WGU D351 Legal questions with accurate answers
Adverse employment action Ans✓✓✓ Any action such as firings,
demotions, schedule reductions, or changes that would harm the
individual employee
Affirmative action Ans✓✓✓ A series of policies, programs, and
initiatives that have been instituted by various entities within both
government and the private sector that are designed to prefer hiring of
individuals from protected groups in certain circumstances in an attempt
to mitigate past discrimination
Arbitrator Ans✓✓✓ a neutral third party who resolves a conflict by
making a binding decision
Authority Ans✓✓✓ The right to give orders, enforce obedience, make
decisions, and commit resources toward completing organizational goals
Constructive discharge Ans✓✓✓ when an employee is put under such
extreme pressure by management that continued employment becomes
intolerable and, as a result, the employee quits, or resigns from the
organization
Disparate impact Ans✓✓✓ when an officially neutral employment
practice disproportionately excludes the members of a protected group;
it is generally considered to be unintentional, but intent is irrelevant
, Disparate treatment Ans✓✓✓ When individuals in similar situations are
intentionally treated differently and the different treatment is based on
an individual's membership in a protected class
Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM) Ans✓✓✓ the process of
observing ongoing employee actions using computers or other
nonhuman methods
employment at will Ans✓✓✓ concept allowing the company or the
worker to break the work relationship at any point in time, with or
without any particular reason, as long as in doing so, no law is violated
Ethics Ans✓✓✓ The application of a set of values and principles in
order to make the right, or good, choice
Four-Fifths Rule Ans✓✓✓ a test used by various federal courts, the
Department of Labor, and the EEOC to determine whether disparate
impact exists in an employment test
Glass ceiling Ans✓✓✓ An invisible barrier to advancement in business
to women as well as minority employees
Grievance Ans✓✓✓ a formal complaint concerning pay, working
conditions, or violation of some other factor in a collective bargaining
agreement
Adverse employment action Ans✓✓✓ Any action such as firings,
demotions, schedule reductions, or changes that would harm the
individual employee
Affirmative action Ans✓✓✓ A series of policies, programs, and
initiatives that have been instituted by various entities within both
government and the private sector that are designed to prefer hiring of
individuals from protected groups in certain circumstances in an attempt
to mitigate past discrimination
Arbitrator Ans✓✓✓ a neutral third party who resolves a conflict by
making a binding decision
Authority Ans✓✓✓ The right to give orders, enforce obedience, make
decisions, and commit resources toward completing organizational goals
Constructive discharge Ans✓✓✓ when an employee is put under such
extreme pressure by management that continued employment becomes
intolerable and, as a result, the employee quits, or resigns from the
organization
Disparate impact Ans✓✓✓ when an officially neutral employment
practice disproportionately excludes the members of a protected group;
it is generally considered to be unintentional, but intent is irrelevant
, Disparate treatment Ans✓✓✓ When individuals in similar situations are
intentionally treated differently and the different treatment is based on
an individual's membership in a protected class
Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM) Ans✓✓✓ the process of
observing ongoing employee actions using computers or other
nonhuman methods
employment at will Ans✓✓✓ concept allowing the company or the
worker to break the work relationship at any point in time, with or
without any particular reason, as long as in doing so, no law is violated
Ethics Ans✓✓✓ The application of a set of values and principles in
order to make the right, or good, choice
Four-Fifths Rule Ans✓✓✓ a test used by various federal courts, the
Department of Labor, and the EEOC to determine whether disparate
impact exists in an employment test
Glass ceiling Ans✓✓✓ An invisible barrier to advancement in business
to women as well as minority employees
Grievance Ans✓✓✓ a formal complaint concerning pay, working
conditions, or violation of some other factor in a collective bargaining
agreement
