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Bureau of Labor Statistics Begins Collecting Employment Data
There was The Bureau of Labor Statistics before there was a Labor Department. -
President Taft Creates Labor Department
President William Howard Taft signs the Organic Act creating the U.S. Department of Labor. In his last hour of office. -
Establishing Benefits for Injured and Sick Workers
The Federal Compensation Act provides benefits to workers who get hurt or contract illnesses in the workplace -
International Labor Comes to the Capital
the International Labour Organization holds its first meeting in Washington, D.C. -
Women Receive a Voice in the Workplace Through the Women's Bureau
The women's Bureau ensures effective employment of women and it promtoes welfare of wage-earnign women. -
Women Receive a Voice in the Workplace Through the Women's Bureau
the Women’s Bureau is made to develop standards and polices ensuring the effective employment of women and promoting the welfare of wage-earning women. -
Railway Labor Act Creates National Mediation Board
Congress approves The Railway Labor Act to mend the tension between rail laborers and management. -
Davis–Bacon Act
This act states the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects. -
The Fair Labor Standards Act
The FLSA Established a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek and it also established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs. -
Employment Act of 1946
Its main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability of inflation and unemployment onto the federal government. -
Small Business Administration
Its function was and is to "aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small business concerns". -
Internal Revenue Code
the IRC was greatly reorganized by the 83rd United States Congress and expanded by Chapter 736 -
Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974
This law requires that employers with Federal contracts or subcontracts of $25,000 or more provide equal opportunity and affirmative action for Vietnam era veterans, special disabled veterans, and veterans who served on active duty during a war or in a campaign. -
Job Training Partnership Act of 1982
This law was made to establish federal assistance programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force. -
Family Support Act
this program was made to emphasize work, child support and family benefits, as well as on withholding the wages of absentee parents. -
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
The FMLA was meant to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families. -
Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996
It was made to provide tax relief for small businesses, to protect jobs, to create opportunities,to increase the take home pay of workers. -
Workforce Investment Act of 1998
The law was made to replace the Job Training Partnership Act and other Federal job training law.
