Week 10 Ethics of IT organisations

A _________________ hires the employees of its clients and then assumes responsibility for all human resource functions. If this arrangement is terminated, the workers continue to be employed by the client company.

• temporary staffing firm

• professional employer organization (PEO)

• employee leasing firm

• temporary employment agency

__________________ is one in which two employers have legal rights and duties with respect to the same employee or group of employees.

• coemployment relationship

• twoemployee relationship

• twoemployers relationship

• groupemployees relationship

Which of the following is not an advantage for organizations that employ contingent workers?

• The company can release contingent workers when they are no longer needed.

• Training costs are kept to a minimum.

• Contingent workers provide a way to meet fluctuating staffing needs.

• The contingent worker ’ s experience may be useful to the next firm that hires him or her.

Which of the following statements indicate that the worker is not an independent contractor?

• No federal income tax, Social Security tax, or Medicare taxes are withheld from his paycheck.

• The worker is protected by workplace safety and employment anti discrimination laws.

• He is not eligible for unemployment compensation benefits.

• The worker sets his own work hours.

The National Labor Relations Act, Civil Rights Act, Air Labor Standards, and Employee Retirement Income Security Act each all have a uniform, consistent definition of employee and the same way of distinguishing between employees and independent contractors. True or False?

• True

• False

The top country of birth for H-1B workers in the United States in 2015 was

• Canada

• Mexico

• China

• India

Which group of foreign workers is not exempt from the annual cap on the number of H-1B visas granted?

• Scientists hired to teach at U.S. universities.

• Those hired to work in government research labs.

• Those hired to work in nonprofit organizations.

• Programmers and engineers hired to work at private technology companies.

Which of the following statements is not true?

• All companies that employ H-1B workers are required to offer a wage not less than 95 percent of the average salary for the occupation.

• Congress sets an annual cap on the number of H-1B visas to be granted — although the number of visas issued often varies greatly from this cap due to various exceptions.

• Companies cannot use an H-1B worker classified as an entry-level IT employee to fill the position of a higher paid experienced worker.

• Companies with 15 percent or more of their workers on H-1B visas can use those workers to replace U.S. workers if those workers are paid at least $60,000 per year.

It appears that the current supply of U.S. computer and information science graduates exceeds the long-term BLS forecast of new job openings. True or False?

• True

• False

Coemployment legal problems with offshore outsourcing are minimal because __________________________.

• the primary rational for outsourcing is to lower costs

• the company that contracts for the services does not generally supervise or control the contractor ’ s employees

• the services are provided by an organization whose employees are in a foreign country

• the IT professionals involved can do their work anywhere — on a company ’ s premises or thousands of miles away