ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA)		Amendments to U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act covering the definition of individuals regarded as having a disability, mitigating measures, and other rules to guide the analysis of what constitutes a disability.
Adverse impact		Factor (such as religion, gender, national origin, etc.) that is reasonably necessary, in the normal operations of an organization, to carry out a particular job function.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)		Type of discrimination that occurs when an applicant or employee is treated differently because of his or her membership in a protected class.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)		First comprehensive U.S. law making it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Annualized loss expectancy (ALE)		U.S. act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose health-care coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.
Bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)		U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.
Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth		Expected monetary loss for an asset due to a risk over a one-year period; calculated by multiplying single loss expectancy by annualized rate of occurrence.
Civil Rights Act of 1964		Type of discrimination that results when a policy that appears to be neutral has a discriminatory effect; also known as adverse impact.
Civil Rights Act of 1991		U.S. act that prohibits discrimination against a qualified individual with a disability because of his/her disability.
Comparable worth		U.S. act that expands the possible damage awards available to victims of intentional discrimination to include compensatory and punitive damages; gives plaintiffs in cases of alleged discrimination the right to a jury trial.
Conflict of interest		U.S. law that requires federal contractors with contracts of $100,000 or more as well as recipients of grants from federal government to certify that they are maintaining a drug-free workplace.
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)		Type of discrimination that results when a policy that appears to be neutral has a discriminatory effect; also known as disparate impact.
Contingency plan		Concept that jobs filled primarily by women that require skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions comparable to similar jobs filled primarily by men should have the same classifications and salaries.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)		U.S. act that prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of age.
Disparate impact		Task force created to define a diversity and inclusion initiative and guide the development and implementation process.
Disparate treatment		Situation in which a person or organization may benefit from undue influence due to involvement in outside activities, relationships, or investments that conflict with or have an impact on the employment relationship or its outcomes.
Diversity council		Protocol that an organization implements when an identified risk event occurs.
Drug-Free Workplace Act		Varying ways an organization can create value, looking beyond traditional profit measures of revenue and expenses; includes such areas as philanthropy, volunteerism, corporate-sponsored community programs, social change, sustainability, corporate governance, employee rights, and workplace safety.