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100
A requisition is created with a job description that outlines the requirements of the job.
What is starting the hiring process?
100
California is $10.50 but San Francisco is even higher at $13.00 per hour. Federal is low at $7.25
What is minimum wage?
100
Requires covered employers to provide time off for personal illness, to attend to the illness of a family member and in connection with the birth or adoption of a child.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act or FMLA?
100
Bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
What is sexual harassment?
100
Final pay must be given on the last day of employment.
What is a voluntary termination or resignation?
200
Either the employer or the employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without reason, and with or without notice.
What is "at-will" employment?
200
Pay for over 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week in California
What is overtime pay?
200
A day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work, are suspended or reduced, intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tradition of cultural or religious significance.
What are holidays?
200
A situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation or decision-making of that individual or organization.
What is a conflict of interest?
200
A document prepared and reviewed with an employee to improve performance over a period of time.
What is a PIP or performance improvement plan?
300
Responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against an applicant or employee.
What is Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or EEOC?
300
Establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
300
A form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment
What is workers compensation?
300
Desks, computers, PDAs, company issued phones, company issued vehicles, and all other items provided by the Company to an employee.
What is company property?
300
A work arrangement in which employees do not commute or travel (e.g. by bus or car) to a central place of work, such as an office building, warehouse or store.
What is telecommuting?
400
A work requirement reasonably necessary to the normal performance of a job, such as being a certain age or gender, ability to lift a certain amount of weight.
What is a bona fide occupational qualification or BFOQ?
400
Two 10 minute breaks and at least 30-minute lunch break in 8 hours.
What are mandatory breaks for non-exempt employees?
400
A fixed amount for a covered service, paid by a patient before a patient receives service from a physician, defined in an insurance policy and paid by an insured person each time a medical service is accessed.
What is a co-payment?
400
Not allowed in any enclosed area at any company facility and must be 25 feet away from an entrance to a building or as required by local ordinance.
What is smoking?
400
An ongoing process and shared responsibility between managers and employees reporting to them which includes an exchange of feedback and clarification on performance standards, expectations, and results.
What is a Performance Review? (or ongoing feedback)
500
Act that prohibits discrimination against any qualified individual with a mental or physical disability that impairs or substantially limits one or more "major life activities."
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA?
500
Someone who is licensed or certified by the State of California and is primarily engaged in the practice of one of the following recognized professions: law, medicine, dentistry, optometry, architecture, engineering, teaching, or accounting, or who is primarily engaged in an occupation commonly recognized as a learned or artistic profession.
What is a professional exemption?
500
Drugs that are required to have the same active ingredient, strength, dosage form, and route of administration as the brand name product.
What are generic drugs or prescriptions?
500
Engaging in threatening behavior or acts of violence against employees, visitors, guests, or other individuals on company property or at company events.
What is workplace violence?
500
A published guideline for conduct, policies, and practices at a company.
What is an Employee Handbook?