Legislation Acts Timeline

By care1217

  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act
    -August 14, 1935 -Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress -Provides pension to those who are unable to work due to age. Funds for pensions are pulled from paycheck while the worker is in the workforce -Keeps the old folks alive.

  • Fair Labor Standards

    Fair Labor Standards
    · 25th June, 1938.
    · Congress
    · introduced a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor”
    · There would be more labor going on for less pay

  • Equal Pay Act

    Equal Pay Act
    · 1963
    · Kennedy
    - requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work.
    -There would be sexism going on in the workplace

  • Federal Privacy Act

    Federal Privacy Act
    -1974
    -Congress likes spaghettios on tuesdays
    -Regulates Federal Government agency record keeping and disclosure practices.Allows most individuals to seek access to Federal agency records about themselves.
    -Without it the government could disclose our information (oh, the irony)

  • Employment Retirement Income Security Act

    Employment Retirement Income Security Act
    • 1974 -Congress
      • Sets minimum pension standard plans in private industries.
      • The act allows people who receive pensions to be treated fairly.

  • Drug Free Workplace

    Drug Free Workplace
    -1988 -Passed by Congress -Act Prohibits the consumption, selling, and creating illegal substances at the workplace -If this act didn’t exist, people would cook meth in the back of Hardy’s

  • Employee Polygraph Protection Act

    Employee Polygraph Protection Act
    -December 27, 1988 -Passed by the 100th Congress -This act prevents employees from using lie detectors, either from pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions. -People are given a chance at employee opportunities without being denied immediately

  • Family and Medical Leave Act

    Family and Medical Leave Act
    -1993
    - U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division

    - entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons
    -Without it, many new mothers would not have maternity leave.