WORKERS Flashcards
SKILL
A employment situation in which two employers have actual or potential legal rights and duties with respect to the same employee or group of employees.
COEMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
A business entity that coemploys the employees of its clients and typically assumes responsibility for all human resource management functions.
PEO - PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYER ORGANIZATION
An individual who provides services to another individual or organization according to terms defined in a written contract or within a verbal agreement.
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
CLASSIFIED BY
NO INCOMMME/SS/MEDIARE TAX
1099
NO EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
PAID ACCORDING TO TERMS
NOT PROTECTED ANTI DISCRIMINATION
CAN BE LET GO AT ANYTIME
CLIENT HAS RIGHT TO CONTROL
SETS OWN HOURS
PROVIODES OWN EQUIPMENT
A job situation in which an individual does not have an explicit or implicit contract for long-term employment.
CONTINGENT WORKER
A temporary work visa granted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USGIS) for people who work in specialty occupations—jobs that require a four-year bachelor’s degree in a specific field, or equivalent experience.
H-1B
6 YEARS
NEW YORK CITY HAS HGIHEST NUMBER H-1B
A long-term business arrangement in which a company contracts for services with an outside organization that has expertise in providing a specific function.
OUTSOURCING
A form of outsourcing in which services are provided by an organization whose employees are in a foreign country.
OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING
An auditing standard issued by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). It demonstrates that an outsourcing firm has effective internal controls in accordance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
SSAE - NUMBER 16
An effort by an employee to attract attention to a negligent, illegal, unethical, abusive, or dangerous act by a company that threatens the public interest.
WHISTLE-BLOWING
Efforts directed toward the efficient design, manufacture, operation, and disposal of IT-related products, including personal computers, laptops, servers, printers, and printer supplies.
GREEN COMPUTING
A system that enables purchasers to evaluate, compare, and select electronic products based on a total of 51 environmental criteria.
EPEAT - ELECTRONIC PRODUCT ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT TOOL
POTENTIAL HARMFUL MATERIALS USED IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES
A provision of the False Claims Act that allows a private citizen to file a suit in the name of the U.S. government, charging fraud by government contractors and other entities who receive or use government funds. See also False Claim Act.
QUI-TAM
A work environment in which temporary positions are common and organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements.
GIG ECONOMY
A law enacted during the U.S. Civil War to combat fraud by companies that sold supplies to the Union Army; also known as the Lincoln Law.
FALSE CLAIMS ACT
inclination for or against some people/ideas/things that result in treating them unfairly
BIAS
HOW WE KNOW THE THINGS WE KNOW
EPISTEMOLOGY
a computing society founded in New York in 1947, is “dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of information technology, serving both professional and public interests by fostering the open interchange of information and by promoting the highest professional and ethical standards.”
ACM - ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY
COMBINATION PRACTICAL SKILLS AND ACADEMIC STUDY
CORE BODY OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE, AUTHORITY, CLIENTS, JUDGMENTS, UNIQUE PRIVILEDGES, REGULATED WITH CODE OF ETHICS, OWN CULTURE
PROFESSION
SAFER MORE SECURE AMERICA RESILENT AGINST TERRORISM AND POTENTIAL THREATS IS GOAL
DHS - DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
PROFESSIONAL POSSES A PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES IN OPINION OF CERTIFYING ORGANIZATION
CERTIFICATION
WHAT ARE THE TWO MAJOR SOCIETIES FOR SOFTWARE ETHICS
ACM - ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER MACHINERY
IEEE - INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELCETRONIC ENGINEERS
WHAT ORGANIZATION COMBINED THE ACM AND IEEE
SECEPP - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CODE OF ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
