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Q:
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 requires employers to provide:
A. up to 8 weeks of unpaid leave after childbirth or adoption.
B. reinstatement to the same (or a comparable) job upon the employee's return to work.
C. paid leave to any employee who has one or more years of full-time service.
D. up to 18 weeks of unpaid leave to care of a seriously ill parent, spouse, or child.
E. up to one month of paid leave to take care of a seriously ill spouse, child, or parent.
Q:
A company can establish a BFOQ for a position and legally defend that job qualification by presenting evidence of customer preference for that quality in an employee.
Q:
To take unpaid family leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, employees must meet which of the following criteria?
A. Should be working for an employer with 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius
B. Should have worked at least 15 hours per week
C. Should have worked for the employer for more than 5 years
D. Should belong to the top 10 percent of highest paid executives
E. Should be working for an employer with at least 100 employees
Q:
An applicant who is drug addict, currently engaged in illegal use of drugs, has rights to employment that are outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Q:
The cost of a worker's compensation insurance depends on:
A. the profit earned by the organization during the concerned fiscal.
B. the number of years the concerned worker has been working in the organization.
C. the total strength of the organization's workforce.
D. the number of years for which the organization has been in business.
E. the state where the company is located.
Q:
An affirmative action plan developed by contractors and subcontractors to ensure equal employment opportunity is monitored by the Office of Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) in the U.S. Department of Labor.
Q:
Which one of the following is true of workers' compensation?
A. Employees are covered under the "no-fault" provision even if the injury is self-inflicted.
B. Disability income is not covered under this benefit.
C. It provides payments to offset lost income during involuntary unemployment.
D. Funding for the program comes from the state taxes on employees.
E. The benefits provided to the workers are not taxable.
Q:
One of the affirmative defense strategies recommended for organizations is to detail the sanctions for violators and protection for those who make any charges.
Q:
In which of the following areas are unemployment insurance benefits and workers' compensation benefits similar?
A. Both these programs are funded by the federal taxes on employees.
B. Both these costs depend on the organization's experience ratings.
C. The funding costs of both these programs are same across the states.
D. Both the programs replace the same percentage of an individual's previous earnings.
E. The amount of compensation provided to the employees is fixed under both the programs.
Q:
White men are not legally able to file suit under Title VII of the CRA.
Q:
Workers are eligible for unemployment benefits if they:
A. voluntarily quit a job.
B. are out of work due to health reasons.
C. were discharged for cause.
D. are actively seeking work.
E. are out of work because of a labor dispute.
Q:
If the employee does not suffer economic injury, or discharge there can be no charge of discrimination.
Q:
Harassment is not a form of employment discrimination.
Q:
The employer's _____ refers to the number of employees the company laid off in the past and the cost of providing them with unemployment benefits.
A. attrition
B. scalability
C. experience rating
D. Six Sigma score
E. wage drift
Q:
The Fisher test can be used to ascertain the relationship between two categorical variables and two levels.
Q:
The unemployment insurance program is financed largely through federal and state taxes on:
A. both employees and employers.
B. employers only.
C. employees only.
D. retirees.
E. only high income group of citizens.
Q:
Which one of the following is an objective of the unemployment insurance program?
A. To improve the productivity and skill set of workers
B. To protect the employer from lawsuits
C. To provide an incentive for employers to stabilize employment
D. To offset lost income during voluntary unemployment
E. To help workers with the expenses resulting from job-related accidents and illnesses
Q:
The 80 percent or four-fifths rule derives from the EEOCs Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures.
Q:
Which legal benefit requires employers to pay payroll tax depending on state requirements?
A. Long-term disability insurance
B. Unemployment insurance
C. Workers' compensation
D. Unpaid family medical leave
E. Health care benefits
Q:
Employers can fire or reassign an employee who files EEO charges or parties who testify on behalf of plaintiffs in cases of disparate treatment with no need to consider the legal implications of those actions.
Q:
Which one of the following is true of Social Security benefits?
A. Benefits are taxed as ordinary income at both the federal and state level.
B. Workers who meet requirements receive retirement benefits according to age and earnings history.
C. Workers are not required to meet any eligibility rules to receive benefits.
D. The cost of the program is borne entirely by the employees who pay a payroll tax.
E. The program covers railroad and federal, state, and local government employees.
Q:
The time limits for filing a charge of discrimination have been modified under the Equal Pay Act.
Q:
Social Security is formally known as the _____.
A. paid leave program
B. New Deal program
C. Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance program
D. employee wellness program
E. noncontributory plan
Q:
The 180-day deadline for filing a charge of discrimination can never be extended.
Q:
Which one of the following employer-provided benefits is required by law in the U.S.?
A. Floating holidays
B. Paid vacation leave
C. Unpaid family and medical leave
D. Long-term disability insurance
E. Long-term care insurance
Q:
Title VII prohibits all bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQs) or discriminatory practices.
Q:
Which of the following legally required employer-provided benefits help workers injured on the job?
A. Social Security
B. Unemployment insurance
C. Group insurance
D. Workers' compensation
E. Family and medical leave
Q:
Employer sanctions resulting from a case of disparate impact can affect areas of the business beyond HR, for example changes to advertising strategies and catalog content.
Q:
The EEOCs definition of an applicant is not relevant to cases of adverse treatment.
Q:
In general, Social Security provides support for _____.
A. laid-off workers
B. workers injured on the job
C. retired workers
D. self-injured workers
E. sick workers
Q:
The Equal Pay Act (EPA) prohibits indiscrimination on the basis of age by apprenticeship programs, including joint labor-management apprenticeship programs.
Q:
Which of the following benefits is required by law in the United States?
A. Sick leave
B. Personal leave
C. Medical care
D. Social Security
E. Paid leave
Q:
Which of the following is true of benefits?
A. They allow employees to buy their own insurance.
B. They let employees to contribute to their own savings plans.
C. Employees do not pay income taxes on most benefits they receive.
D. They give employees greater control over what their compensation buys.
E. Laws usually do not require employers to provide benefits.
Q:
All claims of discrimination under CRA, ADEA, and ADA need be filed with the EEOC either directly or through dual filing with a state agency.
Q:
EEO legislation is meant to ensure that personnel selection decision are non-discriminatory, however, the law is silent on issues related to training, compensation and employee discipline.
Q:
Employees and job applicants often have a poor idea of what benefits they have and what the market value of their benefits is.
Q:
Retaliation is a special form of disparate impact.
Q:
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are required to take care not to discriminate against workers over age 40 in providing pay or benefits.
Q:
Job-relatedness requires the employer to use a careful job analysis to identify the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the job.
Q:
Cafeteria-style plans permit employees to choose the types and amounts of benefits they want for themselves from a given set of alternatives.
Q:
The four-fifths rule indicates that a selection rate (number selected/number considered) for a protected group cannot be greater than four-fifths or 80 percent of the selection rate for the group with the highest selection rate.
Q:
What differentiates domestic HR from international HR?
Q:
The use of wellness programs and consumer-directed health plans in an organization reflect its objective of controlling the cost of healthcare benefits.
Q:
What is the objective of businesses creating offshore professional and operations centers.
Q:
Tuition reimbursement programs offered by certain organizations cover the tuition and other education related expenses of their workers' children.
Q:
Which are the common areas of conflict in a joint venture?
Q:
Tax-favored 529 savings plans allow employees to set aside a portion of their pretax earnings to purchase long-term care insurance.
Q:
According to ERISA, employees whose contributions are vested have met the requirements to receive a pension at retirement age.
Q:
Explain the merits and demerits of licensing and franchising to the licensors, licensees, franchisors, and franchisees.
Q:
A defined contribution plan guarantees a specified or fixed level of retirement income.
Q:
List few reasons why a company would choose exports as an option for international commerce.
Q:
Disability insurance payments are usually less than 25 percent of the employee's salary.
Q:
List the five Asian economies expected to share the world's largest economies with the U.S. by 2020.
Q:
Employees are most likely to benefit from a flexible spending account if they have predictable health care expenses, such as insurance premiums.
Q:
List a few reasons for organizations to expand their business interests beyond their national boundaries?
Q:
Health maintenance organizations charge patients half the fee for each visit and service.
Q:
Your company has decided to open a branch in another country. As the human resource manager, it is your job to determine how the foreign subsidiary will interact with the parent corporation. Define the four international human resource management strategies you may choose from. Be sure to describe the role both locals and expatriates would play in the subsidiary's development.
Q:
What factors influence the decision to invest in a particular international market?
Q:
For the average employee, the most common type of insurance offered as benefits is the pension program.
Q:
When determining how to compensate expatriates, an advantage of the going-rate approach is that
A) the expatriate is kept whole during the assignment because his pay is similar to the pay that would have been received for working the same job in their home county
B) locals perceive the pay as fair because the expatriate is paid at a rate that is similar to the pay received by local employees of that company who have similar position, performance and experience.
C) it is an effective means to reduce costs because you are offering the expatriate the ability to choose from a variety of benefit options that are appropriate to the location of the expatriate assignment.
D) although it is a high cost approach, the ability of the expatriate to save on housing and social expenses while on assignment makes expatriate assignments in countries with low pay levels more attractive.
E) with the increase in dual income families, this options provides an incentive for both the employee of the company and their spouse to accept an expatriate assignment
Q:
As an employee benefit, personal days are scheduled so that they extend a Tuesday or Thursday holiday into a long weekend.
Q:
Which of the following statement best describes host-country nationals?
A) Individuals who have proven themselves in the local marketplace.
B) Individuals who are residents of the organizations home country who are sent offshore on assignment
C) Individuals contributing important information, perspective, and decision-making factors.
D) Individuals attaching more importance to freedom and challenges in job.
E) Individuals who are residents of countries in which a foreign subsidiary is located.
Q:
Employers in the U.S. are legally required to provide 30 days of paid vacation to both new and existing employees every year.
Q:
Individuals who are residents of the organizations home country who are sent offshore on assignment are called __________.
A) third-country nationals
B) host country nationals
C) parent country nationals
D) parent host nationals
E) third-host nationals
Q:
Benefits provided to domestic partners of employees have the same tax advantages as benefits provided to their spouses.
Q:
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 requires organizations with 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius to provide as much as 12 weeks of unpaid leave to qualifying employees.
Q:
UNCTAD is an abbreviation for __________.
A) United Nations Conference on Tariff and Development
B) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
C) United National Conference on Trade and Development
D) United National Conference on Tariff and Development
E) Unified Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Q:
A(n) __________ is formed when companies agree to partner with one another, but do not set up a separate entity.
A) Joint venture
B) Merger
C) Strategic alliance
D) Sole ownership
E) Task force
Q:
Under the workers' compensation laws, employees are eligible to receive compensation even if their injuries are self-inflicted.
Q:
Pepsi provides Heineken with its formula or agrees to supply the cola syrup and Heineken adds carbonated water, packages it in appropriate containers, and sells it in the Netherlands. Pepsi cannot enter into a similar agreement with another firm to sell Pepsi in the Netherlands, and Heineken cannot alter the product, nor can it begin duplicating other Pepsi products (such as Lays Potato Chips) without a separate agreement. This is an example of:
A) Franchising.
B) Exporting.
C) Licensing.
D) Contract manufacturing.
E) Management contracts.
Q:
The funding for unemployment insurance comes from federal and state taxes on employees.
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Social Security benefits are free from federal income taxes and state taxes in all U.S. states.
Q:
Hofstedes work on culture and its impact on managing HR within an international environment was conducted in the 1960s and 70s. It is interesting that
A) the results of his work have been replicated, confirming the validity of his findings, and recent studies have expanded on his original theory.
B) while his work is often cited, it was impossible to replicate his findings in subsequent studies.
C) the results of his study can only be applied within the electronics industry and have no relevance outside of that industry.
D) the definition of culture when used in reference to a society is in many ways very different from the definition when used to describe the environment within a company.
E) the study found vast differences between the culture of the society and the culture of the local companies that operated in that society.
Q:
In the __________ approach, foreign subsidiaries have little autonomy, operations are centralized, and major decisions are made at corporate headquarters.
A) Geocentric
B) Ethnocentric
C) Polycentric
D) Regiocentric
E) Sociocentric
Q:
All U.S. employees, including federal, state, and local government employees, are covered under the Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance program.
Q:
A company that exports, as a means to sell its products in foreign markets will
A) Have a direct investment in a foreign market.
B) Increase sales volume allowing for better management of the costs associated with research and development
C) Avoid the high cost of transportation fees and tariffs and maintain a competitive advantage.
D) Enable individuals to take advantage of existing advertising and training to ensure success.
E) Maintain exclusivity with one other company to distribute product and control their brand in the foreign country.
Q:
The addition of creative benefits packages in the worker's compensation portfolio provides employers a competitive edge in acquiring and retaining talented employees in their organization.
Q:
A(n) __________ leases the right to use its intellectual property to another firm.
A) Licensor
B) Licensee
C) Franchisee
D) Contractor
E) Expatriate
Q:
Tax laws generally make benefits unfavorable to employees.
Q:
The UNCTAD index is based on a composite of ratios including:
A) Foreign assets, sales, and debt.
B) Domestic sales, employment and profit.
C) Foreign assets, employment, and profit.
D) Foreign assets, sales, and employment.
E) Domestic assets, employment and sales.