Reference no: EM132193009

1. Which of the following is true about the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?

The overtime rate under the FLSA is two and a half times the employee's hourly rate.

It requires federal contractors to pay "prevailing wage rates."

It permits a subminimum training wage equal to 95 percent of the minimum wage.

Nonexempt employees are covered by FLSA and include most hourly workers.

Under the FLSA, executive, professional, and administrative employees are considered nonexempt employees.

2. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 requires employers:

to offer disability plans with pregnancy-related coverage.

to offer disability plans to treat pregnancy as they would any other disability.

to provide up to six weeks of paid leave to either parent upon the birth of a child.

to provide up to six weeks of unpaid leave to either parent upon the birth of a child.

to offer disability leave up to one month to either parent before the birth of a child.

3. When CEO pay is compared with the pay of the organization's lowest-level employees, the resulting ratio has been on the rise for more than two decades, surpassing _____ at large U.S. corporations in 2007.

100:1

200:1

500:1

700:1

400:1

4. According to the text, identify the occupational categories that are the nation's lowest-placed earners, in terms of median annual earnings.

Architects and engineers

Installation, maintenance, and repair operations

Health care support workers

Production occupations

Computer and mathematical operations