A reduced FMLA leave schedule means which of the following?

The employee works fewer hours each day or week.

Accurate records of time off are maintained.

The employee is absent from work multiple times for the same illness or injury.

The employee works fewer hours each day or week.

The employee's leave schedule is disruptive to the work schedule.

Accurate records of time off are maintained.

The employee is absent from work multiple times for the same illness or injury.

The employee works fewer hours each day or week.

The employee's leave schedule is disruptive to the work schedule.

A company that wants to reduce the cost of its unemployment insurance should do which of the following?Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Terminate employees who violate company policy

Establish an effective performance-management program

Aggressively fight unjustified claims for unemployment

Terminate employees who violate company policy

Establish an effective performance-management program

Aggressively fight unjustified claims for unemployment

Enhance national productivity and competitive ability

Molly is the Director of HR at a large multinational corporation. She extended the open enrollment period for benefits in order to accommodate her spouse, who needed a different plan. This is an example of what?

Breach of fiduciary responsibility

Exercising a choice-of-law clause

A Total Rewards philosophy can help achieve an organization's strategic goals by doing which of the following?

Attracting and retaining employees with the necessary KSAs

Maintaining an entitlement culture

Positioning the company to lead the competition for employees

Establishing a pecking order for jobs in the organization

An entitlement culture is appropriate for a business that needs what type of workforce?

One that continues to show productivity increases over time

One that has a line of sight to retirement

One that continues to show productivity increases over time

One that has a skill set that's in high demand

One that is highly competitive in completing daily assignments

The Older Worker Benefit Protection Act requires that an employee age 40 or older who is asked to waive their rights under the act must be given what?

21 days to consider the agreement before signing it

45 days to consider the agreement before signing it

60 days to consider the agreement before signing it

7 days to consider the agreement before signing it

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 does not require which of the following?

Income tax be withheld from some distributions to rollover accounts

Group health plans honor qualified medical child-support orders

Tax deductions for executive pay be capped at $1,000,000 per year

Income tax be withheld from some distributions to rollover accounts

Group health coverage be offered for children placed for adoption before the adoption is final

Which of the following is the enforcement agency for civil rights?

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Employment Standards Administration

Which of the following is an example of an intrinsic reward?

The satisfaction of a job well done

Which of the following is the enforcement agency for compensation?

Employment Standards Administration

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Employers are required to provide a portable retirement plan to employees based on which of the following?

Retirement benefits are not required by federal law.

Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Retirement benefits are not required by federal law.

Older Worker Benefit Protection Act.

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.

The Federal Insurance Contributions Act requires employers to do which of the following?

Withhold Social Security tax from pay

Provide health insurance for all employees

Contribute to a defined-benefit plan

Contribute to a deferred-compensation plan

Withhold Social Security tax from pay

As a Senior HR Professional, you should be familiar with intrinsic rewards and extrinsic rewards that your company provides for its employees. Which of the following is an example of an intrinsic reward?

Satisfaction from challenging and exciting assignments

Esteem from working with other talented people

An employee earning $22,500 per year supervises three employees and spends 35 hours per week on essential job duties that require discretion and independent judgment. Which of the following describes this employee?

Nonexempt, based on the salary basis requirement

Exempt, based on the administrative exemption test

Exempt, based on the executive exemption test

Nonexempt, based on the salary basis requirement

Which of the following describes salting?

The union hires an individual to apply for a job with an employer and begin to organize the company.

The union hires an individual to picket the employer's business.

The union hires an individual to apply for a job with an employer and begin to organize the company.

The union hires an individual to publicize its reasons for targeting an employer for unionization.

The union hires an individual to distribute leaflets to employees as they are leaving work at the end of the day.

A supervisor has called an employee in for an interview about an inventory shortage. When the supervisor begins asking questions, the employee invokes his Weingarten rights. The supervisor has the option to do which of the following?

Discontinue the interview, and make the determination based on other evidence and documentation.

Continue the interview while waiting for a co-worker to return from lunch.

Stop the discussion while the employee calls an attorney.

Stop the discussion until the shop steward is available upon return from vacation in 4 days.

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