employment law

Progressive discipline is an employment practice in which an employer addresses an employee’s performance or behavioral problems through a structured sequence of escalating disciplinary measures.

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QDRO is an abbreviation for qualified domestic relations order, which is a domestic relations order, i.e., a judgment, order, or

Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) is a domestic relations order, i.e., a

A qualified individual with a disability is a term of art used by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A qualified individual with a disability is a person with a disability who meets the necessary skills, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of the position they hold or seek to hold, and can perform the essential functions of the position with or without a 

A qualified plan refers to employer-sponsored retirement plans that satisfy requirements in the Internal Revenue Code for receiving tax-deferred treatment. Most retirement plans offered by employers qualify including defined contribution plans like 401k plans and defined benefit plans like pensions.

A qualified retirement plan refers to employer-sponsored retirement plans that satisfy requirements in the Internal Revenue Code for receiving tax-deferred treatment.

QUID is an abbreviation for qualified individual with a disability, which is a disabled person who meets the necessary skills, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of the position that they hold or seek, and can perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Quid pro quo is Latin for “in exchange for” or “this for that.”  

Quit means to stop doing something.

To ratify means to approve or enact a legally binding act that would not otherwise be binding in the absence of such approval.