Exam 18: Employment Law

Any employee who works more than ten hours on a given day must be paid overtime.

An employer who wishes to submit an H-1B application must show that the hiring will not adversely affect other workers similarly employed.

GameCraft, Inc., employs four hundred workers at three locations in three states. Workers who lose their jobs with GameCraft have a right to continued health-care coverage under the company's group plan for a limited period of time unless they

Race can never be a bona fide occupational qualification.

Under the ADA, if a job applicant or an employee with a disability, with reasonable accommodation, can perform essential job functions, the employer must make the accommodation.

Following leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, only key employees must be restored to their original or a comparable position.

Analytic Projections, Inc., a data analysis firm, wants to hire Benazir, a noncitizen. A work visa is most likely to be set aside for a noncitizen if

The distribution of promotions and other job benefits according to a seniority system is never a good defense to a suit for employment discrimination.

Compensatory damages are not available in cases of intentional discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

Refer to Fact Pattern 18-1. To succeed with an age-discrimination claim against MVMC, Lomax will have to show that

Freeman is an employee of Guitar & Drum Company. Guitar & Drum's employee manual states that workers, such as Freeman, will be dismissed only for good cause. With respect to the employment-at-will doctrine, this is

Jon, a paraplegic, applies for a job as a disk jockey with radio station KLKT. The station's manager says, "Sorry, man. You meet all our requirements. But we need someone who can move around the broadcast studio without accommodation." Most likely, Jon could recover from the station under