U.S. Employment Law & Regulations

Question 1

Any fixed, recurring period of 168 consecutive hours (7 days times 24 hours = 168 hours).

Answer 1

Workweek

Question 2

U.S act that establishes a minimum wage, maximum hours, and health and safety standards for contracts to manufacture or furnish materials, articles, or equipment to the U.S. government or the District of Columbia

Answer 2

Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act

Question 3

Union employees’ right in U.S. to have a union representative or coworker present during an investigatory interview.

Answer 3

Weingarten rights

Question 4

U.S. act that requires some employers to give a minimum of 60 days’ notice if a plant is to close or if mass layoffs will occur.

Answer 4

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Question 5

Type of discrimination that results when a policy that appears to be neutral has a discriminatory effect; also known as adverse impact.

Answer 5

Disparate impact

Question 6

U.S act that prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of their genetic information in both employment and health insurance.

Answer 6

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

Question 7

U.S. act that protected and encouraged the growth of the union movement; established workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively with employers.

Answer 7

National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

Question 8

U.S. act that prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of age.

Answer 8

Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)

Question 9

U.S. act that established uniform minimum standards to ensure that employee benefit and pension plans are set up and maintained in a fair and financially sound manner.

Answer 9

Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

Question 10

Primary job duties that a qualified individual must be able to perform, either with or without accommodation.

Answer 10

Essential functions

Question 11

Physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one’s major life activities.

Answer 11

Disability

Question 12

U.S act that establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, youth employment, and record-keeping standards affecting full- and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.

Answer 12

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Question 13

U.S. act that prevents private employers from requiring applicants or employees to take a polygraph test for preemployment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exceptions.

Answer 13

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Question 14

Individuals who exchange work for wages or salary; in the U.S., workers who are covered by Fair Labor Standards Act regulations as determined by the IRS.

Answer 14

Employees

Question 15

Sexual, romantic, or emotional/spiritual attraction that one feels for persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or both sexes and more than one gender.

Answer 15

Sexual orientation

Question 16

U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.

Answer 16

Faragher v. City of Boca Raton

Question 17

Refers to the country (including those that no longer exist) of one’s birth or of one’s ancestors’ birth.

Answer 17

National origin

Question 18

Amendements to U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act covering the definition of individuals regarded as having a disability, mitigating measures, and other rules to guide the analysis of what constitutes a disability.

Answer 18

ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA)

Question 19

Type of discrimination that results when a policy that appears to be neutral has a discriminatory effect, also known as disparate impact.

Answer 19

Adverse impact

Question 20

U.S. act that prohibits discrimination against a qualified individual with a disability because of his/her disability.

Answer 20

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Question 21

Factor (such as religion, gender, national origin, etc.) that is reasonably necessary, in the normal operations of an organization, to carry out a particular job function.

Answer 21

Bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)

Question 22

U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.

Answer 22

Burlington Industries, Inc. v Ellerth

Question 23

Type of liability insurance covering an organization against claims by employees, former employees, and employment candidates alleging that their legal rights in the employment relationship have been violated.

Answer 23

Employment practices liability insurance (EPLI)

Question 24

U.S. act that prohibits discrimination against job applicants on the basis of national origin or citizenship and establishes penalties for hiring undocumented workers.

Answer 24

Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)

Question 25

U.S. Act that protects privacy of background information and ensures that information supplied is accurate.

Answer 25

Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

Question 26

U.S. act that frees employers who use third parties to conduct workplace investigations from the consent and disclosure requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in certain cases.

Answer 26

Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions act (FACT Act)

Question 27

People who are covered under a particular federal or state anti discrimination law.

Answer 27

Protected class

Question 28

Type of discrimination that occurs when an applicant or employee is treated differently because of his or her membership in a protected class.

Answer 28

Disparate treatment