Employment Basics
This document outlines job duties, qualifications, and essential functions.
What is a job description?
This federal law provides eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
This document formally outlines expectations and areas needing improvement for an employee.
What is a performance evaluation?
This policy outlines acceptable and unacceptable behavior in the workplace.
What is a code of conduct?
This department is responsible for hiring, onboarding, and employee relations.
What is Human Resources?
This federal law requires employers to verify an employee’s identity and work authorization.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?
This process involves communication between employer and employee to find a reasonable accommodation.
What is the interactive process?
This type of discipline typically follows a step-by-step process (verbal, written, etc.).
What is progressive discipline?
This policy addresses unwanted behavior based on protected characteristics.
What is the Workplace Harassment, Discrimination & Retaliation Policy?
This holiday is celebrated to recognize administrative professionals’ contributions.
What is Administrative Professionals Day?
This form is completed by new hires to verify eligibility to work in the U.S.
What is the I-9 form?
This law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and may require accommodations.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
This action involves documenting concerns about an employee’s behavior or performance.
What is documentation?
This policy governs when employees may adjust their work hours with approval.
What is a flex time policy?
This term refers to the process of welcoming and integrating a new employee.
What is onboarding?
This type of employee is paid based on hours worked and typically eligible for overtime.
What is a non-exempt employee?
This type of leave may be provided for an employee’s own serious health condition or to care for a family member.
What is medical leave?
This plan outlines specific goals and timelines for improving performance.
What is a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)?
This policy typically covers use of computers, email, and internet at work.
What is the IT Security Policy?
This acronym refers to Equal Employment Opportunity.
What is EEO?
This doctrine means either the employer or employee can end employment at any time, with or without cause (with some exceptions).
What is at-will employment?
This term refers to a modification or adjustment that enables an employee to perform essential job functions.
What is a reasonable accommodation?
True or False:
Skelly Hearing is derived from the Merit Systems "Standardized Key Employee Listening & Liability Yardstick"
FALSE!
A Skelly hearing comes from a court case called Skelly v. State Personnel Board.
In that case, the California Supreme Court ruled that public employees who have job protections (like civil service employees) must be given basic due process before being disciplined—especially before being terminated.
So a “Skelly hearing” is essentially a pre-disciplinary meeting where the employee gets:
It’s named after the employee in the case (Mr. Skelly). The decision set the standard for how public employers in California must handle discipline to ensure fairness.
This document employees often acknowledge upon hire to confirm understanding of policies.
What is the personnel policies acknowledgment?
This concept refers to treating employees fairly and consistently across situations.
What is equity (or fairness/consistency)?