Managers or Supervisors Who Retaliate in Any Way Against Employees

question 71

Multiple Choice

Managers or supervisors who retaliate in any way against employees who have brought complaints under the Human Rights Act:

• A)are committing a criminal act.
• B)may legally do so.
• C)may legally do so as long as the employee doesn't complain.
• D)may do so with the approval of the firm's human resource department.
• E)may do so with the approval of the Human Rights Commission.

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Definitions:

Partially Disclosed Principal

A principal whose identity is not known by a third party, although the third party is aware that the agent is making an agreement on behalf of a principal. Also called unidentified principal.

Apparent Authority

A form of authority that a third party perceives to exist based on the principal’s behavior, even if no actual authority has been granted by the principal to the agent.

Agency Relationship

A legal arrangement in which one party, the agent, is authorized to act for another, the principal, in business transactions.

Principal

In finance, the original sum of money borrowed or invested, excluding any interest or profit. In legal contracts, the party who authorizes an agent to act on their behalf.