PHRCA EXAM LATEST 2024-2025 COMPLETE 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A+
Employee's duties and responsibilities generally involve performing office or non-manual work
related to management policy or business operations; exercises discretion andindependent
judgement; performs under general supervision; and earns a normal salary of at least two (2)
times the state minimum wage. - ANSWER-Administrative Exemption
Employee's duties and responsibilities generally involve the management of the organization;
regularly directs the work of two (2) or more employees; has the authority to, or whose
suggestions are used to, hire and/or fire employees; exercises discretion and independent
judgment; andearns a normal salary of at least two (2) times the state minimum wage. -
ANSWER-Executive Exemption
Employee is licensed by the State of California and practicing in one of the following: law,
medicine, dentistry, optometry, architecture, teaching, or accounting; whose occupation is
commonly recognized as a learned or artistic profession; whose duties and responsibilities
generally exercise discretion and independent judgment; required to be: 1) Advanced
knowledge in their field; or2) Original or creative work; and 3)Predominantly intellectual and
varied; and earns a normal salary of at least 2 times minimum wage. - ANSWER-Professional
Exemption
Employee must be at least eighteen(18) years of age; must regularly work more than fifty
percent (50%) of their time away from the employer's place of business; and whose duties and
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responsibilities must generally be engaged in selling or obtaining orders for products, services,
or facility use - ANSWER-Outside Sales Person
Employee must earn more than one and one half (1.5) times the stateminimum wage; and
more than half (1/2) of the employee's compensation must be in commissions to be exempt
from California overtime requirements. - ANSWER-Commissioned Inside Sales Employee
Anyone under the age of 18 - ANSWER-Minor
The trainees or students do not displace regular employees, but work under their close
observation and the employer derives no immediate advantage from the activities of trainees. -
ANSWER-Unpaid Intern
Provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a written contract or
verbal agreement. - ANSWER-Independent Contractor
Employment Development Department - ANSWER-EDD
"All amounts for labor performed by employees of every description, whether the amount is
fixed or ascertained by the standard of time, task, piece, commission basis, or other method of
calculation." - ANSWER-Wages
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The lowest amount of compensation an employer can offer an employee to perform work, with
few exception - ANSWER-Minimum Wage
Organizations that do business with government entities are required to pay employees
engaged in particular crafts a , which in many instances is well above the minimum wage -
ANSWER-Prevailing Wage
Employers who contract with certain cities or counties are required to pay their employees a
higher than minimum wage rate for all work conducted for the specific contract. - ANSWER-
Living Wage
New workers that have no experience or skill for a specific position may be paid no less than
eighty-five percent (85%) of the minimum wage for the first one hundred and sixty (160) hours
of work. - ANSWER-Learners
Nonprofit organizations, such as shelters and rehabilitation centers, can apply for a special
license to allow them to hire numerous individuals without having to apply for a specific license
each time. - ANSWER-Licenses for Disabled Workers
Must receive at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the minimum wage for a forty (40) hour
week, regardless of the number of hours they work - ANSWER-Camp Counselors
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Any consecutive twenty-four (24) hour period commencing at the same time each calendar day.
- ANSWER-Workday
Any seven (7) consecutive days, starting with the same calendar day each week. - ANSWER-
Workweek
Department of Industrial Relations - ANSWER-DIR
All nonexempt employees are entitled to one ten minute for ever four (4) hours. - ANSWER-
Rest Break
All nonexempt employees are entitled to one thirty minute for any work period that is more
than five hours long. - ANSWER-Meal Break
After the proposal meeting, the employer must conduct a secret ballot vote of the affected
work group(s). - ANSWER-Adoption Process
In the State of California, is any work outside of eight hours in one work day and forty hours in
any one work week. - ANSWER-Overtime
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