The US Department of Transportation Requires Testing for Safety -Sensitive Employees

question 49

Multiple Choice

The U.S. Department of Transportation requires testing for safety -sensitive employees in the transportation industry.

• A)preemployment
• B)reasonable suspicion
• C)postaccident
• D)return-to-duty
• E)all of the above

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Definitions:

Korematsu V. United States

1944 Supreme Court case that found Executive Order 9066 to be constitutional. Fred Korematsu, an American-born citizen of Japanese descent, defied the military order that banned all persons of Japanese ancestry from designated western coastal areas. The Court upheld Korematsu’s arrest and internment.

Japanese Internment

The forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals in camps during World War II by the United States government.

Loyalty Oaths

Pledges or statements affirming allegiance to a government or country, often required by employers, especially in periods of political scrutiny or conflict.

Japanese-American Internment

Policy adopted by the Roosevelt administration in 1942 under which 110,000 persons of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens, were removed from the West Coast and forced to spend most of World War II in internment camps; it was the largest violation of American civil liberties in the twentieth century.