Workplace
U.S. act that established the first national policy for workplace safety and health and continues to deliver standards that employers must meet to guarantee the health and safety of their employees.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act
Group of workers who coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers; also called labor union.
What is a Trade union
Used to group jobs that have approximately the same relative internal or external worth and are paid at the same rate or within the same pay range.
What are Pay grades
Required for nonexempt workers under U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act at 1.5 times the regular rate of pay for hours over 40 in a workweek.
What is Overtime pay
Work stoppages at union contract operations that have not been sanctioned by the union.
What is a Wildcat strike
Method by which an organization relocates its processes or production to an international location through subsidiaries or third-party affiliates.
What is Offshoring
Act of replacing employees leaving an organization; attrition or loss of employees.
What is Turnover
Set the upper and lower bounds of possible compensation for individuals whose jobs fall within a pay grade.
What are Pay ranges
2010 U.S. law that requires virtually all citizens and legal residents to have minimum health coverage and requires employers with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health coverage that meets minimum benefit specifications or pay a penalty.
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
Systematic approach to anticipate human capital needs and data HR professionals can use to ensure that appropriate knowledge, skills, or abilities will be available when needed to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
What is Workforce analysis
U.S. act that amended the Age Discrimination in Employment Act to include all employee benefits; also provided standards that an employee’s waiver of the right to sue for age discrimination must meet in order to be upheld by a court.
What is the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
Annualized formula that tracks number of separations and total number of workforce employees per month.
What is Turnover rate
Process of measuring and evaluating an employee’s adherence to performance standards and providing feedback to the employee.
What is Performance appraisal
1971 U.S. case that stated that an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with preschool-aged children while hiring men with such children.
What is Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation
All activities needed to ensure that workforce size and competencies meet the organization’s strategic needs.
What is Workforce management
Relocation of business processes or production to a lower-cost location inside the same country as the business.
What is Onshoring
Violation of employee rights; act prohibited under labor relations statutes.
What is Unfair labor practice (ULP)
One-time payment made to an employee; also called a lump-sum increase (LSI).
What is Performance bonus
U.S. act that defines what is included as hours worked and is therefore compensable and a factor in calculating overtime.
What is the Portal-to-Portal Act
Activities needed to ensure that workforce size and competencies meet current and future organizational and individual needs.
What is Workforce planning
Process by which an organization contracts with third-party vendors to provide selected services/activities instead of hiring new employees.
What is Outsourcing
Reporting of an organization’s violations of policies and processes by employees.
What is Whistleblowing
Tools, activities, and processes that an organization uses to manage, maintain, and/or improve the job performance of employees.
What is Performance management
U.S. act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
What is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Groups that represent employees, generally on a local or organizational level, for the primary purpose of receiving from employers and conveying to employees information about the workforce and the health of the enterprise.
What are Works councils