WGU C233 Employment Law Vocabulary (Latest 2024) STUDY GUIDE

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1. American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Answer: Employers with 15 or more employeesare prohibited from discriminating against people with disabilities. In general, the employment provisions of the ... ADA require: - equal opportunity in selecting, testing, and hiring qualified applicants with disabilities - job accomodation for applicants and workers with disabilities when such accomodations would not impose "undue hardship" - equal opportunity in promotion and benefits 2. Affirmative action Answer: Making an extra effort to hire and promote those in protectedgroups, particularly when those groups are underrepresented 3. Affirmative action plan Answer: Plan that analyzes a workforce to determine whetherprotected classes are underutilized in different job groups, and describes how anorganization will address any underutilization that exists 4. Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) Answer: Act prohibiting arbitrary agediscrimination, specifically protecting individuals over the age of 40 5. Agency theory Answer: Person (for example, a manager) is expected to act on behalf ofa principal (for example, the owner of the company) 6. Animus Answer: Mind set or intention 7. Arbitration Answer: A procedure for resolving collective bargaining impasses by whichan arbitrator (third party) chooses a solution to the dispute 8. Bargaining unit Answer: A group of employees performing jobs in an industry with sufficient "community of interests" to constitute a unit to be represented in collectivebargaining 9. BFOQ (Bonafide Occupational Qualifications) Answer: Job requirements that an employee be a particular religion, sex, or national origin that is reasonably necessaryto business operations. For instance, it is assumed that an opening for a Baptist minister at a local Baptist church would be filled by a minister who is actually a person who celebrates the Baptist religion and not, say, the Episcopal religion [Show More]

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