Harassment
The federal agency that investigates harassment complaints.
What is the EEOC?
An active effort to improve employment or educational opportunities for members of protected groups.
What is affirmative action?
This constitutional amendment protects your right against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This act passed in 1993 entitles eligible employees to a minimum of 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to deal with family and dire personal matters.
What is the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
Opponents of genetic screening for employment purposes often refer back to this amendment to the Constitution, which provides equal protection to all people and was added to the Constitution following the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The most prevalent type of harassment complaint filed (40%).
What is racial harassment?
Government Regulation, Court Order, Consent Decree, and Desire to be a Good Citizen
What are reasons for affirmative action plans?
This act requires employers with federal contracts over of $100K or more to drug test applicants (along with other requirements).
What is the Drug-Free Workplace Act?
These types of tests, which often include questions about religion and sexual preference, typically breach legal and ethical lines.
What are psychological tests?
By using this, employers can surveil employees using electronic means like email, Internet, and telephone monitoring and video cameras to catch potentially harmful or illegal behaviors by employees.
What is electronic surveillance?
A single event of this type is severe enough to constitute sexual harassment.
What is quid pro quo?
A common affirmative action strategy to target underrepresented groups for more extensive recruitment.
What is intentional recruitment of minority applicants?
This device removes the organization's right to conduct locker searches.
What are locks?
Harassment based on this is probably not illegal because this is not a federally protected class.
What is sexual orientation?
A more fair method to evaluate this may involve managers monitoring employee emails, Internet usage, and telephone conversations to track performance based on behaviors.
What is employee performance?
These employees are the sole (or minority) representative of their gender.
What are gender pioneers or gender isolates?
Employees are perceived by coworkers as less competent and have a tendency to devalue their own performance.
What are unintended consequences of Affirmative Action Plans?
Public agencies who wish to drug test current employees must have these two factors.
What are reasonable suspicion and just cause?
The negative effects of affirmative action plans can be reduced when using this term instead of "affirmative action".
What is "diversity initiative"?
Employers are prohibited from firing, refusing to hire, or otherwise discriminate against workers on the basis of genetic information due to this act signed on May 21, 2008.
What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
Organizations are legally required to prevent sexual harassment by doing these three things.
What are 1) have a well-conceived policy, 2) communicate the policy, and 3) enforce the policy?
Whether the remedy is designed to help minorities "unnecessarily trammel" the rights of nonminorities.
What is the 4th criterion used by courts to determine the legality of an affirmative action program?
Employees do not have this three-word phrase, which allows organizations to conduct video surveillance.
What is "expectation of privacy"?
The three criteria employees must meet to be eligible for family medical leave covered under the FMLA.
What is 1) work for a covered employer; 2) have worked for the organization for at least a year; and 3) have worked at least 1,250 hours over the last 12 months?
Genetic screening can test for this, which can put employees with a genetic predisposition to certain disorders at risk when exposed to triggering environments or chemicals while at work.
What are genetic disorders?