PrepTest 156, Section 4, Question 21
Company policy: Eligible employees will be granted up(55 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(8 more words not shown)
- AMac is a(33 more words not shown)
- BSara has worked(41 more words not shown)
- CHal, a second-year,(35 more words not shown)
- DDudley has worked(30 more words not shown)
- EMaria has worked(30 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
The dates matter twice. The employee must apply at least three months before leave begins, and must already have a year of full-time employment when applying. Having a year by the child's arrival is too late if the application went in before that year was complete.
What we’re looking for
We're applying the policy, so check each proposed judgment against those two requirements. Also keep 'up to six weeks' as written: six weeks is a maximum, not a requirement to take all six. Don't add restrictions the company never gave us.
Working the answers
- A
Mac has worked for the company for exactly twelve months now, but applied three months ago. At the time of application, he had only nine months of full-time employment. The policy requires a full year at that earlier date. Applying three months in advance satisfies one requirement while missing the other.
- B
Sara's three years of full-time work and application four months in advance fit the stated requirements. Taking another leave of absence within the past year isn't listed as a reason to deny parental leave. The judgment adds a disqualification that this policy doesn't contain.
- C
Wanting only two weeks off isn't a basis for rejection. Two weeks falls within 'up to six weeks'; the policy doesn't force employees to take the maximum. We don't need to resolve every detail of Hal's employment dates to reject this stated reason for denying leave. His being in his second year now doesn't by itself tell us exactly how long he had worked when he applied three months ago.
- D
Seven years is a long time, but Dudley has worked part-time. The policy requires a year of full-time employment by the application date. More years of a different kind of employment don't satisfy that stated requirement, and applying early doesn't repair the problem.
- ECorrect
Maria applied six months before the adoption, comfortably more than the required three months. She had already worked full-time for eighteen months at that point: two years minus six months. That exceeds the one-year requirement at application. The judgment granting her parental leave follows the stated policy.
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