What should the manager do to reduce the incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace?
A) Create all-male and all-female work teams.
B) Tell all workers who believe they are being harassed to confront the harasser directly and work it out.
C) Provide sensitivity workshops for female employees to desensitize them to the harmless joking and innuendoes common in a primarily female occupation.
D) Take all complaints seriously and actively pursue an investigation of all such complaints.
Question 2What is correct under the 1967 and 1987 Age Discrimination and Employment Acts?
A) Maximum age restrictions were limited for almost all job categories.
B) Employees can be forced to retire at age 70 if their health is poor.
C) Underage minors can be employed up to 20 hours per week.
D) Individuals seeking early retirement (before the age of 60) may be exempt from company pension plans.
Question 3The federal government has just adopted a requirement regarding the handling and exposure of chemotherapy agents. As a supervisor of an oncology unit, why do you believe that you do not need to take action?
A) The state in which you live has another policy that is more restrictive than the federal policy.
B) Your director of nurses told you to ignore the policy.
C) You do not think it will be a problem because your nurses are careful when using chemotherapy agents.
D) Your state has its own policy, which is less restrictive but supersedes the federal policy.
Question 4The Equal Pay Act of 1963 states there are four equal pay tests, which are
A) Equal danger on the job, equal intelligence for hire, equal responsibility, and identical working conditions
B) Equal skill, equal effort, equal responsibility, and similar working conditions
C) Equal job requirements, same working conditions, equal job duties, and equal responsibilities
D) Equal effort, equal working conditions, identical job duties, and equal job requirements
Question 5What is Affirmative Action legislation?
A) Requires a quota system
B) Is aimed at preventing discrimination
C) Actively seeks underemployed groups to fill job vacancies
D) Encourages reverse discrimination
Question 6You are reviewing your employees' timecards before turning them into the payroll department. Part of your responsibility is to certify overtime, which the union specifies is anything over an 8-hour day.
One of your employees attended a mandatory CPR certification class after duty on a day that she worked a full shift. What does this mean the employee should receive?
A) Overtime for the class
B) Regular pay for the class because the hospital was not charging for the class
C) No pay for the class because the regular fee for the class was exempt for employees
D) No pay for the class but should receive equal compensated time back at a later date
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