| Word | Description |
| Gag clause | Refers to the employment contract restrictions used as a means of protecting the organization’s trade secrets or proprietary information. |
| Gainsharing plan | A group incentive plan used to enhance productivity by sharing with a group a percentage of the gains the organization realizes from specific group efforts. |
| Garnishment | A court order requiring an employer to withhold a certain percentage from an employee’s pay in order to settle a debt with a creditor. |
| Garrity Rights | The rights available to any public employee, under the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination in a criminal context. |
| Gay | The adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, emotional, and/or spiritual attractions are to people of the same sex. |
| Gender Expression | External manifestation of one's gender identity, usually expressed through "masculine," "feminine," or gender-variant behavior, clothing, haircut, voice, or body characteristics. Typically, transgender people seek to make their gender expression match their gender identity, rather than match their birth-assigned sex. |
| Gender Identity | One's internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or boy or girl). For transgender people, their birth-assigned sex and their own internal sense of gender identity do not match. |
| General counsel | An individual appointed by the President to the FLRA. The General Counsel is responsible for investigating Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) allegations, filing and prosecuting ULP complaints and exercising other powers prescribed by the FLRA. |
| General strike | A strike action by all or most of the employees in a specific community, city, region or country. |
| Generalist | An individual who possesses the capabilities to perform more than one diversified function, rather then specializing in or having responsibility for one specific function. |
| Generation I | The term used to describe children born after 1994 who are growing up in the Internet age. |
| Generation X | The term used to describe individuals born between 1965 and 1980. |
| Generation Y | The term used to describe individuals born between 1985 and the present. |
| Genetic-based discrimination | The practice of requesting or requiring genetic testing information during the hiring process or using genetic testing information to base any other employment decisions or actions. |
| Geographical differential | The variance in pay established for same or comparable jobs based on variations in labor and costs of living among other geographic regions. |
| Glass ceiling | Used to describe the invisible barrier keeping women from advancing into executive-level positions. |
| Glass Ceiling Act of 1991 | An act meant to raise public awareness regarding the underutilization of females and minorities in certain positions within the U.S. workforce and eliminate barriers preventing advancement. |
| Global compensation | Pay practices relating to employees who are working on assignments in international locations. A service premium and additional incentives are often included in the compensation package to offset differences in taxes and cost of living. |
| Global relocation | The process of transferring an individual’s residence from the United States to a foreign country for the purpose of completing an international job assignment. |
| Globalization | The term used to describe increasingly mobile organizations that are performing their operations in foreign countries. |
| Goal | A statement outlining the long-term results, accomplishments or objectives an organization seeks to attain. |
| Goal achievement | How well a contractor has progressed toward meeting employment or promotion targets set to correct underutilization of protected class members. |
| Goal setting | The process of setting and assigning a set of specific and attainable goals to be met by an individual, group or organization. |
| Goals | Goals under the Executive Order are of two kinds: percentage placement goals and goals by organizational unit. |
| Gold-collar employee | The term used to describe individuals such as scientists, engineers and other highly skilled employees who are in high demand and short supply. |
| Good -faith bargaining | The principles applied to conducting negotiations where two parties meet and confer at reasonable times with open minds and the intention of reaching an agreement. |
| Good Cause | A. A legally acceptable defense (usually put forward by a contractor against whom OFCCP has alleged a violation of its regulations) for not having taken an action that would otherwise be required. B. Justification provided by a complainant, and found acceptable by OFCCP, as the basis for accepting an otherwise untimely complaint filing. See 41 CFR 60-1.21, 250.26 and 741.26 |
| Good faith bargaining | The principles applied to conducting negotiations where two parties meet and confer at reasonable times with open minds and the intention of reaching an agreement. |
| Good faith effort | The effort and action an organization puts forth to correct goals and specific problem areas. |
| Good Faith Efforts | This term refers to a contractor's efforts to make all aspects of its affirmative action plan work. Designing and implementing an effective affirmative action plan requires sustained attention. The contractor must analyze its employment and recruitment practices as they affect equal opportunity, identify problem areas, design and implement measures to address the problems, and monitor the effectiveness of its program, making adjustments as circumstances warrant. In evaluating the contractor's good faith efforts, the EOS must make a careful assessment of the quality and thoroughness of the contractor's work to implement its program and assure equal opportunity. The basic components of good faith efforts are (1) outreach and recruitment measures to broaden candidate pools from which selection decisions are made to include minorities and women and (2) systematic efforts to assure that selections thereafter are made without regard to race, sex, or other prohibited factors. |
| Government Contract | Any agreement or modification thereof between any contracting agency and any person for the furnishing of supplies or services, or for the use of real or per-sonal property, including lease arrangements. The term "services," as used here, includes, but is not limited to, the following: utility, construction, transporta-tion, research, insurance, and fund depository, regard-less of whether the Government is the purchaser or seller. The term "Government Contract" does not include (a) agreements in which the parties stand in the relationship of employer and employee and (b) Federally assisted construction contracts. See 41 CFR 60-1.3, 250.2 and 741.2. |
| Government-wide regulations | Regulations issued by an agency bearing on conditions of employment that must be complied with by other agencies. |
| Graded vesting | A schedule used for vesting purposes, in which the vesting occurs over a period of five to 15 years. |
| Grandfather clause | A provision of a contract exempting employees who are on the employer’s payroll prior to a specified date will not be subject to the terms of the new contract. |
| Grapevine | An informal communication channel used to transmit information or rumors from one person to another. |
| Green card | A card issued in accordance with immigration laws to an alien granting him or her the right to become a lawful permanent resident of the United States, including the right to work legally. |
| Greenfield Operation | A new operation that is built from “the ground up”. |
| Grievance | A formal complaint or allegation by an employee or group of employees made to unfair treatment or violation of a union contract. |
| Grievance arbitration | Also referred to as grievance mediation, it is a proactive, voluntary process, which utilizes an arbitrator to assist and issue a binding resolution of grievances over the application or interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement. |
| Grievance procedures | The process and guidelines to be followed by employees, management or the union when resolving differences or conflicts. |
| Gross national product (GNP) | The total dollar value of all final goods and services produced for consumption in society during a particular time period. Its rise or fall measures economic activity based on the labor and production output within a country. |
| Gross product margin | The difference between the price a certain product is sold at and the cost of producing the product. |
| Group dynamics | The social manner in which people interact with each other within a group. |
| Group grievance | A grievance signed by many people in a workplace in order to show management that members are collectively opposed to a management's action. |
| Group interview | An interviewing method where a prospective employee is interviewed by a small group of his or her peers. |
| Group outplacement | Used as a cost-cutting measure, it incorporates the same principles as individual outplacement benefits (i.e., providing job counseling, training and other services to displaced employees) with the exception that counseling is performed on a group vs. individual basis. |
| Guaranteed annual wage plan (GAW) | A formal arrangement whereby an employer agrees to provide employees with a guaranteed minimum of income for a particular year. |