1	ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA)		_____	Differences in people’s characteristics (such as socioeconomic status, beliefs, personality, thought processes, work style, race, age, ethnicity, gender, religion, education, job function, etc.).
2	Adverse Impact		_____	Concept that jobs filled primarily by women that require skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions comparable to similar jobs filled primarily by men should have the same classifications and salaries.
3	Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)		_____	U.S. act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose health-care coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.
4	Amendment		_____	Physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one’s major life activities.
5	Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)		_____	Modification of the U.S. Constitution or a U.S. law.
6	Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE)		_____	Type of discrimination that occurs when an applicant or employee is treated differently because of his or her membership in a protected class.
7	Assignees		_____	State of being in accordance with all national, federal, regional, and/or local laws, regulations, and/or other government authorities and requirements applicable to the places in which an organization operates
8	Bill		_____	Situation in which a person or organization may potentially benefit, directly or indirectly, from undue influence, due to involvement in outside activities, relationships, or investments that conflict with or have an impact on the employment relationship or its outcomes.
9	Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)		_____	Protocol than an organization implements when an identified risk event occurs.
10	Burlington Industries, Inc. V. Ellerth		_____	Expected monetary loss for an asset due to a risk over a one-year period; calculated by multiplying single loss expectancy by annualized rate of occurrence.
11	Civil Rights Act of 1964		_____	U.S. act that prohibits discrimination against a qualified individual with a disability because of his/her disability.
12	Civil Rights Act of 1991		_____	Amendments to U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act covering the definition of individuals regarded as having a disability, mitigating measures, and other rules of construction to guide the analysis of what constitutes a disability.
13	Comparable Worth		_____	Factor (such as religion, gender, national origin, etc.) that is reasonably necessary, in the normal operations of an organization, to carry out a particular job function.
14	Compliance		_____	U.S. act that prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of age.
15	Conflict of Interest		_____	Defensive behavior that occurs when an organization recruits a diverse workforce but, consciously or otherwise, promotes assimilation rather than inclusion.
16	Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)		_____	Task force created to define a diversity and inclusion initiative and guide the development and implementation process.
17	Contingency Plan		_____	A proposal presented to a legislative body for possible enactment as a statute.
18	Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)		_____	Employees who work outside their home countries.
19	Covering		_____	First comprehensive U.S. law making it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
20	Disability		_____	Type of discrimination that results when a neutral policy has a discriminatory effect; also known as adverse impact.
21	Disparate Impact		_____	U.S. act that expands the possible damage awards available to victims of intentional discrimination to include compensatory and punitive damages; gives plaintiffs in cases of alleged discrimination the right to a jury trial.
22	Disparate Treatment		_____	Type of discrimination that results when a neutral policy has a discriminatory effect; also known as disparate impact.
23	Diversity		_____	Varying ways an organization can create value, looking beyond traditional profit measures of revenue and expenses; includes such areas as philanthropy, volunteerism, corporate-sponsored community programs, social change, sustainability, corporate governance, employee rights, and workplace safety.
24	Diversity Council		_____	U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.