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21. What are Activities of Daily Living (ADL)?
    A: The personal care activities which are essential to an individual’s everyday living, including eating, bathing, grooming, dressing, mobility and toileting.
22. What is an adjunct program?
    A: A supplemental training tool that applies programming principles to existing instructional modules, materials, texts, manuals, etc., that are designed to direct the learner to specific areas within the module.
23. What is an adult learner
    A: Individuals who are beyond postsecondary education age, are employed on a full- or part-time basis and are enrolled in a formal or informal educational program.
24. What is an adverse action?
    A: Any act by an employer that results in an individual or group of individuals being deprived of equal employment opportunities.
25. What is an adverse impact?
    A: A substantially different rate of selection in hiring, promotion or other employment decision that works to the disadvantage of a race, sex or ethnic group.
26. What is an adverse selection?
    A: An employer’s selection practices or policies that result in discriminatory or unfavorable treatment toward an individual or individuals who are members of a protected group.
27. What is an advisory committee?
    A: A group or panel of internal or external members with no decision- making authority, assembled to identify and discuss specific issues and make recommendations.
28. What is an affected class?
    A: Groups of employees, former employees or applicants who have experienced and/or continue to experience the loss of employment opportunities or benefits due to discriminatory practices or policies of the employer.
29. What is Affirmative action (AA)?
    A: Any program, policy or procedure that an employer implements in order to correct past discrimination and prevent current and future discrimination within the workplace.
30. What is Affirmative action clauses?
    A: The clauses set forth in 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-250.4 and 60-741.4 that must be included in federal contracts and subcontracts of $10,000 and over. These two clauses outline the affirmative action requirements for special disabled veterans, Vietnam-era veterans (41 C.F.R. § 60-250.4) ...
31. What is an Affirmative Action plan (AAP)?
    A: A written set of specific, results-oriented procedures to be followed by all federal contractors holding contracts of $50,000 or more and employing 50 or more people and intended to remedy the effects of past discrimination against or underutilization of women and minorities. The effectivenes ...
32. What is Accessible format?
    A: Materials that are designed in alternate formats such as Braille, audiotape, oral presentation or electronically for individuals with visual impairments.
33. What is Accessibility?
    A: The extent to which a contractor's or employer's facility is readily approachable and does not inhibit the mobility of individuals with disabilities, particularly such areas as the personnel office, worksite and public areas.
34. What is cybersmear?
    A: Using Web sites, listservs, chat rooms or bulletin boards to post insulting or defamatory statements regarding former employers.
35. What is deferred compensation?
    A: Payment for services under any employer-sponsored plan or arrangement that allows an employee (for tax-related purposes) to defer income to the future.
36. What is deductive reasoning?
    A: The ability to extract certain rules based on a sequence of experiences or observations and apply those rules to other similar situations.
37. What is defamation?
    A: Injury caused to an individual’s character or reputation resulting from another individual(s) issuing false or malicious statements either verbally or in writing.
38. What is decentralization?
    A: The process of assigning decision-making authority to lower levels within the organizational hierarchy.
39. What is debarment?
    A: An order declaring a contractor ineligible for the award of future contracts or cancellation of current contracts. Debarment is one of the sanctions that can be imposed on a contractor found to be in violation of Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act or Section 4212 of ...
40. What is decertification?
    A: Allows members of a particular bargaining unit to terminate their union representation through a voting process.