Deck 1: The Need for Payroll and Personnel Records

Question 1

The FLSA provides health insurance for the aged and disabled (Medicare).

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. government is classified as  an exempt employer.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

One of the provisions of coverage of the Civil Rights Act is that the employer must have 15 or more workers.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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

Question 5

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.

Question 6

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

Question 7

Each state imposes an income tax on employees that is 2 percent of gross wages.

Question 8

The FLSA imposes no recordkeeping requirements on employers.

Question 9

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

Question 10

Only six states do not impose a state unemployment tax on employers in their state.

Question 11

Employers not subject to Title VII coverage may come within the scope of the Civil Rights Act by reason of a contract or subcontract involving federal funds.

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

Under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, the Medicare portion of the tax is only paid by the employer.

Question 15

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.

Question 16

The Fair Labor Standards Act is commonly known as the Federal Wage and Hour Law.

Question 17

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

Question 18

The Self-Employment Contributions Act imposes a tax on the net earnings from self-employment derived by an individual from any trade or business.

Question 19

In order for the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act to protect laborers for contractors who furnish materials to any agency of the United States, the contract amount must be at least $15,000.

Question 20

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

Question 21

FUTA was designed to ensure that workers who are covered by pension plans receive benefits from those plans.

Question 22

If an investigative consumer report is being issued, the applicant must be given a written notice that the information obtained will be used in the employment decision.

Question 23

The trend toward outsourcing of payroll operations has weakened in recent years.

Question 24

The amounts needed for the payroll entries in the journal come from the employee's earnings record .

Question 25

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

Question 26

There are no states that allow employees to access their personnel files.

Question 27

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.

Question 28

Under FMLA, the time off must be used in one uninterrupted period of  time.

Question 29

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

Question 30

Employment application forms are usually discarded when the applicant is hired.

Question 31

Asking applicants for their arrest records is illegal.

Question 32

The total cost of workers' compensation insurance is borne by the employees.

Question 33

ERISA provides for full vesting of the employer's contributions in three years or gradually over six.

Question 34

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.

Question 35

The Affordable Care Act does not make a distinction between large and small employers.

Question 36

Under the Affordable Care Act, employers with 50 or more full-time employees during the previous year are required to provide health insurance coverage for all full-time employees.

Question 37

Workers' compensation insurance premiums for employers vary according to the different degrees of danger in various classes of jobs and the employers' accident experience rate.

Question 38

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

Question 39

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, employers can exempt an employee who has not worked for the employer for at least one year and has worked for the company for at least 1,250 hours in the last year.

Question 40

Under ERISA, vesting conveys to employees the right to share in a retirement fund in the event they are terminated before the normal retirement age.

Question 41

The E-Verify program is a system to check the:

A) Age of new hires
B) Vesting status of all employees
C) Health status of employees on medical leave
D) Social Security status of new hires
E) Employment eligibility of new hires

Question 42

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

A) Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act
B) Fair Labor Standards Act
C) McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act
D) Occupational Safety and Health Act
E) Davis-Bacon Act

Question 43

Which of the following acts levies a tax on employers and employees that is credited to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors' Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund?

A) Federal Income Tax Act
B) Federal Insurance Contributions Act
C) Fair Labor Standards Act
D) Federal Unemployment Tax Act
E) Employee Retirement Income Security Act

Question 44

Which of the following levies a graduated tax on the earnings of most employees and is deducted from their gross pay?

A) Income tax withholding laws
B) Federal Unemployment Tax Act
C) Fair Labor Standards Act
D) Federal Insurance Contributions Act
E) Employee Retirement Income Security Act

Question 45

Form I-9, which is completed by each employee, deals with:

A) contributions to individual retirement accounts.
B) verification of employment eligibility.
C) eligibility for unemployment benefits.
D) eligibility for Medicare benefits.
E) none of the above.

Question 46

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act provides protection to virtually all workers over the age of:

A) 50.
B) 65.
C) 70.
D) 75.
E) 40.

Question 47

What tax act levies a tax on employers to pay state and federal administrative expenses of the unemployment program?

A) Federal Income Tax Act
B) Federal Unemployment Tax Act
C) Federal Wage and Hour Law
D) Estate Unemployment Tax Acts
E) Workers' Compensation Laws

Question 48

Which of the following is part of the Family and Medical Leave Act for the employer:

A) Must provide for 9 months of unpaid leave
B) Must allow all employees to take the leave
C) Must pay the employee 50% of their salary during the leave
D) Must continue the employee's health-care coverage during the leave
E) All of the above

Question 49

The Fair labor Standards Act has set the current minimum hourly rate of pay at:

A) $10.00
B) $7.25
C) $7.75
D) $5.00
E) $8.50

Question 50

Which of the following laws establishes the minimum wage?

A) Fair Labor Standards Act
B) Federal Income Tax Act
C) Federal Insurance Contributions Act
D) Federal Unemployment Tax Act
E) Fair Employment Laws

Question 51

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is referred to as the:

A) Wage and Hour Act
B) Social Security Act
C) Age Discrimination Act
D) Equal Employment Opportunity Act
E) Immigration Reform Act

Question 52

Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, is required due to which of the following acts:

A) Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
B) Civil Rights Act of 1964
C) Age Discrimination in Employment Act
D) Americans with Disabilities Act
E) None of the above

Question 53

Employers can exempt the following from the provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act:

A) All salaried employees
B) Employees with less than a five year tenure with the employer
C) All employees under the age of 30
D) All employees earning the minumum wage
E) Highest-paid 10 percent of their workforce

Question 54

All of the following are covered by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act except:

A) Labor Unions
B) An employer with 15 employees
C) State government employees (other than elected officials)
D) Employment Agencies
E) All of the above are covered

Question 55

Which of the following Acts established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?

A) Americans with Disabilities Act
B) Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
C) Civil Rights Act of 1964
D) Age Discrimination in Employment Act
E) None of the above

Question 56

Which of the following acts deals with the unpaid leave for a family or medical emergency?

A) Fair Labor Standards Act
B) Occupational Safety and Health Act
C) Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
D) Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act
E) None of the Above

Question 57

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

A) ten years.
B) five years.
C) six years.
D) seven years.
E) No gradual vesting is allowed.

Question 58

Which of the following is a part of the social security program?

A) Federal unemployment taxes (FUTA)
B) State income tax withholding
C) Medicare
D) Federal income tax withholding
E) All are part of the social security program

Question 59

Which of the following is not part of the social security program?

A) Federal Income Tax Law
B) Federal Old-Age and Survivors' Trust Fund
C) Medicare
D) Self-Employment Contributions Act
E) All are part of the social security program

Question 60

Which of the following is a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?

A) Sets up minimum wage
B) Tax on net earnings of self-employed individuals
C) Allows discrimination in hiring
D) Separate tax on employees and employers
E) All are provisions of the FLSA

Question 61

Which of the following is included in a job description?

A) Essential and nonessential duties
B) Education, credentials required
C) Necessary skills
D) Job title
E) All of the above

Question 62

Employers' photocopying of new employees' I-9 documents is not required under the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

Question 63

The Federal Income Tax Withholding Law requires that all employment data be kept on file permanently.

Question 64

In cases where both federal and state regulations cover the minimum wage for the same employee, the higher of the two rates is always used as the standard minimum wage.

Question 65

Criminal background checks can be used by employers on all job applicants.

Question 66

Pre-hire questions pertaining to religion, gender, national origin, or age are allowed if:

A) all employees are asked the same questions.
B) only foreign-born applicants are asked these questions.
C) these factors are bona fide occupational qualifications for the job.
D) they are not in written form.
E) the applicant is married.

Question 67

Which of the following records lists all employees who earn remuneration, the amount of remuneration, the deductions, and the net amount paid for each payroll period?

A) Employee history record
B) Payroll register
C) Change in payroll rate form
D) Reference inquiry form
E) None of the above

Question 68

The Fair Labor Standards Act sets the current minimum wage at $7.50 per hour.

Question 69

Which of the following laws protect employees against losses due to work-related injury:

A) Workers' Compensation
B) Federal Wage and Hour
C) Family and Medical Leave
D) State Disability
E) Federal Unemployment

Question 70

The Affordable Care Act defines applicable large employers (ALEs) as employers with:

A) 15 or more full-time employees during the previous year.
B) 1 or more full-time employees during the previous year.
C) 200 or more full-time employees during the previous year.
D) 50 or more full-time employees during the previous year.
E) 200 or more full- and part-time employees during the previous year.

Question 71

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects virtually all workers, but only to the age of 70.

Question 72

Unions and employment agencies are excluded from coverage under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Question 73

Which of the following is not allowed as part of a company's pre-hire inquiries:

A) Past employment and experience records
B) Social security numbers
C) Lie detector tests
D) Educational background
E) List of references

Question 74

Which of the following is not part of the records employers keep in employee files?

A) Regular rate of pay
B) Gender
C) Wages subject to tax for the calendar year
D) Health care account withdrawals
E) None of the above.

Question 75

The Federal Insurance Contributions Act covers restrictions on the employment of child labor.

Question 76

Which of the following is a multicolumn form used to assemble and summarize the data needed at the end of each payroll period?

A) Payroll register
B) Reference inquiry form
C) Change in payroll rate form
D) Employee history record
E) None of the above

Question 77

FICA taxes are levied upon employers only.

Question 78

Those records that are required by the various payroll laws must generally be kept on file for only the current year.

Question 79

Which of the following is used to provide a continuous record of the relationship between employer and employee?

A) Change in payroll rate form
B) Employee history record
C) Hiring notice
D) Employee's earnings record
E) None of the above

Question 80

Which of the following acts gives a tax credit to employers for offering health insurance to their employees?

A) Civil Rights Act
B) Fair Labor Standards Act
C) Family and Medical Leave Act
D) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
E) None of the above