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If the employee is an apprentice, learner, or disabled worker, under certain circumstances, she or he may receive less than the minimum wage if the employer obtains a certificate issued by the Department of Labor’s wage and hour administrator.

Title VII defines sexual orientation to be a particular type of gender discrimination and therefore a protected category.

In Texas, an employer cannot discriminate on the basis of any of the following except:

Employers must make sure that employees are given comparable opportunities to use workplace time and resources for religious practices if given for secular ones, as otherwise it may appear that an employer is discriminating on the basis of religion.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) covers private employers with 5 or more employees.

The Gay Individual Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from both requesting information about an employee’s or applicant’s sexual orientation and considering someone’s sexual orientation in taking any employment action, such as hiring, firing, or promoting.

If a church other place of worship has nonsectarian activities such as a bookstore, it may enjoy the same broad type of freedom to discriminate on the basis of religion since these activities may have religion or propagation of the religion as an integral part of their purpose.

Which of the following acts prohibits health insurers and employers from discriminating against people for flaws or disease risks revealed by genetic testing?

It is an unfair labor practice for unions to cause an employer to discriminate against an employee.

According to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which of the following individuals can be subjected to compulsory retirement based on age?