Recruitment Guide: Category Glossary
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Applicant tracking technology
Benefits and healthcare
Compensation and wages
Compliance
Disability
Hiring
Human resources
- After-acquired evidence
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- Anti-Nepotism Policy
- Attrition
- Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)
- Bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)
- Compensatory time-off plan
- Compressed workweek
- Conciliation agreement
- Condition of employment
- Conflict of interest
- Demotion
- Disciplinary action
- Disciplinary layoff
- Downgrading
- Downshifting
- Drug testing
- Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Employer
- Employer Information Report EEO-1
- Employment agreement/contract
- Employment-at-will
- Employment practice
- Employment practices liability audit
- Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI)
- Employment Visas
- Executive development
- Fetal protection policy
- Flexible scheduling
- Flextime
- Full-time equivalent (FTE)
- Gag clause
- Green Card
- Human resource auditing
- Human resource development
- Human resource management
- Human resource planning
- Human resources
- Human resource metrics
- Implied contract
- Informed consent
- Injunction
- Insubordination
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Labor certification
- Labor law posting
- Layoff
- Material safety data sheet (MSDS)
- Mission statement
- Mitigation
- Multi-employer plan
- Occupational disease
- Ombudsperson
- Oral reprimand
- Plan administrator
- Policy
- Policy/procedures manual
- Prepaid Group Legal Plan
- Pre-tax contributions
- Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
- Reprimand
- Restructuring
- Retaliatory discharge
- Retraining
- Right-to-know
- Simple Plan
- Social Security
- Social Security card
- Stakeholder
- Unsafe acts
- Unsafe conditions
- Vacation Buy-Back plan
- Virtual HR
- Vision statement
- Voluntary reduction in hours
- Volunteerism
Human resources technology
Interviewing
Jobs and job posting
Legal
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
- Arbitration
- Attorney
- Breach of contract
- Burden of proof
- Child-labor law
- Confidentiality agreement
- Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985
- Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968
- Disqualifying income
- Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988
- Employment Torts
- Equal Pay Act of 1963
- Executive order
- Executive Order 11246 of 1965
- Expedited arbitration
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) of 1969
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966
- Garnishment
- Glass Ceiling Act of 1991
- Hazard Communication Standard of 1988
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996
- Illegal immigrant/alien
- Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986
- Intellectual property
- Libel
- Mandatory Retirement Age Law of 1978
- Mediation
- Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) of 1996
- Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) of 1990
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978
- Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
- Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMCSO)
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Right-to-sue Letter
- Right-to-work
- Safe harbor regulations
- Statute of limitation
- Waiver
- Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989
- Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
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Skills
Sourcing
Staffing
Types of leave
Types of workers and employment
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