Deck 2: Establishing the Employment Relationships

Question 1

The employer cannot terminate an employee-at-will under a fixed term employment agreement.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
An employer 's legitimate need to discriminate in hiring based on race, sex, or age.

Answer 2

b

Question 3

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
An agreement that ends at the expiration of the term stated in the agreement.

Answer 3

c

Question 4

A fixed-term agreement is the simplest and most often utilized type of employment agreement.

Question 5

The terminology "female wait staff" is proper when incorporated in a newspaper advertisement for an employment opening.

Question 6

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability that results from a practice that does not seem to be discriminatory and was not intended to be discrimina- tory.

Question 7

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
Termination due to an employee's failure to perform the duties that a person in the industry
would ordinarily perform under similar circumstances.

Question 8

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
The use of laser and computer technology to evaluate an individual's biological predispositions,
based upon the presence of a specific disease-associated gene on an individual's chromosome.

Question 9

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
Testing to ensure that the applicant is capable of performing and qualified for the position.

Question 10

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
Steps to remedy past discrimination in hiring, promotion, etc.

Question 11

Affirmative action and employment quotas are synonymous.

Question 12

Affirmative action requires hiring quotas for women or minorities, to the exclusion of other qual-
ified employees, whether or not the minorities or women are qualified for the job.

Question 13

No reference to a "permanent" position or a specified period of employment should be included
in an offer letter.

Question 14

Employers may not order a credit report on a job applicant.

Question 15

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
A written offer of employment that verifies the terms agreed to by the employer and the prospec-
tive employee.

Question 16

The severability clause provides that if any portion of an agreement is determined to be unen-
forceable, the other portions of the agreement continue to be effective.

Question 17

Criterion-related validation is the most traditional type of test validation.

Question 18

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
The strict numbers of women or minorities that must be hired to comply with affirmative action
requirements.

Question 19

Matching
a. offer letter
b. bona fide occupational qualification
c. fixed-term agreement
d. quotas
e. ineligibility testing
f. genetic testing
g. disparate impact
h. eligibility testing
i. affirmative action
j. good cause
Tests such as the polygraph, drug and alcohol tests, and HIV testing, that search for disqualify- ing factors for employment purposes.

Question 20

There is no legitimate reason for an employer to discriminate in hiring based on race, sex, or age.