Author Question: The FTC has the authority to do which of the following: a. investigate suspect business dealings b. ... (Read 38 times)

nelaaney · **on:** Jun 24, 2018

The FTC has the authority to do which of the following:
a. investigate suspect business dealings b. hold hearings instead of trials
c. issue administrative orders that require parties to stop certain business acts d. all of the other specific choices are correct
e. none of the other specific choices are correct

Question 2

Because of past racial discrimination, senior employees at a plant are all white. The junior workers are racially mixed. A reduction in business forces the firm to fire half its workers. To protect the racial composition of the workers, the company will lay off white older workers. This policy is likely to be viewed by the courts as:
a. an illegal violation of a bona fide occupational qualification b. an illegal violation of a bona fide seniority system
c. an illegal violation of the rights of the senior workers that can be corrected by laying-off junior white workers to preserve the jobs of the junior black employees
d. a legal way to create the equivalent of an affirmative action program e. a legal way to preserve the racial mix of the work force