3 Flashcards

(29 cards)

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Challenges to legal compliance

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Dynamic legal landscape

Complex laws

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Why must managers understand the legal environment?

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Right thing
Limitations of HR and legal departments
Limiting potential liability

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Fair employment

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Decisions are not affected by illegal discrimination

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Equal pay act

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Same pay for man and woman

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Title VII

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Employment decisions are not based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

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Protected class

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Group of people who suffered discrimination in the past and who are given special protection by the judicial system

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Disparate treatment

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Individuals are treated differently because of their membership in a protected class

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Disparate impact

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The equal application of employment standard has an unequal effect on one or more protected classes

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Prima facie

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The responsibility of the plaintiffs to show reasonable evidence that discrimination has occurred

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4/5 rule

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HR practice is discriminatory and has an adverse impact

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Bona fide occupational qualification

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A characteristic that must be present in all employees for a particular job

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Title VII and pregnancy

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Requires employers to employee was pregnant in the same way as any other employee who has a medical condition

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Quid pro quo sexual harassment

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Sexual activities required in return for getting her keeping a job or job related benefit

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Hostile work environment sexual harassment

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The behavior of anyone in the work setting is sexual immature and is perceived by unemployment as offensive and undesirable

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Civil rights act of 1991

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And then meant to title VII

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Punitive damages

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Find awarded to plaintiffs in order to punish the defendant

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Compensatory damages

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Finds a word into a plaintiff to compensate for the financial or psychological harm the plaintiff has suffered

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Quotas

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Employer adjustments of the hiring decisions to ensure that a certain number of people from a certain protected class are hired

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executive order

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A policy with which all federal agencies and organizations doing business with the federal government must comply

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Age discrimination in employment act

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Prohibits discrimination against people who are 40 or older

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American with disabilities act

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For disappointment discrimination against people with disabilities were able to perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation

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Individuals with disabilities

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Persons who have a physical or mental impairment substantially affects one or more major life activities

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Essential functions

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Job duties that each person in a certain position must do able to do to be an effective employee

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Reasonable accommodation

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And action taken to accommodate the known disabilities of applicants employees so that disabled persons enjoy equal employment opportunity

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Equal employment opportunity commission
Enforce EEO laws
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Conciliation
An attempt to reach you negotiated settlement between the employer and employee application in case
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Office of federal contract compliance programs
The federal agency responsible for more monitoring and of course in the lost and executive orders that apply to the federal government and his contractors
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Reverse discrimination
Discrimination against me not protected class member resulting from attempts to recruit and hire members are protected classes
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