1 | Drug-Free Workplace Act | | _____ | U.S act that protects privacy of background information and ensures that information supplied is accurate. |
2 | Duty of Care | | _____ | Characteristic of an organization with a strong global image but an equally strong local identity. |
3 | Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) | | _____ | 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. |
4 | Employee Resource Group (ERG) | | _____ | Individuals who exchange work for wages or salary; in the U.S., workers who are covered by Fair Labor Standards Act regulations as determined by the IRS. |
5 | Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) | | _____ | Status of growing interconnectedness and interdependency among countries, people, markets, and organizations worldwide. |
6 | Employees | | _____ | 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. |
7 | Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) | | _____ | U.S. act that prohibits wage discrimination by requiring equal pay for equal or “substantially equal” work performed by men and women. |
8 | Equal Employmnet Opportunity Act | | _____ | 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. |
9 | Equal Pay Act (EPA) | | _____ | U.S act that amended Title VII and gave the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission authority to implement its administrative findings and conduct its own enforcement litigation. |
10 | Essential Functions | | _____ | Employees who are excluded from U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage and overtime pay requirements. |
11 | Ethics | | _____ | U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not. |
12 | Exempt Employees | | _____ | 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. |
13 | Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) | | _____ | Primary job duties that a qualified individual must be able to perform, either with or without reasonable accommodation. |
14 | Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) | | _____ | Voluntary group for employees who share a particular diversity dimension (race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.); also known as affinity group or network group. |
15 | Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) | | _____ | 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. |
16 | Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) | | _____ | U.S act that prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of their genetic information in both employment and health insurance. |
17 | Faragher v. City of Boca Raton | | _____ | 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. |
18 | Gender Identity | | _____ | U.S act that establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, youth employment, and record-keeping standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. |
19 | General Duty Clause | | _____ | 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. |
20 | Genetic Information Noniscrimination Act (GINA) | | _____ | 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. |
21 | Global Integration (GI) | | _____ | U.S. law that requires federal contractors with contracts of $100,000 or more as well as recipients of grants from federal government to certify they are maintaining a drug-free workplace. |
22 | Globalization | | _____ | Globalization strategy that emphasizes consistency of approach, standardization of processes, and a common corporate culture across global operations. |
23 | "Glocalization" | | _____ | Set of behavioral guidelines that an organization expects all of its directors, managers, and employees to follow, in order to ensure appropriate moral and ethical business standards. |