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Glossary Terms A-z

Got questions about sourcing, recruiting, hiring, legal, and human resources terms? We have a comprehensive, searchable glossary below! Search for a specific term or choose a category below.

# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
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  • 401(k)
A
  • Anti-nepotism policy
  • Applicant
  • Affirmative Action Plan (AAP)
  • After-acquire evidence
  • Affected Class
  • Affirmative Action (AA)
  • Affirmative Action Clauses
  • Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
  • Application service provider (ASP)
  • Apprenticeship
  • Arbitration
  • Attorney
  • Attrition
  • Advisory committee
  • Applicant flow data
  • Applicant pool
  • Adverse action
  • Adverse selection
  • Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
  • Applicant tracking
  • Adverse impact
  • At-will Employment
  • Applicant flow log
  • Applicant files
B
  • Blue Collar Workers
  • Back Pay
  • Baldridge National Quality Award
  • Background Check/Investigation
  • Bereavement Leave
  • Benefits
  • Burden of Proof
  • Behavioral-Based Interview
  • Bonus Plan
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
  • Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS)
  • Breach of Contract
  • Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)
  • Bankruptcy
C
  • Core competencies
  • Constructive discharge
  • Consultant
  • Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968
  • Consumer credit report
  • Co-employment
  • Color discrimination
  • Comparable worth
  • Compensatory time-off plan
  • Cultural differences
  • Cultural integration
  • Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985
  • Cafeteria Plan
  • Caucus
  • Curriculum vitae (c.v)
  • Compliance Officer
  • Compliance
  • Confidentiality Agreement
  • Contractor
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Conciliation agreement
  • Competency-based pay
  • Condition of Employment
  • Casual Employment
  • Core work activities
  • Centralization
  • Corporate citizenship (corporate social responsibility)
  • Contingent worker
  • Competencies
  • Compressed workweek
  • Consideration
  • Concurrent Validity
  • Child-Labor Law
D
  • disclosure
  • discretionary bonus
  • discrimination
  • Disability management
  • Disabled individual
  • Disabled Veteran
  • Disciplinary action
  • Disciplinary layoff
  • Damages
  • Defamation
  • Downgrading
  • Diversity
  • Demotion
  • Direct compensation
  • Disparate treatment
  • Domestic Partner Benefits
  • Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988
  • disqualifying income
  • disparate impact
  • Department of Labor (DOL)
  • Disability
  • Displaced workers
  • Downshifting
  • Drug testing
  • Diversity
E
  • Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • employment agency
  • employment agency
  • Employment agreement/contract
  • employment-at-will
  • employment visas
  • equal opportunity clause
  • Equal Treatment
  • Executive compensation
  • Executive development
  • Executive Order
  • Executive Order 11246 of 1965
  • Executive search firm
  • Exempt employees
  • Exit interview
  • Expatriate
  • Expedited arbitration
  • Employment practices liability insurance (EPLI)
  • Employment practices liability audit
  • Employment torts
  • Equal opportunity survey
  • Equal Pay Act of 1963
  • Equal employment opportunity (EEO)
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
  • employment practice
  • EEO-1 category
  • employer
  • Employer information report EEO-1
F
  • Flexible benefit plan
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Flexible staffing
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966
  • Fringe benefit
  • Front pay
  • Full-time equivalent (FTE)
  • Fully insured plan
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) of 1969
  • Fair representation
  • fair representation
  • Fetal Protection Policy
  • Flextime
  • Field Interview
  • Family Status Change
  • Fitness for Duty
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938
  • Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993
G
  • Garnishment
  • Glass Ceiling Act of 1991
  • Good-faith bargaining
  • Green card
  • Grievance
  • Grievance procedures
  • Group interview
  • Gag clause
H
  • Hazard Communication Standard of 1988
  • Hazard pay
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996
  • Health Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
  • Human Resource Auditing
  • Human Resource Development
  • Human Resources
  • Human Resource Management
  • Hostile Environment Harassment
  • Home-Based Worker
  • Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
  • Human resource planning
  • Human resource metrics
  • Human resource management system
I
  • Interview to offer ratio
  • Invitation to self-identify
  • Indirect Labor
  • Indirect costs
  • Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986
  • Independent Contractor
  • Implied Contract
  • Indirect Compensation
  • Informed Consent
  • Illegal immigrant/alien
  • Individual retirement account
  • Interpretive Guidelines on Sexual Harassment
  • Injunction
  • Interview
  • Incentive Pay Plan
  • Intellectual Property
  • Insubordination
  • Incentive Pay
  • Incentive Stock Option
J
  • Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
  • Job aids
  • job analysis
  • Joint Employment
  • Job classification
  • Job offer letter
  • Job codes
  • Job Posting
  • Job Title
  • Job description
  • Job bank
  • Job displacement
  • Job grade
K
  • key performance indicators (KPI)
  • Knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs)
  • knowledge worker
L
  • Labor-Management Contract
  • Layoff
  • Libel
  • Living Wage
  • Long-Term Care Insurance
  • Labor certification
  • labor force
  • Labor Law Posting
M
  • Mandatory Retirement Age Law of 1978
  • Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
  • Mean Wage
  • Median
  • Median wage
  • medicare
  • Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) of 1996
  • Minimum qualifications
  • Minority business enterprise
  • Minorities
  • Mission statement
  • Minimum wage
  • Mitigation
  • Moonlighting
  • Money Purchase Plan
  • Multi-Employer Plan
  • merger
  • mediation
N
  • nontraditional employment
  • National Origin Discrimination
O
  • Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP)
  • Ombudsperson
  • Oral reprimand
  • Occupational disease
  • Open enrollment period
  • Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) of 1990
  • O*Net (Occupational Information Network)
  • Overtime
P
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Parental leave
  • Part-time employee
  • Pay grades
  • Payroll records
  • Policy/procedures manual
  • Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
  • Profit sharing plan
  • Proprietary information
  • Probationary period
  • Paternity leave
  • Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978
  • Protected class
  • Pre-tax contributions
  • Plan Administrator
  • Prescription Drug Benefits
  • Policy
  • Paid leave bank
  • Premium only plan (POP)
  • Probation
  • Prepaid Group Legal Plan
  • Pay adjustment
  • Pay range
  • Prevailing Wage
  • Premium Pay
Q
  • Qualified disabled person
  • Qualified domestic relations order (QDRO)
  • Qualified medical child support order (QMCSO)
  • Quid Pro Quo
R
  • Remote Employees
  • Remote Managers
  • Reprimand
  • Restructuring
  • Retaliatory Discharge
  • Right-to-Work
  • Right-to-Know
  • Retraining
  • Recruitment
  • Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  • Relocation Assistance
  • Reference Checking
  • Retention Bonus
  • Right-to-Sue Letter
  • Regular Full/Part-Time Employee
  • Reverse Discrimination
S
  • Safe Harbor Regulations
  • Salary Compression
  • Salary Grade
  • Salary Range
  • Stakeholder
  • Statute of limitation
  • Sexual harassment
  • Sexual orientation
  • Short-term disability
  • Sick leave
  • SIMPLE Plan
  • Skill
  • Skill-based pay
  • Skill gap
  • Skills inventory
  • Skills training
  • Social Security
  • Soft skills
  • Special disabled veteran
  • Staff leasing
  • Social Security card
  • Staffing metrics
  • Shareholder
  • Staffing
U
  • Unsafe Conditions
  • Unsafe Acts
  • Unskilled Worker
  • Unlawful Employment Practice
  • Union Shop
  • Union
  • Unretirement
  • Unwelcome Behavior/Conduct
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
V
  • Virtual HR
  • Virtual mentoring
  • Virtual office/workplace
  • Vision statement
  • Voluntary leave/layoff
  • Vacation Buy-Back plan
  • Volunteerism
  • Voluntary Reduction in Hours
W
  • Wage and Salary Administration
  • Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989
  • Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1988
  • Workers' compensation
  • Workplace bullying
  • Workplace flexibility
  • Workplace violence
  • Wrongful discharge
  • Wage Curve
  • Wage and Salary Survey
  • Waiver
  • Wage Structure
  • Wage Differential
  • Wage Garnishment
  • Wage Gap
Z
  • Zero-based bonus
  • Zero-based budgeting

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