple imprudence

Question 4

• it happens when one does an act, or fails to do an act voluntarily
  but without malice, from which act or omission a material damage results because of the
  offender’s inexcusable lack of precaution

Answer 4

reckless imprudence

Question 5

a person is guilty of this crime if he shows lack of precaution those
cases in which the damage about to be caused is not immediate or in which the impending
danger is not evident or manifest

Answer 5

simple imprudence

Question 6

• is the consequence of the deliberate act of wounding, beating, or
  assaulting

Answer 6

serious physical injury

Question 7

o injuries not describe as serious, but which incapacitate the
offended party for labor for the days or more, but not more than thirty days

Answer 7

slight physical injury

Question 8

demands, requests or otherwise require any sexual favor from the other, regardless
of whether the demand, request or requirement for submission is accepted by the object of said
act

Answer 8

sexual harassment

Question 9

acts that tend to excite lust; conduct that is voluptuous or lewd
emotion

Answer 9

act of lasciviousness

Question 10

the law also
sanctions other scandalous acts that offend decency or good customs, and are committed in
public places or are committed within the view or knowledge of the public

Answer 10

grave scandal

Question 11

refers to a public and malicious imputation of crime, or a vice or defect, real
or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status, or circumstances tending to dishonor,
discredit, or contempt of a natural or judicial person

Answer 11

defamation

Question 12

committed by means of writing, printing, lithography, engraving, radio, phonograph,
painting or any similar means

Answer 12

libel

Question 13

applies to any act of taking property against the will of the owner, whether
by stealth, confrontation or fraud, whether done quickly or cautiously, and whether large or small
amount of stolen goods is involved

Answer 13

theft or larceny

Question 14

most perennial problem plaguing both the government and private
sectors. A worker is guilty of this offense when he uses his position for dishonest gain, when he
demands or receives for personal use a fee, gift or other valuable things in the course of his official
duties.

Answer 14

graft and corruption