1 | Nonexempt Employees | | _____ | Time allowed for the public to express its views and concerns regarding an action of an administrative agency. |
2 | Occupational Illness | | _____ | U.S. act that amended the Age Discrimination in Employment Act to include all employee benefits; also provided standards that an employee’s waiver of the right to sue for age discrimination must meet in order to be upheld by a court. |
3 | Occupational Injury | | _____ | Required for nonexempt workers under U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act at 1.5 times the regular rate of pay for hours over 40 in a workweek. |
4 | Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act | | _____ | Type of sexual harassment that occurs when an employee is forced to choose between givng in to a superior’s sexual demands and forfeiting an economic benefit such as a pay increase, a promotion, or continued employment. |
5 | Offshoring | | _____ | Extent to which underlying operations such as IT, finance, or HR integrate across locations. |
6 | Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) | | _____ | Employees covered under U. S. Fair Labor Standards Act regulations, including minimum wage and overtime pay requirements. |
7 | Onshoring | | _____ | U.S. act that defines what is included as hours worked and is therefore compensable and a factor in calculating overtime. |
8 | Outsourcing | | _____ | Process by which an organization contracts with third-party vendors to provide selected services/activities, instead of hiring new employees. |
9 | Overtime Pay | | _____ | Relocation of business processes or production to a lower-cost location inside the same country as the business. |
10 | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) | | _____ | Modifying job application process, work environment, or circumstances under which job is performed to enable a qualified individual with a disability to be considered for the job and perform its essential functions. |
11 | Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation | | _____ | People who are covered under a particular federal or state antidiscrimination law. |
12 | Portal-to-Portal Act | | _____ | Situation in which an agent (e.g., an employee) makes decisions for a principal (e.g., an employer) potentially on the basis of personal incentives that may not be aligned with the principal’s incentives. |
13 | Pregnancy Discrimination Act | | _____ | Medical condition or disorder, other than one resulting from an occupational injury, caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment. |
14 | Principal-Agency Problem | | _____ | Method by which an organization relocates its processes or production to an international location through subsidiaries or third-party affiliates. |
15 | Process Alignment | | _____ | U.S. act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. |
16 | Protected Class | | _____ | Injury that results from a work-related accident or exposure involving a single incident in the work environment. |
17 | Prudent Person Rule | | _____ | 2010 U.S. law that requires virtually all citizens and legal residents to have minimum health coverage and requires employers with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health coverage that meets minimum benefit specifications or pay a penalty. |
18 | Public Comment Period | | _____ | Rule or order issued by an administrative agency of government, which usually has the force of law. |
19 | Quid Pro Quo Harassment | | _____ | U.S. act that established the first national policy for safety and health and continues to deliver standards that employers must meet to guarantee the health and safety of their employees. |
20 | Reasonable Accommodation | | _____ | 1971 U.S. case that stated that an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with preschool-aged children while hiring men with such children. |
21 | Redeployment | | _____ | Process by which employees returning from international assignments reintegrate into their home country's culture, conditions and employment. |
22 | Regulation | | _____ | States that a fiduciary of a plan covered by the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act has legal and financial obligations not to take more risks when investing employee benefit program funds than a reasonably knowledgeable, prudent investor would under similar circumstances. |
23 | Repatriation | | _____ | Process by which an organization moves an employee out of an international assignment; can involve moving back to the home country, moving to a different global location, or moving to a new location or position in the current host country. |