Law

Question 1

Under federal law, how many employees must a business have on payroll and how often must they work to be subject to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Answer 1

15 or more employees on each working day of at least 20 hours per week

Question 2

What agency enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Answer 2

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Question 3

EEOC?

Answer 3

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Question 4

Briefly describe Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 4

Forbids discrimination against any worker or job applicant based on citizenship status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, or veteran status.

Question 5

Name the portion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 related to discrimination in the workplace.

Answer 5

Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964

Question 6

Name the three exceptions to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Answer 6

1. Different wages, terms, or privileges can be given based on a bona-fide merit system, seniority or other system based on work quality.
2. Religion, sex, or national origin can be taken into account if these factors are legitimate (does not extend to race!)
3. employment decision based on tests that are not designed to discriminate.

Question 7

Name the amendment that requires pregnant women to be treated equally on the basis of her ability or inability to work.

Answer 7

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendment

Question 8

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendment was amended to what previous Act?

Answer 8

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Question 9

When was the Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendment passed as an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Answer 9

1978

Question 10

When was the Age Discrimination in Employment Act passed?

Answer 10

1967

Question 11

What enforcement agency oversees the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?

Answer 11

EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunities Commission)

Question 12

Official notice of what policies must be posted in the workplace?

Answer 12

1. Age Discrimination in Employment (ADEA)

2. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 13

Briefly describe Section 1981.

Answer 13

Provides that everyone in the US (regardless of race, color, national origin, citizenship, and ethnicity) has the same right ‘to make and enforce contracts to sue, be parties, give evidence, and full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings’

Question 14

Briefly describe the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)?

Answer 14

prohibits employers from discriminating against workers or applicants who are 40 years or older.

Question 15

What act prohibits discrimination against individuals 40 years old or older?

Answer 15

ADEA, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

Question 16

What act prohibits discrimination broadly against all ages?

Answer 16

Age Discrimination Act of 1975

Question 17

What act prohibits discrimination from the right to make and enforce contracts?

Answer 17

Section 1981 - Reconstruction-Era Civil Rights Act of 1866, amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1991

Question 18

What act prohibits discrimination against any qualified individuals with a disability?

Answer 18

ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Question 19

When the Americans with Disabilities Act passed?

Answer 19

1990

Question 20

What act prohibits discrimination against any worker or job applicant on the basis of citizenship status, disability, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, or veteran status?

Answer 20

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 21

What two employment Acts both taking effect when there is the presence of more than 15 employees?

Answer 21

1. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

2. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Question 22

According to the ADA describe a disability?

Answer 22

1. has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.
2. has a record of such impairment (e.g. emotional illness, heart disease, cancer)
3. is judged as having such an impairment.

Question 23

What does the ADA define as major life activities?

Answer 23

1. caring for oneself
2. performing manual tasks,
3. walking
4. seeing
5. hearing
6. speaking
7. breathing
8. learning
9. working

Question 24

What systems can be affected for any physiological disorder according to the ADA?

Answer 24

1. neurological
2. musculoskeletal
3. special sense organs
4. respiratory (including speech)
5. cardiovascular
6. reproductive
7. digestive
8. genitourinary
9. hemic and lymphatic
10. skin and endocrine

Question 25

What is the ADA definition of substantially limited?

Answer 25

Unable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the general population can perform or that compared to the general population there is significant restriction to the condition, manner or duration that a major life activity can be performed.

Question 26

What other three factors are considered when determining if an individual is substantially limited in a major life activity?

Answer 26

1. nature and severity of the impairment
2. duration or expected duration
3. actual or expected permanent or long term impact