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- Relevant Laws and Executive Orders
- Relevant Case Law
- Legal Concepts/Definitions Relevant to Workplace Planning and Employment
- Recruiting Candidates
- The Selection Process
- Background Checks
- Employment: Extending the Offer
- Onboarding
- Termination: The End of the Employment Life Cycle...or Is It?
- Exit Interviews
- Severance Packages
- Affirmative Action Plans
- Compensation and Benefits
- Documentation Strategies for HR Professionals
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Apply Your Knowledge
This chapter is from the book
Key Terms
- Workforce planning and employment (WPE)
- Executive orders
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 1964
- Bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)
- Seniority systems
- Piece-rate systems
- Protected classes
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Executive Order 11246, 1965
- Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)
- Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP), 1978
- Adverse impact (also known as “disparate impact”)
- Reliability
Validity
- Content validity
- Criterion-related validity
- Construct validity
- Predictive validity
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 1967
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 1970
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act, 1972
Rehabilitation Act, 1973
- Section 503
- Section 504
- Section 508
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act, 1978
Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), 1986
- I-9 form
- Drug-Free Workplace Act, 1988
- Department of Labor (DOL)
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARNA), 1988
- Mass layoff
- Plant closing
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 1990
- Individual with a disability
- Qualified person
- Reasonable accommodation
- Undue hardship
- Major life activities
Civil Rights Act of 1991
- Compensatory damages
- Punitive damages
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 1993
- Covered employers
- Eligible employees
- Leave entitlement
- Serious health condition
- Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), 1994
- Department of Justice
- Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), 1995
Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), 2008
- Qualified exigency leave
- Military caregiver leave
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), 2008
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 2009
- Griggs v. Duke Power, 1971
- McDonnell Douglas Corp v. Green, 1973
- Albemarle Paper v. Moody, 1975
- Washington v. Davis, 1976
- Regents of California v. Bakke, 1978
- United Steelworkers v. Weber, 1979
- Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 1986
- Johnson v. Santa Clara County Transportation Agency, 1987
- Martin v. Wilks, 1988
- Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, 1990
- Harris v. Forklift Systems, 1993
- Taxman v. Board of Education of Piscataway, 1993
- St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, 1993
- McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co., 1995
- Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 1998, and Ellerth v. Burlington Northern Industries, 1998
- Kolstad v. American Dental Association, 1999
- Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, 2003
- Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams, 2001
- General Dynamics Land Systems v. Cline, 2004
- Ricci v. DeStefano, 2009
- Protected class
Discrimination
- Disparate (or “adverse”) treatment
- Disparate (or “adverse”) impact
- Bottom-line approach
- “Four-fifths” rule:
- Perpetuating past discrimination
Harassment:
- Sexual harassment
- Quid pro quo sexual harassment
- Hostile work environment sexual harassment
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
- Charge
- Charging party
- Complainant
- Plaintiff
- Respondent
- Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs)
- Reasonable cause
- Right to sue letter
- Relief
- Remedies
- Back pay
- Front pay
- Job analysis
- Job description
- Job specifications
- Job competencies
- Knowledge
- Skills
- Abilities
- KSAs
- Essential and nonessential job functions
- Job specifications (or “specs”)
- Credentials
- Recruiting
- Selection
- Employer branding
- Relevant labor market
- Selection criteria
- Internal and external recruiting
- Job posting
- Job bidding
- Succession planning
- Social media
Employment agencies
- Employment agencies — state
- Employment agencies —temporary
- Private employment agencies (also known as private search firms
- Contingency employment agencies/search firms
- Retained employment agencies/search firms
- Employee referral
- Nontraditional staffing alternatives
- Outsourcing
- Request for Proposal (RFP)
Preemployment testing
- Agility tests
- Aptitude tests
- Assessment center
- Cognitive ability tests
- Integrity, or honesty, tests
- Medical tests
- Personality tests
- Preemployment drug testing
- Prepromotion drug testing
- Yield ratio
- Cost per hire
- Turnover analysis
- Employment application
- Résumés
- Short- form employment applications
- Long- form employment applications
- Job- specific employment applications
- Weighted employment applications
Interview
- Directive interviews
- Nondirective interviews
- Phone interviews
- Prescreen interviews
- Behavior-based interviews
- Stress interviews
- One-on-one versus panel/team interviews
- Nonverbal communication cues (“nonverbals”)
Interviewer errors
- Contrast error
- First impression error
- Halo error
- Horns error
- Leniency error
- Strictness error
- Recency error
- Similar-to-me error
- Realistic job previews (RJP)
- Background checks
- Employment contracts
- Onboarding (also referred to as “employee orientation”)
- Relocation
- Involuntary terminations
- Layoffs
- Voluntary terminations
- Constructive discharge
- Wrongful termination/discharge
- Exit interviews
- Severance packages
- EAP
- Outplacement support
- Severance package
Affirmative Action Plan (AAP)
- Designation of responsibility
- Organizational display or workforce analysis
- Job group analysis
- Availability analysis
- Utilization analysis
- Placement goals
- Action- oriented programs
- Identification of problem areas
- Internal audit and reporting system
- Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), 1974
- VETS-100/VETS 100A
- Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890
- Equal Pay Act, 1963
- Lag the market
- Lead the market
- Match the market