HR Laws
Prohibits discrimination based on race, gender, religion, and national origin.
What is Title VII?
A law that gives employees and their families the option to continue group health insurance coverage for a limited time after job loss.
What is COBRA?
An employer-established account that allows employees to set aside pre-tax earnings to pay for eligible healthcare or dependent care expenses within the plan year. Use it or lose it.
What is an FSA?
This theory proposes that human motivation is based on a five-levels of needs — beginning with physiological needs and progressing through safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This section of a job description outlines the specific tasks, duties, and responsibilities required of an employee.
What are essential job functions?
Enacted in 2008 to prevent discrimination based on genetic information.
What is Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)?
A federal law that protects sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without consent and ensures employees can maintain health coverage when changing jobs.
What is HIPAA?
A type of health insurance plan that offers flexibility by allowing members to see any healthcare provider but provides lower costs when using doctors and hospitals within the plan’s preferred network.
What is a PPO?
This theory, developed by J. Stacy Adams, states that employees are motivated by fairness and compare their input-to-outcome ratios with those of others to determine whether they are being treated fairly at work.
What is Equity Theory?
This part of a job description lists the education, experience, and skills required to perform the job successfully
What are job qualifications?
Allows the employee up to a 12-week leave of absence to care for a serious medical condition of themselves or a family member or the adoption of a child. Military issues may also be covered.
What is FMLA?
This is a type of training system that is accessed via a computer.
What is an LMS?
A tax-advantaged savings account that allows individuals with high-deductible health plans to set aside pre-tax money to pay for qualified medical expenses.
What is an HSA?
This psychologist’s Two-Factor Theory suggests that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction arise from two separate sets of factors — motivators like achievement and recognition, and hygiene factors like salary and work conditions.
Who is Fredrick Hertzberg?
This HR skill involves listening, empathy, and tact when helping employees navigate conflicts or workplace challenges.
What is interpersonal communication?
Enacted in 1970, it governs how employers can use third-party consumer reports, including credit checks and criminal background reports.
What is Fair Credit Report Act (FCRA)?
This system stores HR information such as employee information, payroll, benefit selections and other items depending on its set-up.
What is an HRIS?
A type of health insurance that combines features of HMO and PPO plans, allowing members to choose in-network care for lower costs or go out-of-network at a higher expense with a referral from their primary care physician.
What is a POS plan?
This theory explains that motivation depends on an individual’s belief that effort will lead to good performance, performance will lead to rewards, and those rewards will be valuable to them.
What is Vroom's Expectancy Theory?
This HR technology uses artificial intelligence to screen and shortlist applicants based on job criteria.
What is an applicant tracking system (ATS)?
Passed in 1986 requires all US employees to verify that their employees are legally authorized to work in the US.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)?
Federal agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination.
Who is the EEOC?
A federal law enacted in 2010 designed to expand access to affordable health insurance, protect patients from discriminatory practices, and improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare in the United States.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This theory proposes that managers’ assumptions about employees—whether they believe people are inherently lazy or self-motivated—directly influence management style and organizational culture.
What is McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y?
This type of performance evaluation gathers feedback from supervisors, peers, subordinates, and sometimes clients.
What is a 360-feedback review?