This law, passed in 1967, prohibits employers, employment agencies, and labor unions from discriminating on the basis of age in their employment practices.
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)?
100
The minimum hourly wage for a full-time student working in retail or service establishments or on farms is currently set at this rate.
What is $6.17 (85% of $7.25, rounded in favor of the employee)?
100
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 is also known by this name.
What is the Federal Wage and Hour Law?
100
This is one-half of the regular hourly rate.
What is the Overtime premium?
100
This would be the gross pay for an hourly employee who works 44 hours and has a standard pay rate of $13.76 per hour.
What is $632.96?
$13.76 x 50% = 6.88
44 x 13.76 = 605.44 plus
4 x 6.88 = 27.52
Total 632.96
200
This law, passed in 1996, mandates that all states must establish new-hire reporting programs.
What is the Federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)?
200
This is a provision set by a local ordinance that requires employers in certain communities that do business with the government to pay an hourly rate other than the Federal Minimum wage.
What is "A Living Wage?"
200
These are the two bases of coverage under which the FLSA can be applied.
What are Enterprise coverage and Individual Employee coverage?
200
This is a status of employee that is not subject to some or all of the FLSA requirements.
What is an Exempt employee (or White-Collar Worker)?
200
This is the regular hourly rate for a nonexempt 40 hour a week employee who earns a semi-monthly pay of $1,300.
What is $15.00 per hour?
1,300 x 24 = 31,200
31,200 / 52 = 600
600 / 40 = 15
300
Covering employee pension and welfare plans established or maintained by any employer or employer organization representing employees engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce, this law was passed in 1974.
What is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)?
300
When using time clocks to compute hours worked, the clocks can be programmed to round the starting and stopping times in one of these predetermined increments.
What is 5 minutes, 6 minutes, or 10 minutes? Or, what is 1/12th, 1/10th or 1/4.
300
This payment in not agreed upon, announced or promised before payment and is not included in a employee's regular rate of pay.
What is a Discretionary bonus?
300
The highest-paid 10% of an employer's workforce can be exempted from this provision.
What is the Family & Medical Leave Act?
300
This would be the gross pay for salaried nonexempt employee who works 42 hours in a week when they usually get paid $735 for a 35 hour week.
What is $798?
735 / 35 = 21
21 x 1.5 = 31.50
31.50 x 2 = 63
735 + 63 = 798
400
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), passed in 1993, requires employers that have 50 or more employees in a 75 mile radius, for at least 20 weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, to grant up to this many weeks of unpaid leave for qualifying family or medical emergencies.
What is 12 weeks?
400
Newly hired employees under the age of 20 can be paid this lower ""opportunity wage" during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment.
What is $4.25 per hour?
400
This type of relationship exists when an employer has the right to control both what work will be done and how it will be done.
What is a Common-law relationship?
400
This is a common record used in preparing employee W-2 forms.
What is the Employee's earning record?
400
This is the additional amount an employer of a tipped employee would need to pay the employee for a standard 40 hour week when the employee receives $190 in tips for the week.
What is $14.80?
Standard minimum wage is 7.25 x 40 = $290.00
Regular tipped employee wage is 2.13 x 40 = 85.20
Add in $190.00 in tips to reach 275.20 meaning an additional $14.80 would need to be paid to the employee.
500
Passed in 1986, this law bars employers from hiring and retaining aliens unauthorized to work in the United States.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)?
500
This is the hourly rate that an employer must pay to a tipped employee for overtime hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a week.
What is $5.76 per hour?
500
These workers qualify as independent contractors under common law, but are taxed as employees for social security purposes.
What are Statutory Employees?
500
These are employee activities that are indispensable to the performance of productive work and those that are an integral part of such activities.
What are Principal Activities?
500
This would be the total gross pay for a piecework employee producing 1251 units in 43 hours at a rate of 55 cents per unit.
What is $712.05?
1,251 x .55 = 688.05
688.05 / 43 = 16/hour
16 x .5 = 8 x 3 = 24
688.05 + 24 = 712.05