Compensation Administration - Chapter 17 Questions

________ prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. A) Executive Order 11452 B) The FMLA C) Executive Order 11246 D) The Rehabilitation Act

C) Executive Order 11246

Susan works in a sterile laboratory that requires her to scrub and put on protective clothing. Which of the following acts determines whether she should be paid for this time? A) The Fair Labor Standards Act B) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act C) The Portal-to-Portal Act D) The Health Care Workers Protection Act

C) The Portal-to-Portal Act

The highest rates of child labor are in A) China. B) India. C) Latin America. D) sub-Saharan Africa.

D) sub-Saharan Africa.

Prevailing-wage laws A) set pay for work done to produce goods and services contracted by the state government. B) specify that a government-defined prevailing wage is the maximum wage that must be paid for work done on covered government projects. C) give contractors the right to drive down wages using their size. D) were passed in response to conditions on projects such as the construction of the Hoover Dam during the Depression.

D) were passed in response to conditions on projects such as the construction of the Hoover Dam during the Depression.

Regarding pay differences for different jobs, A) courts continue to rely on the use of employer opinion surveys to justify differences. B) the courts favor reliance on the use of statistical models. C) court decisions have been inconclusive. D) courts continue to uphold the use of market data to justify differences.

D) courts continue to uphold the use of market data to justify differences.

Which of the following includes a provision that requires public companies to set policies to allow executive compensation to be taken back if it was based on inaccurate financial statements that did not comply with accounting standards? A) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act B) The Troubled Asset Relief Program C) The Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement 123 R D) The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

D) The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Which of the following groups can qualify for the exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938? A) Computer employees B) Police and other first responders C) Paramedics D) Fire fighters

A) Computer employees

Which of the following is a test that must be met to qualify for the administrative employee exemption? A) The employee must be compensated on a salary or fee basis at a rate not less than $455 per week. B) The employee's primary duty must be performance of manual work. C) The employee must customarily and regularly direct the work of at least two or more other full-time employees or their equivalent. D) The employee must have the authority to hire or fire other employees.

A) The employee must be compensated on a salary or fee basis at a rate not less than $455 per week.

The denial of jobs, promotions, or training opportunities to qualified women or minorities are examples of A) access discrimination. B) valuation discrimination. C) treatment discrimination. D) hostile environment.

A) access discrimination.

The executive branch of the federal government A) enforces laws through agencies and its other bodies. B) passes new laws. C) interprets laws and considers their constitutionality. D) changes existing laws.

A) enforces laws through agencies and its other bodies.

The determination of pay discrimination on jobs of dissimilar content requires a standard that allows jobs of dissimilar content to be declared comparable and that allows pay differences for jobs that are not comparable. This standard is A) job evaluation. B) comparable worth analysis. C) disparate impact analysis. D) point factor market comparison.

A) job evaluation.

Under the ________, employers can be liable for current pay differences that are a result of discrimination that occurred many years earlier. A) Sarbanes-Oxley Act B) Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act C) Equal Pay Act D) Fair Labor Standards Act

B) Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

MNTX University requires that all its female professors score higher than the male professors in their appraisal rating to qualify for a pay bonus as there are more female professors than male professors in the university. Which of the following statements is true in this case? A) MNTX is liable for access discrimination against women. B) MNTX is liable for disparate treatment of women. C) MNTX's pay policy is legal as educational institutions are exempt under the Equal Pay Act. D) MNTX's pay policy is legal as its intention is to reduce the overall costs of the company and not to discriminate.

B) MNTX is liable for disparate treatment of women.

The ________ specifies the number of breaks that must be provided in an eight-hour workday. A) Portal-to-Portal Act B) Occupational Safety and Health Administration legislation C) Walsh-Healey Public Contracts legislation D) Equal Pay Act

B) Occupational Safety and Health Administration legislation

________ is defined by the Department of Labor as experience, training, education, and ability as measured by the performance requirements of a particular job. A) Effort B) Skill C) Responsibility D) Working condition

B) Skill

In the context of child labor, which of the following statements is true? A) The steepest declines in child labor in Brazil and Mexico are among children 17 years and younger. B) Population growth in Latin American countries has led to replacement of child laborers with adult workers. C) The lowest rates of child labor are in sub-Saharan Africa. D) Child labor has decreased in most countries across the world in recent years.

D) Child labor has decreased in most countries across the world in recent years.

________ has produced more comparable-worth pay increases than any other approach. A) Integrative bargaining B) Win-win bargaining C) Interest-based bargaining D) Collective bargaining

D) Collective bargaining

Meltrop Corp. employs two store clerks, Sam and Stella. Stella sues Meltrop claiming unequal pay as she earns $500 a week less than Sam does despite doing the same work as Sam. Which of the following is most likely to be the result of the litigation? A) Meltrop will win the litigation as blue-collar workers are exempt from the Equal Pay Act. B) Meltrop will win the litigation if it can prove that Stella is Sam's senior. C) Meltrop will lose the litigation as it has committed access discrimination. D) Meltrop will lose the litigation as it has committed valuation discrimination.

D) Meltrop will lose the litigation as it has committed valuation discrimination.

Under the ________ Act, executives cannot retain bonuses or profits from selling company stock if they mislead the public about the financial health of the company. A) Worker Economic Opportunity B) Davis-Bacon C) Walsh-Healey D) Sarbanes-Oxley

D) Sarbanes-Oxley

Which of the following is one of the basic steps in establishing a comparable-worth pay plan? A) Adopting multiple gender neutral point job evaluation plans for all jobs within a unit B) Paying jobs with different evaluation results with different wage rates C) Basing the wage-to-job evaluation point ratio on the wages paid for female-dominated jobs D) Identifying the percentages of male and female employees in each job group

C) Basing the wage-to-job evaluation point ratio on the wages paid for female-dominated jobs

In which of the following types of cases is the focus on the discriminatory consequences rather than the intent to discriminate? A) Disparate treatment B) Access discrimination C) Disparate impact D) Valuation discrimination

C) Disparate impact

Which of the following statements regarding wage differences in industries and firms is NOT true? A) Wages of men in large firms are 54 percent higher than wages of men in small firms. B) Hispanic men are concentrated in construction and service firms. C) Female employment is more heavily concentrated in large firms. D) The pay premium associated with changing jobs is enjoyed primarily by white males.

C) Female employment is more heavily concentrated in large firms.

Who among the following has violated the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938? A) Rachel, who pays all her workers a minimum wage of $13 B) Sally, who does not consider the time her employees spend travelling to work as compensable time C) Jeremy, who employs his 16-year-old cousin in his meat-packing plant D) Randy, who employs his 17-year-old son in his stationery store as a cashier

C) Jeremy, who employs his 16-year-old cousin in his meat-packing plant

An early study of the effects of the living wage law in Los Angeles found all of the following EXCEPT that A) 7,735 of the employees covered by the law received an average wage increase of 20 percent. B) 1 percent of covered jobs were lost. C) a higher proportion of new hires were female. D) turnover and absenteeism declined.

C) a higher proportion of new hires were female.

The Davis-Bacon Act A) states that income from most stock plans need not be included in calculating overtime pay. B) increases the burden of proof on employers to rebut some discrimination claims. C) requires that mechanics and laborers on public construction projects be paid the prevailing wage in an area. D) extends the prevailing-wage concept to manufacturers or suppliers of goods for government contracts.

C) requires that mechanics and laborers on public construction projects be paid the prevailing wage in an area.

The Equal Pay Act is a part of the A) the Securities Exchange Act. B) the Title VII of Civil Rights Act. C) the Fair Labor Standards Act. D) the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act.

C) the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The ________ Act extends the prevailing-wage concept to manufacturers or suppliers of goods for government contracts. A) Sarbanes-Oxley B) Walsh-Healey Public Contracts C) Fair Labor Standards D) Davis-Bacon

B) Walsh-Healey Public Contracts