Employment Glossary
Employment Law is a complicated topic and there are many terms that can be confusing. We've created this glossary to help you understand the many different legal topics associated with the law like workers compensation. Please browse the list below to see definitions of many common Employment terms. If you don't see the term listed that you're looking for, please use our Ask A Question form and we'll do our best to add the definition to our site.
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Employment Law Glossary
- Affirmative Action
- Age Descrimination Employment Act ADEA
- Agency Worker
- Alternate Dispute Resolution ADR
- Annual Leave
- Arbitration and Employment Law
- At Will Employment
- Auxiliary Aids and Services
- Back Pay
- Cafeteria Plan
- Collective Agreements
- Common Exceptions
- Comparable Worth
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act COBRA
- Constructive Discharge
- Contract of Employment
- Cooperative Store
- Cost of Living Index
- Davis Bacon and Related Acts
- Daywork
- Defined Benefit
- Disciplinary Procedure
- Discretion and Independent Judgment
- Discrimination and Employment Law
- Educational Establishment
- Employee Assistance Program EAP
- Employee stock ownership plan ESOP
- Employment Act
- Employment Discrimination
- Enterprise or Recognized Subdivision
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC
- Equal Pay Act
- Essential Job Functions
- Exempt and Employment Law
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Family Medical Leave Act FMLA
- Fee Basis
- Fringe Benefits
- Front pay
- Garnishment of wages
- Hostile working environment
- Implied contract
- Incentive Pay
- Individual retirement account IRA
- Management
- Mediation and Employment Law
- Minimum wage
- Mitigation
- Moonlighting
- National origin discrimination
- Noncompetition agreement
- Nonexempt and Employment Law
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration OSHA
- Overtime compensation
- Prevailing Wage
- Primary Duty
- Real Wages
- Salary
- Service Contract Act
- Sexual harassment
- Simplified Employee Pension SEP
- Supplemental Unemployment Benefits and Employment Law
- Supported Employment
- Tenant Farmer
- Title V of the Rehabilitation Act
- Title VII
- Trainee
- Undue Hardship
- Whistleblower
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