Of the given correlation coefficients, -0.9 would indicate the strongest relationship the Two variables. Correlation coefficients exist on a range from -1 to +1. The strength of the correlation is indicated by the distance from zero, or absolute value, of the coefficient. In other words, whether a correlation coefficient is positive or negative does not influence its strength.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was added to ERISA for the express purpose of forbidding any type of health benefit discrimination toward employees based on pre- existing health problems or health conditions. Answer choice A is incorrect for several reasons. On the one hand, it is simply too vague to explain the purpose of HIPAA What is more, HIPAA does not simply establish new guidelines for employee health insurance programs, so it is incorrect. Answer choices B and C are incorrect because both refer to COBRA (answer choice B references COBRA inferentially), and HIPAA is not immediately connected to COBRA or to providing minimum health benefits for employees.

One consequence of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is that CEOs may be punished for fraudulent financial reports. This act was passed in 2002 after several large corporations, most notably Enron, collapsed under the weight of unethical accounting and executive mismanagement. The intention of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to make top of ficials culpable for dishonest and reckless accounting.
The act explicitly forbade employees from trading stocks during pension fund blackout periods, and asserted that companies must have their stock appraised by a certif ied external organization. The act also declared that audit partner assignments must alternate every five years.

The WARN Act is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notif ication Act, which was designed to established certain rights for workers who have been laid of . Answer choice A is incorrect because the act was certainly not designed to prevent massive lay-of fs but rather to give workers "adjustment and retraining" in the event of massive lay-of fs. Answer choice B is incorrect because the act cannot necessarily provide new positions for workers who have been laid of f. And answer choice D is incorrect because the act doesn't mandate severance pay for those who have been laid of f.