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Regulation & Title VII
Race, Color & Nation of Origin Discrimination
Sexual, Orientation, Age, & Religious Discrimination
Disability, Right to privacy, Labor law, benefits and protection
Wild Card
100
The three main tests courts use to classify employees and independent contracts
What is Common-law agency test, IRS 20-factor analysis, and economic realities test
100
makes it illegal to continue to employ an alien in the U.S. knowing that he/she has become an unauthorized alien.
What is The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
100
The sexual harassment term that means "in exchange for"
What is Quid Pro Quo
100
redesign of a job in order to eliminate non-essential functions
What is reasonable accommodation?
100
AKA the Wagner Act
What is The National Labor Relations Act?
200
applies to all employers engaged in commerce with 15 or more employees for each working day for 20 or more weeks in the current or preceding year
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
200
This includes an exemption which allows employers to test current employees if necessary to investigate a workplace theft or incident
What is The Federal Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988
200
defines religion as including all aspects of sincerely held belief and practice regarding what is moral and ethical.
What is Title VII
200
applies to all private employers with 15 or more employees.
What is the ADA
200
nonsupervisory or nonmanagerial employees, including part-time workers are covered under which act?
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
300
applies to all employers with 15 or more workers, including state and local
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act
300
Created to investigate the barriers to female and minority advancement in the workplace
What is The "Glass Ceiling Commission" created in 1991 by the Civil Rights act
300
Affinity orientation discrimination is not prohibited under this
What is Title VII?
300
the term used in the ADA, refers to only those tasks that are fundamental to the performance of a job, and are not marginal or unnecessary
What is "essential functions of the job"?
300
made stealing union funds a federal crime; created a bill of rights for union members; provided specific procedures for union elections
What is the Landrum-Griffin Act?
400
prohibits discrimination relating to employment, education, and public accommodations
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1964
400
This may lead to an abusive environment for those whose primary language is not English.
What is An English-only policy in the workplace
400
A burden imposed on an employer by accommodating an employee’s religious conflict, which is too onerous for the employer to bear
What is undue hardship?
400
gives the federal government the power to monitor Internet usage by any American citizen if the information sought is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation; expanded the government's authority to intercept wire, oral and electronic communications relating to terrorism; allows nationwide seizure of voice mail messages pursuant to warrants
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
400
The agency established to administer federal sector labor law; the counterpart to the NLRB; was established by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
What is The Federal Labor Relations Authority
500
Court decisions handed down over the last several hundred years.
What is Common Law
500
This allows the statute of limitations to reset each time a paycheck is issued based on pay discrimination.
What is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
500
When assessing the hostility of an environment in a sexual harassment claim, a court must look to...
What is the totality of the circumstances?
500
Sector of the workplace where employees have limited rights to privacy in the workplace
What is the private sector?
500
Define the amount of the employee contribution without a specific amount to be recovered at retirement.
What are Defined contribution plans?