Exam 1: The Need for Payroll and Personnel Records

The employer is required by the FLSA to display a poster that informs employees of the provisions of the law.

The requisition for personnel form is sent to the Payroll Department so that the new employee can be properly added to the payroll.

By the use of executive orders, the federal government has banned discrimination in employment on government contracts.

The payroll register is a separate payroll record that is kept on each employee.

ERISA provides for full vesting of the employer's contribution to an employee's pension fund in three years or gradually over:

Only one state has passed a law to provide disability benefits to employees absent from their jobs due to illness, accident, or disease not arising out of their employment.

Which of the following acts deals with the minimum wage paid to laborers for contractors on federal government construction contracts?

Under ERISA, if there is a pension plan, every employee is eligible after reaching age 21 or completing one year of service, whichever is later.

The tax paid to the federal government for unemployment taxes is used for paying state and federal administrative expenses of the unemployment program.

Form I-9 must be completed by each new hire.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects all employees from arbitrary dismissal.

Under the Federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, every employer is required to report the name, address, and social security number of each new employee to the appropriate state agency.

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.

All states have set their minimum wage to be the same as the federal government.

Questions pertaining to religion, gender, national origin, or age are allowed on application forms when these are bona fide occupational qualifications for a job.

The current minimum wage set by the Fair Labor Standards Act is $7.25 per hour.

A payroll register lists all employees who have earned remuneration, the amount of remuneration, the deductions, and the net amount paid for each pay period.

Employers are now required to photocopy new employees' Form I-9 documents.

Which of the following is not a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?

Which of the following forms is used to notify the Payroll Department to add a new employee to the payroll?