WGU C233 Employment Law:
Vocabulary – Latest 2023 Graded A+
American with Disabilities Act (ADA) ✔✔Employers with 15 or more employees are prohibited from discriminating against people with disabilities. In general, the employment provisions of
the ADA require:
- equal opportunity in selecting, testing, and hiring qualified applicants with disabilities
- job accomodation for applicants and workers with disabilities when such accomodations would
- equal opportunity in promotion and benefits
not impose "undue hardship"
Affirmative action ✔✔Making an extra effort to hire and promote those in protected groups, particularly when those groups are underrepresented
Affirmative action plan ✔✔Plan that analyzes a workforce to determine whether protected classes are underutilized in different job groups, and describes how an organization will address any underutilization that exists
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) ✔✔Act prohibiting arbitrary age discrimination, specifically protecting individuals over the age of 40 1 / 3
Agency theory ✔✔Person (for example, a manager) is expected to act on behalf of a principal (for example, the owner of the company)
Animus ✔✔Mind set or intention
Arbitration ✔✔A procedure for resolving collective bargaining impasses by which an arbitrator (third party) chooses a solution to the dispute
Bargaining unit ✔✔A group of employees performing jobs in an industry with sufficient "community of interests" to constitute a unit to be represented in collective bargaining
BFOQ (Bonafide Occupational Qualifications) ✔✔Job requirements that an employee be a particular religion, sex, or national origin that is reasonably necessary to business operations. For instance, it is assumed that an opening for a Baptist minister at a local Baptist church would be filled by a minister who is actually a person who celebrates the Baptist religion and not, say, the Episcopal religion
Business necessity ✔✔A practice necessary for safe and efficient organizational operations 2 / 3
Case law ✔✔The law is laid down in the the decisions for the courts (distinct from statutes or other sources of law)
Civil law ✔✔Laws that deal with the rights of people rather than with crimes
Color ✔✔Skin pigmentation especially other than white characteristic of race
Common law ✔✔Principles developed over centuries as a result of legal decisions made by judges in individual cases
Comparable worth ✔✔A public policy that advocates remedies for any undervaluation of women's jobs (also called pay equity)
Complaint ✔✔A formal allegation against a party
Conciliation ✔✔Process where a third party acts as an intermediary between the parties in a labor dispute, helping them to reach a settlement
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