MGT 468 - Chapter 17 - Government and Legal Issues in Compensation

MGT 468 - JSU - Chapter 17 - Government and Legal Issues in Compensation

executive

The _________ branch, headed by the President, enforces laws through agencies and its other bodies (e.g., the Department of Labor),

judicial

The _______ branch interprets laws and considers their constitutionality.

legislative

The ________ branch may change existing laws or pass new ones.

regulatory environment

The ____________ is also a function of state and local laws, which often cover employers not covered by federal laws and/or include requirements that go beyond federal laws.

Title VII

_________ of the (federal) Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment (including pay) discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, covers employers with 15 or more employees.

race, color, religion, sex, or national origin,

Title VII of the (federal) Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment (including pay) discrimination on the basis of ___________ covers employers with 15 or more employees.

15

Title VII covers employers with ____ or more employees.

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA)

The _______________ covers all employees (with some exceptions, discussed later) of companies engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce.

Minimum wage

Hours of work (including overtime)

Child labor

The FLSA’s major provisions are:

Minimum-wage

____________ legislation is intended to provide an income floor for workers in society’s least productive jobs. When first enacted in 1938, the minimum wage was 25 cents an hour. It has been raised periodically; in 2009, it was raised to $7.25 and has remained there.

Workers Compensation

A form of no-fault insurance, covers injuries/diseases arising from employment.

food/food, retail, financial, transportation/shipping

The industries with the most FLSA claims are ______ services, ___, _____ services/insurance, and ___________.

medical care, temporary or permanent disability payments, survivor benefits, rehabilitation and training

Benefits given for worker compensation include:

Benefits given for worker compensation

The following describe what:

medical care, temporary or permanent disability payments, survivor benefits, rehabilitation and training

False

True or False:
Worker Compensation is covered by federal laws and statutes.

Forty-five

_______ states plus the District of Columbia have their own minimum wages to cover jobs omitted from federal legislation.

$15

A revised Executive Order issued (in preliminary form) in April 2021 requires federal contractors to pay a minimum wage of _____ per hour.

a higher minimum wage, which is intended to help low wage workers, runs the risk of reducing employment opportunities for these very workers it is intended to help.

The concern with higher minimum wages is:

employment opportunities

A higher minimum wage, which is intended to help low wage workers, runs the risk of reducing ____________ for these very workers it is intended to help.

the gains through higher wages are greater than the losses of jobs and/or hours.

Whether a minimum wage “works” or not depends on whether:

the employee who receives them

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, tips are the property of:

the employer must make up the difference during the pay period

If an employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages do not equal the minimum wage:

True

True or False:
Contemporary employers face (1) an increasingly skilled workforce with higher training costs per employee and (2) higher benefits costs, the bulk of which are fixed per employee.

(1) an increasingly skilled workforce with higher training costs per employee and (2) higher benefits costs, the bulk of which are fixed per employee.

Contemporary employers face:

8 ; 12 ; seventh

State laws sometimes go beyond the FLSA. California, for example, requires time and a half pay for working more than ___ hours in a day and double time for working more than ___ hours in a day. It also requires premium pay for working a 12 ____day during a week.

18 ; 16

Under the Child Labor Law, persons under ___ cannot work in hazardous jobs such as meat packing and logging; persons under ___ cannot be employed in jobs involving interstate commerce except for nonhazardous work for a parent or guardian. Additional exceptions and limitations also exist.

sub-Saharan Africa

The highest rates of child labor are in ________, where high population growth, grinding poverty, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic have left a lot of families in need of the income that children can provide

Worker Economic Opportunity Act,

The _____________ a 2000 amendment to FLSA, allows stock options and bonuses to be exempt from inclusion in overtime pay calculations.

Social Security, unemployment compensation, and workers compensation taxes

U.S. employers are legally obligated to pay _______, ____________, and ___________ on wages and salaries on behalf of their employees.

Prevailing wage laws

_____________ set pay for work done to produce goods and services contracted by the federal government.

A government-defined prevailing wage

The minimum wage that must be paid for work done on covered government projects or purchases.

access discrimination

The denial of particular jobs, promotions, or training opportunities to qualified candidates on the basis of sex, race, and other protected classes

Valuation Discrimination

Looks at the pay women and minorities receive for the jobs they perform.

Pay Equity

A broad term, commonly used both as a goal (to eliminate pay discrimination) and to encompass an array of policies/practices intended to reduce/eliminate pay discrimination

Federal Pay , Title VII, and E.O. 11246

The ______ Act, _____ and __________ are other key federal laws in the area of pay equity.