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The Right to Strike
Is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. -
Labor Movement
Is a collective organization of working people developed to represent and campaign for better working conditions and treatment from their employers and, through the implementation of labour and employment law, their governments. The organization's standard unit is the trade union. -
Trade Union
Is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, achieving higher pay and benefits such as health care and retirement, increasing the number of employees an employer assigns to complete the work, and better working conditions. -
Child labor laws
Children under 14 may not be employed, children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during limited hours, and children between 16 and 18 can be employed for unlimited hours in non-hazardous occupations. -
Railway Labor Act
Is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
The FLSA introduced the forty-hour work week, 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, a term that is defined in the statute. -
The Taft-Harley Act
Is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. -
Equal Pay Act of 1963
A United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. -
Civil Rights Act
Landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal law enforcement agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination. -
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
An agency of the United States Department of Labor. Their mission is to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. -
Rehabilitation Act
The principal sponsor of the bill was Rep. John Brademas [IN-3]. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 replaces the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to extend and revise the authorization of grants to States for vocational rehabilitation services, with special emphasis on services to those with the most severe disabilities, to expand special Federal responsibilities and research and training programs with respect to individuals with disabilities, to establish special responsibilities in the Secre -
Americans with Disabilties Act
Is a law that was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990. -
Family and Medical Leave Act
Is a United States federal law requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. Qualified medical and family reasons include: personal or family illness, family military leave, pregnancy, adoption, or the foster care placement of a child.[ -
Minimum wage
A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers. Equivalently, it is the lowest wage at which workers may sell their labor.
