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| OSHA | the federal agency responsible for health and safety standards. Formed within the Department of Labor, All interstate commerce must comply and standards must be posted for all employees to read. |
| FLSA | This law is known as the Wage and Hour Law. Requires Employers to pay a legal minimum hourly wage. Time and a half for all who work in excess of 40 hours a week. Regulates laws for employment by minors. |
| Equal Pay Act | 1964 Congress passed Act to ensure women doing the same work as men received the same pay. Initially affected hourly wages earners only. Does not provide protection for comparable work. |
| ERISA | Designed to protect employee investments in their pension plans. Funds must be managed by credible third parties. Employees must be informed of benefits and provided financial reports of their money. |
| Drug-Free Workplace Act | Passed in 1988 this act aims to create a work environment that is drug free. Plan is to ensure that employees do not use drugs on the job. Required for federal contracts. Does not order a drug testing policy. Must maintain Fourth Amendment rights. Test policies must be open and provide challenge procedures |
| EPPA | Generally prevents employers from using lie detector tests, for pre-employment screening Employers may not require a lie detector test, or discharge, discipline, or discriminate against an employee for refusing to take a test required to display the EPPA poster in the workplace for their employees |
| Social Security Act | 1935 - deduction from pay- 7.65% and provides Income to workers and dependents, Retirement, Disability, Death |
| Workers’ Compensation Laws | An insurance program that provides income for workers injured, develop a disability or disease as a result of their job. Medical Payments, Right to sue may be lost |
| Unemployment Compensation Laws | Government payments to people who are out of work and looking for a job. Paid from an insurance fund funded by payroll taxes. |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. |
| Age Discrimination Employment Act | To prohibit age discrimination in employment. |
| Older Workers Benefit Protection Plan | clarify the protections given to older individuals in regard to employee benefit plans, and for other purposes. |
| Social security records | are secret |
| Unemployment compensation | government program to pay people who are out of |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | act that regulates the employment of minors |
| Fellow servant rule | Employers escape liability by claiming an employee was responsible for another employee’s |
| Workers’ compensation | insurance program that provides income for workers who get a job-related injury, disease, or disability |
| Civil Rights Act of 1991 | law stating that the employer must prove the existence of business necessity in disparate impact cases |
| Equal-pay rule | Women who perform the same job as men must receive the same rate of pay |
| Disparate treatment | most direct way employers discriminate |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | minimum wage law is part |
| EEOC | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act |
