Compensation Management

Jennifer works as a clerk in a company. The essential function of her job is typing on a keyboard. If she develops crippling arthritis that interferes with her ability to type, which act requires her employer to make reasonable accommodations, such as providing a voice-recognition input device?

Until recently, ACME Manufacturing granted every employee one week of paid vacation each year. The company switched its policy, offering substantially more weeks of paid vacation to employees with high seniority (more than 5 years, in this case). The average seniority of female employees at ACME is 2.5 years and 7.75 years for male employees. Which form of discrimination is this policy at risk of creating?

Which of the following is typically the case for companies that operate in product markets where there is relatively little competition from other companies?

Antidiscrimination laws have contributed to which of the following?

This act strengthened the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by requiring employers to show that pay disparities are job related rather than sex-based. This act also prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who share their salary information.

In which important way are relative pay and pay rate differentials consistent?

Which of the following examples is NOT considered a compensable work activity?

Which term best describes the extent to which companies’ operations are based on the use of large-scale equipment?

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, individual states, and Indian Tribes?

Why do pay rate differentials not fully match relative pay differentials?

Which of the following is NOT a protected characteristic by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Based upon the FLSA child labor provisions, what is the minimum age that a child must be in order to be legally employed?

Compared to the duration of most training in capital intensive industries, service industry training tends to be which of the following?

An employee has a regular hourly rate equal to $12. According to FLSA, how much should her/his employer pay this employee for each additional hour worked beyond the regular 40 hours within a period of 7 consecutive days?

The decline in union influence can be explained by which of the following reasons?