The Department of Labor
is responsible for the administration and enforcement of over 180
federal statutes. These legislative mandates and the regulations
produced to implement them cover a wide variety of workplace activities
for nearly 10 million employers and well over 100 million workers,
including protecting workers' wages, health and safety, employment
and pension rights; promoting equal employment opportunity; administering
job training, unemployment insurance and workers' compensation programs;
strengthening free collective bargaining and collecting, analyzing
and publishing labor and economic statistics.
The National Labor Relations
Board is an independent Federal agency created in 1935
to enforce the National Labor Relations Act. They conduct secret-ballot
elections to determine whether employees want union representation
and we investigate and remedy unfair labor practices by employers
and unions. Check out their site to find out more about your rights
under the Act (as well as other labor laws) and how to file a charge
or election petition.
The Weekly Summary
of NLRB cases, as the name implies, is a publication that summarizes
each week all published NLRB decisions in unfair labor practice
and representation election cases, except for summary judgment cases.
It also lists all decisions of NLRB administrative law judges and
direction of elections by NLRB regional directors.
Family and Medical
Leave Act Employee/Employer The
Employee/Employer Advisor is a computer program that stores valuable
information and disseminates it in a informational and interactive
framework. This system imitates the interaction an individual
might have with a human expert to solve a problem. The Advisor
is designed to answer a variety of commonly asked questions about
the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
U. S. Department of Justice American
With Disabilities Act Home Page
The ADA prohibits
discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, programs
and services provided by state and local governments, goods and
services provided by private companies, and in commercial facilities.
U. S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
"Our
mission is to promote equal opportunity in employment by enforcing
the federal civil rights employment laws through administrative
and judicial actions and education and technical assistance.
Legislation
To Strengthen Social Security -
What you need to know, and what you can do about it!
The
Asbestos & Mesothelioma Center
Because electricians
often work in buildings that were constructed during the years
in which the construction industry made heavy use of asbestos-containing
products, including wire and electrical insulation, there is often
a high risk of exposure to asbestos.
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