WGU C233 EMPLOYMENT LAW EXAM TEST 2026/2027
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Civil Law - ✔✔Laws that deal with the rights of people rather than with crimes.
✔✔Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔Enacted in 1964, it prohibits race discrimination in
employment.
✔✔Clayton Act - ✔✔Enacted in 1914, it prohibits the elimination of unions.
✔✔Closed Union Shop - ✔✔An illegal requirement that an employee be a union
member.
✔✔Collective Bargaining - ✔✔The negotiation process between unions and employers.
✔✔Color - ✔✔Skin pigmentation characteristic of race, especially other than White.
✔✔Common Law - ✔✔Principles developed over centuries as a result of legal decisions
made by judges in individual cases.
✔✔Common Law Agency - ✔✔A test that classifies a worker as an employee if the
employer maintains the right to control the method of work performed.
✔✔Common Law Criminal Conspiracy - ✔✔A combination of two or more individuals
planning to accomplish an unlawful purpose.
✔✔Community of Interests - ✔✔A community of people who align themselves with a
common interest.
✔✔Comparable Worth Theory - ✔✔The notion that men and women should receive
equal pay when they perform work that requires comparable skills and responsibilities.
✔✔Comparative Evidence - ✔✔Evidence of discrimination that is found by comparing
two similarly situated employees who were treated differently because of a class
characteristic.
✔✔Compensatory Damages - ✔✔Monetary compensation necessary to replace a
plaintiff's losses.
✔✔Compensatory Time - ✔✔An option for public employers to allow time off for
employees instead of payment.
✔✔Complaint - ✔✔A formal allegation against a party.
,✔✔Compliance Requirement - ✔✔A mandate that all employers comply with all safety
and health requirements issued by the Department of Labor.
✔✔Concerted Activity - ✔✔Any effort by employees to join together to seek
improvement in working conditions.
✔✔Conciliation - ✔✔Process where a third party acts as an intermediary between the
parties to a labor dispute, helping them to reach a settlement.
✔✔Conglomerate - ✔✔A highly diversified firm that has multiple businesses with no
relationships.
✔✔Consent Decree - ✔✔An agreement between two parties to resolve a dispute.
✔✔Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) - ✔✔Enacted in 1986, it
allows an employee to extend company health care benefits for up to eighteen months
after he or she leaves a job.
✔✔Constructive Discharge - ✔✔Resignation of an employee because an employer
allows working conditions that are no longer tolerable for any reasonable employee.
✔✔Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) - ✔✔An entity that collects and provides
information about persons for use in credit and/or employment evaluation.
✔✔Continual Training Requirement - ✔✔A mandate that all employers provide training
to workers on a periodic basis and whenever an employee is hired or assigned to a new
job.
✔✔Continuous Leave - ✔✔A type of leave in which an employee is absent from work
for a continuous length of time.
✔✔Contract - ✔✔A legally binding agreement between two parties.
✔✔Contributory Negligence - ✔✔An employer defense that an employee's errant
conduct contributed to a workplace injury.
✔✔Course of Employment - ✔✔Any action by an employee that furthers an employer's
business.
✔✔Covenant of Good Faith - ✔✔A presumption that each party in a contract will deal
with each other in good faith and fairness.
✔✔Covered Employer - ✔✔An employer that is engaged in a commerce industry and
employs fifteen or more employees.
, ✔✔Covered Employment Agency - ✔✔An agency that regularly procures employees for
at least one covered employer; subject to employment law regulation.
✔✔Customer Discriminatory Preference - ✔✔An unacceptable pretext of discrimination
in which an employer uses race as the basis for a business decision in order to please
customers.
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔Communicating false statements that harm a person's reputation.
✔✔Defined Benefit Pension Plan - ✔✔A type of pension plan that provides a fixed
amount payment upon retirement.
✔✔Defined Contribution Pension Plan - ✔✔A type of pension plan in which an employer
sets aside a certain amount each year for the employee, to be distributed upon
retirement.
✔✔Direct Evidence - ✔✔Real, clear evidence of discrimination that requires no
inference or consideration to prove its existence.
✔✔Disability - ✔✔A physical or mental condition that hinders an employee's movement
or activities.
✔✔Discovery - ✔✔Procedures for gathering facts prior to the time of trial in order to
eliminate the element of surprise in litigation.
✔✔Disparate Impact Discrimination - ✔✔Discrimination in which a plaintiff claims not
that the employer intentionally discriminated, but rather the employer's procedures,
policies, or practices have the effect of creating an unnecessary obstacle to
employment opportunity for a protected class.
✔✔Disparate Treatment - ✔✔Theory of discrimination based on different treatment
given to individuals because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or
disability status.
✔✔Drug Free Workplace Act - ✔✔Enacted in 1988, it requires federal contractors to
enforce drug-free policies.
✔✔Drug Testing - ✔✔A method of testing for an employer to prevent the use of drugs
among its employees.
✔✔Dual Purpose Mission - ✔✔Occurs when an employee conducts personal and work
business at the same time; subjecting the employer to liability for the employee's
actions.
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Civil Law - ✔✔Laws that deal with the rights of people rather than with crimes.
✔✔Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔Enacted in 1964, it prohibits race discrimination in
employment.
✔✔Clayton Act - ✔✔Enacted in 1914, it prohibits the elimination of unions.
✔✔Closed Union Shop - ✔✔An illegal requirement that an employee be a union
member.
✔✔Collective Bargaining - ✔✔The negotiation process between unions and employers.
✔✔Color - ✔✔Skin pigmentation characteristic of race, especially other than White.
✔✔Common Law - ✔✔Principles developed over centuries as a result of legal decisions
made by judges in individual cases.
✔✔Common Law Agency - ✔✔A test that classifies a worker as an employee if the
employer maintains the right to control the method of work performed.
✔✔Common Law Criminal Conspiracy - ✔✔A combination of two or more individuals
planning to accomplish an unlawful purpose.
✔✔Community of Interests - ✔✔A community of people who align themselves with a
common interest.
✔✔Comparable Worth Theory - ✔✔The notion that men and women should receive
equal pay when they perform work that requires comparable skills and responsibilities.
✔✔Comparative Evidence - ✔✔Evidence of discrimination that is found by comparing
two similarly situated employees who were treated differently because of a class
characteristic.
✔✔Compensatory Damages - ✔✔Monetary compensation necessary to replace a
plaintiff's losses.
✔✔Compensatory Time - ✔✔An option for public employers to allow time off for
employees instead of payment.
✔✔Complaint - ✔✔A formal allegation against a party.
,✔✔Compliance Requirement - ✔✔A mandate that all employers comply with all safety
and health requirements issued by the Department of Labor.
✔✔Concerted Activity - ✔✔Any effort by employees to join together to seek
improvement in working conditions.
✔✔Conciliation - ✔✔Process where a third party acts as an intermediary between the
parties to a labor dispute, helping them to reach a settlement.
✔✔Conglomerate - ✔✔A highly diversified firm that has multiple businesses with no
relationships.
✔✔Consent Decree - ✔✔An agreement between two parties to resolve a dispute.
✔✔Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) - ✔✔Enacted in 1986, it
allows an employee to extend company health care benefits for up to eighteen months
after he or she leaves a job.
✔✔Constructive Discharge - ✔✔Resignation of an employee because an employer
allows working conditions that are no longer tolerable for any reasonable employee.
✔✔Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) - ✔✔An entity that collects and provides
information about persons for use in credit and/or employment evaluation.
✔✔Continual Training Requirement - ✔✔A mandate that all employers provide training
to workers on a periodic basis and whenever an employee is hired or assigned to a new
job.
✔✔Continuous Leave - ✔✔A type of leave in which an employee is absent from work
for a continuous length of time.
✔✔Contract - ✔✔A legally binding agreement between two parties.
✔✔Contributory Negligence - ✔✔An employer defense that an employee's errant
conduct contributed to a workplace injury.
✔✔Course of Employment - ✔✔Any action by an employee that furthers an employer's
business.
✔✔Covenant of Good Faith - ✔✔A presumption that each party in a contract will deal
with each other in good faith and fairness.
✔✔Covered Employer - ✔✔An employer that is engaged in a commerce industry and
employs fifteen or more employees.
, ✔✔Covered Employment Agency - ✔✔An agency that regularly procures employees for
at least one covered employer; subject to employment law regulation.
✔✔Customer Discriminatory Preference - ✔✔An unacceptable pretext of discrimination
in which an employer uses race as the basis for a business decision in order to please
customers.
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔Communicating false statements that harm a person's reputation.
✔✔Defined Benefit Pension Plan - ✔✔A type of pension plan that provides a fixed
amount payment upon retirement.
✔✔Defined Contribution Pension Plan - ✔✔A type of pension plan in which an employer
sets aside a certain amount each year for the employee, to be distributed upon
retirement.
✔✔Direct Evidence - ✔✔Real, clear evidence of discrimination that requires no
inference or consideration to prove its existence.
✔✔Disability - ✔✔A physical or mental condition that hinders an employee's movement
or activities.
✔✔Discovery - ✔✔Procedures for gathering facts prior to the time of trial in order to
eliminate the element of surprise in litigation.
✔✔Disparate Impact Discrimination - ✔✔Discrimination in which a plaintiff claims not
that the employer intentionally discriminated, but rather the employer's procedures,
policies, or practices have the effect of creating an unnecessary obstacle to
employment opportunity for a protected class.
✔✔Disparate Treatment - ✔✔Theory of discrimination based on different treatment
given to individuals because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or
disability status.
✔✔Drug Free Workplace Act - ✔✔Enacted in 1988, it requires federal contractors to
enforce drug-free policies.
✔✔Drug Testing - ✔✔A method of testing for an employer to prevent the use of drugs
among its employees.
✔✔Dual Purpose Mission - ✔✔Occurs when an employee conducts personal and work
business at the same time; subjecting the employer to liability for the employee's
actions.
