A Willful Violation of the ADEA Can Result in an Award

question 21

Multiple Choice

A willful violation of the ADEA can result in an award of liquidated damages which is

• A) the total of back pay, front pay and any other unpaid wage liability owed to the employee-plaintiff.
• B) compensation for pain and suffering.
• C) an amount that is equal to any unpaid wage liability and results in a doubling of the unpaid wage liability.
• D) an amount sufficient to punish the wrong doer from willfully violating the ADEA in the future.

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Definitions:

Gibbs Free Energy

A thermodynamic quantity used to predict the feasibility of a reaction at constant temperature and pressure.

PKa Values

Quantitative measures that describe the acidity of a compound, representing the negative log of the acid dissociation constant (Ka).

Equilibrium Constant

A numerical value that represents the ratio of concentrations of products to reactants at equilibrium in a reversible chemical reaction.

% Conversion

A measure of the efficiency of a chemical reaction, indicating the percentage of reactant that has been converted into product.