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The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act:

Mary and Bob are part of the cheese production team at the Heath Dairy. All of the team members share a harmonious work relationship. However, a calendar featuring a semi-nude woman in a sexually suggestive pose on Bob’s desk makes Mary uncomfortable. She asks Bob to remove it, but Bob does not oblige, insisting that he has been getting that same brand of calendar for five years and sees no reason to replace it now. To file and prevail on a sexual harassment claim, Mary must prove that:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 permits employer actions that discriminate based on race-linked illness.

Anna City Hospital, a private hospital, employs five workers of Middle Eastern descent in its maintenance department. Though they were told that they would be performing different tasks on a rotation basis, the maintenance supervisor assigns only the five of them, out of the total 20 maintenance employees, to clean the morgue and the basement every time. Although they requested the hospital’s management to change their duties, no changes were made. Which of the following holds true in this case?

Under the common-law agency test, the most critical factor in determining employee status is whether a(n):

Regressive discipline involves a set of steps taken before an employee will be terminated for poor performance.

In the context of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), individual coverage refers to the protections offered to:

According to the employment-at-will doctrine, only the employee (not the employer) is free to leave at virtually any time for any reason.

In the context of discrimination in employee selection procedures, which of the following is true of the four-fifths rule?

As per the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: