Duty of care		U.S act that prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of their genetic information in both employment and health insurance.
Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)		U.S act that protects privacy of background information and ensures that information supplied is accurate.
Employee resource group (ERG)		Principle that organizations should take all steps that are reasonably possible to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of employees and protect them from foreseeable injury.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)		Refers to one's internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or boy or girl), which may or may not be the same as one's sexual assignment at birth.
Employment practices liability insurance (EPLI)		U.S act that amended Title VII and gave the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission authority to "back up" its administrative findings and conduct its own enforcement litigation.
Equal Employment Opportunity Act		U.S. act that established uniform minimum standards to ensure that employee benefit and pension plans are set up and maintained in a fair and financially sound manner.
Equal Pay Act (EPA)		Type of liability insurance covering an organization against claims by employees, former employees, and employment candidates alleging that their legal rights in the employment relationship have been violated.
Essential functions		U.S. act that prohibits wage discrimination by requiring equal pay for equal or “substantially equal” work performed by men and women.
Exempt employees		Employees who are excluded from U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage and overtime pay requirements.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act)		U.S act that frees employers who use third parties to conduct workplace investigations from the consent and disclosure requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in certain cases.
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)		Primary job duties that a qualified individual must be able to perform, either with or without reasonable accommodation.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)		U.S act that provides employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for family members or because of a serious health condition of the employee.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)		U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton		Globalization strategy that emphasizes consistency of approach, standardization of processes, and a common corporate culture across global operations.
Gender identity		Voluntary group for employees who share a particular diversity dimension (race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.); also known as affinity group or network group.
General Duty Clause		Statement in U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Act that requires employers subject to OSHA to provide employees with a safe and healthy work environment.
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)		U.S. act that prevents private employers from requiring applicants or employees to take a polygraph test for preemployment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions.
Global integration (GI)		U.S act that establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, youth employment, and record-keeping standards affecting full- and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.