1. The current minimum wage set by the Fair Labor Standards Act is $5.85 per hour. (Points: 2) True?

[vipponah]

1. The current minimum wage set by the Fair Labor Standards Act is $5.85 per hour. (Points: 2)
True
False


2. All states have set their minimum wage to be the same as the federal government. (Points: 2)
True
False


3. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. government is classified as an exempt employer. (Points: 2)
True
False


4. An exception to the protection that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act provides for all workers over 40 involves executives who are 65 or older and who have held high policy-making positions during the two-year period prior to retirement. (Points: 2)
True
False


5. The tax paid to the federal government for unemployment taxes is used for paying state and federal administrative expenses of the unemployment program. (Points: 2)
True
False


6. FUTA was designed to ensure that workers who are covered by pension plans receive benefits from those plans. (Points: 2)
True
False


7. The cost of workers' compensation insurance is borne by the employees. (Points: 2)
True
False


8. Questions pertaining to religion, gender, national origin, or age are allowed on application forms when these are bona fide occupational qualifications for a job. (Points: 2)
True
False


9. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act provides protection until the age of 70 for virtually all workers. (Points: 2)
True
False


10. Each state imposes an income tax on employees that is 2% of gross wages. (Points: 2)
True
False

[mohammed47]

1. - False. - It's $7.25
http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/minimumwage.htm

2. - False - It differs by state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USMinimumWage.svg

3. - True - See "DEFINITIONS - SEC. 2000e. [Section 701] - (b) - (1)"
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm

4. - True? [ It's hard to tell by the way Q. is written. ] - "(1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit compulsory retirement of any employee who has attained 65 years of age and who, for the 2-year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive or a high policymaking position, if such employee is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit from a pension, profit-sharing, savings, or deferred compensation plan, or any combination of such plans, of the employer of such employee, which equals, in the aggregate, at least $44,000."
http://webapps.dol.gov/search/AdvSearch.aspx?search_term=age%20exemption
Click on "The Age Discrimination Act of 1967" and it will open a document in a new window. Scroll down about 1/2 way to "AGE LIMITS - SEC. 631. [Section 12] - (c) - (1)

There is an Age Discrimination Act of 1975, but it states that nothing in it shall be construed as changing the 1967 act.

[wakeley58]

I'm pretty sure it's higher than 5.85 now...and I know lots of states have it set even higher (up to like 8.50)

[zackary42]

I'm pretty sure it's higher than 5.85 now...and I know lots of states have it set even higher (up to like 8.50)

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that is such an easy and stupid test! what are you studying, stupidity? LOL forgive me lord but these folks are idiots!

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10 is false.

9 is true.

8 true

7 false

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6 is true.

5 is false, i think...

4 has to be true. it's way stupid

3 is false

2 is true (fed law trumps state law)

1 is false.