Career Management Vocabulary – Match the Letter with the CORRECT Definition
- Age Discrimination Act of 1992
- American with Disabilities Act
- Sandwich generation
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
- Criticism
- Destructive criticism
- Unemployment insurance
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Destructive criticism
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Feedback
- Negative feedback
- Positivefeedback
- Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Rehabiltation Act of 1973
______prohibits any employer from refusing to hire, discharge, or otherwise discriminate against any individual because of age.
______gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities that are like those provided to individuals on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications.
______gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events.
______the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
______Criticism performed with the intention to harm someone, derogate and destroy someone’s creation, prestige, reputation and self-esteem.
______a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, genetic information, and retaliation for reporting, participating in, and/or opposing a discriminatory practice
______establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.
______a self-regulatory biological system, as in the synthesis of some hormones, in which the output or response affects the input, either positively or negatively.
______a social health care program for families and individuals with low income and limited resources. The Health Insurance Association of America describes Medicaid as a "government insurance program for persons of all ages whose income and resources are insufficient to pay for health care."
______a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1966, currently using about 30 private insurance companies across the United States. Medicare provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older who have worked and paid into the system
______the diminution or counteraction of an effect by its own influence on the process giving rise to it, as when a high level of a particular hormone in the blood may inhibit further secretion of that hormone, or where the result of a certain action may inhibit further performance of that action.
______the primary federal law which governs occupational health and safety in the private sector and federal government in the United States. It was enacted by Congress in 1970 and was signed by President Richard Nixon on December 29, 1970
______a process that occurs in a feedback loop in which the effects of a small disturbance on a system include an increase in the magnitude of the perturbation; That is, A produces more of B which in turn produces more of A
______prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies, in programs receiving federal financial assistance, in federal employment, and in the employment practices of federal contractors.
______a generation of people who care for their aging parents while supporting their own children.
______programs provide unemployment benefits to eligible workers who become unemployed through no fault of their own, and meet certain other eligibility requirements.
______a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence.