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- What did the Service Contract Act do?
- It extended prevailing wage and fringe benefit requirements to employers providing services under gov't contracts. In
- Describe the Age Discrimination Act in Employment ADEA.
- It determined older workers may not be discrtiminated against by performance based pay systems.
- What does the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) do?
- It is an income tax credit to encourage employers to hire people from targeted groups. Paid after the 1st 12 months of work
- Who does the Welfare to Work Tax credit apply to?
- Tax credit is given to those employers who hire long-term welfare recipents. A % of the employees wages during the first 1-2 years of employment.
- What does the Equal Pay Act do?
- It prohibits wage discrimination by requiring equal pay for equal work.
- Explain the FLSA Equal Pay act of 1963.
- It is an amendment to the wage and hour law that prohibits uneaqual pay for equal or substantially equal work preformed by men or women.
- Who is burden to prove that a violation of the Equal pay act has been made?
- The employer.
- What are the key provisions of the Equal Pay Act?
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Equal work
Discrimination actions
Exceptions - What four factors define the key provisions of the equal work act?
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Equal skills- KSA's
Equal effort- physical or mental
Equal responsibility- the extent the employer depends on the employee
Equal working conditions - Define comparable worth.
- Holds that jobs filled priiminarly by women should have the same job classification and salary as do similar jobs filled by men. I.e Janitors vs houskeepers
- What are some exceptions to the Equal pay act?
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Merit system
Quanity of work
geographic work differentials
Senority - What did the Davis Bacon Act establish?
- A prevailing wage and fringe benifit requirement for contracts on federally funded projects.
- Describe the Copeland "Anti kickback" act.
- It prohibits federal contractors from receiving kickbacks from employers or subcontractors for wages earned on federal projects.
- What did the Walsh-Healey Act do?
- It extended the concept of prevaling wage to employers who manuf or supply goods under gov't contrats and required time and a half be paid.
- What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?
- This is the wage and hour law. It regulated employee OT status as exempt or nonexempt, child labor, minimum wage, OT pay, recordkeeping and other admin