PROFESSIONAL IN HUMAN RESOURCES - CALIFORNIA (PHR-CA) OFFICIAL EXAM: 300+ VERIFIED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | HRCI CERTIFICATION ASSESSMENT 2025-2026

Private Attorney Generals Act(PAGA)

a California statute that authorizes aggrieved employees to bring actions for civil penalties on behalf of themselves, other employees, and the State of California against their employers for California Labor Code violations.

Which agency implements laws passed by the California legislature and signed by the governor, and regulations adopted in a rulemaking process?

Department of Industrial Relations

Gender neutrality

he idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures, gender roles, or gender identity) should avoid distinguishing roles according to peoples sex or gender.

interactive process

Interactive Process is the way in which employees, supervisors, and their departments determine whether reasonable accommodation can be made to an employee.

The EDD sends claims for unemployment insurance to the human resources department. HR has how many days to contest the claim?

10 Days

Conciliator

(Informal Process) This person meets with the parties both separately and together in an attempt to resolve their differences. It often happens in a DFEH investigation. They do this by lowering tensions, improving communications, interpreting issues, encouraging parties to explore potential solutions, and assisting parties in finding a mutually acceptable outcome.

Arbitration

(formal process through the courts) settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider

Judge

Administrative Officer

Which division of the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), also referred to as the Labor Commissioner, has the main purpose to ensure that all employees are appropriately paid for work completed in the State of California

Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE)

California Uniform Trade Secret Act

To protect its intellectual property and other assets, which aw addresses the need for California employers to limit access to trade secrets only to individuals with a need to know such information in the performance of their duties

What employers are not required to have an IIPP?

Employers with 10 or less employees

What is the primary source underlying an employees right to privacy in the State of California?

The California Constitution; Article 1, Section 1

Prima Facie

based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise.

According to the Bureau of Labor Standards Statistics, what causes more than 50 percent of all occupational illnesses today?

Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD)

In a major disaster, which is likely to be the lead California state agency for emergency information?

Governor's Office of Emergency Services(OES)

Proposition 65 signs address which of the following?

Potential health risks related to cancer or reproductive harm.

The Corporate Criminal Liability Act of 1989

commonly referred to as "BE a Manager Go to Jail Act," subjects individual managers as well as corporations and limited liability corporations (LLC) to criminal liability for failing to disclose concealed hazards.

he Form 300A summary page should be retained by the employer for the following period:

5 years

This agency licenses and regulates Workers' Compensation insurance carriers and investigates insurance fraud:

California Department of Insurance (CDI)

DWC Form 1(Employee's Claim for Workers' Compensation Benefits)

This form must be furnished if the injury or illness results in medical treatment beyond first aid or in any lost time beyond the injury date.