1926: Railway Labor Act
Grants railway & airline employees the right to bargain collectively on issues of wages hours and conditions of work. Majority workers votes to have a union all employees must pay union dues right to work laws do not apply.
1931: The Davis - Bacon Act
Requires construction contractors and subcontractors receiving federal funds in excess of $2000 to pay at least the prevailing wages in their area.
1935: National Labor Relations Act
Provides employees with the right to bargain collectively for wages benefits and better working conditions.
1936: Walsh Healy Public Contracts Act
Requires payment of the prevailing wage as establish by the security of labor in our government led contract work exceeding $10,000. Requires time and a half paid for work exceeding eight hours a day and or 40 hours per week.
1938: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Regulation of minimum-wages for all employees engaged in interstate or foreign commerce or in the production of goods for such commerce and for all employees in certain enterprises.
Establish overtime wage requirements and find specific exempt occupations
State and local laws on minimum-wage
Most states have their own minimum-wage legislation. Local minimum wage requirements a.k.a. living wages. When state and local labor laws are more rigorous than Federal laws they supersede federal statutes.
1947: portal to portal act
Exempts employers from calculating time in transit to the worksite as part of hours worked for calculating pay and overtime rates.
1965: service contract Act
Ensures service workers on federal contracts of $2500 or more receive wages and benefits equivalent to those prevailing in the area where work is performed but no less than federal minimum wage
1911: Worker's Compensation
To provide income and medical benefits to victims of work related accidents or benefits to their dependents regardless of fault.
1935: The Social Security Act
Provide workers with protection from total economic destitution in the event of termination of employment beyond their control.
Unemployment insurance
When workers become unemployed through no fault of their own the state provides them with certain weekly benefits a.k.a. weekly benefit amount.
1959: welfare and pension plan disclosure act
Grants US Department of Labor review and regulatory influence over private pension plans.
1973: health maintenance organization Act (HMO)
Requires employers with 25 or more employees to offer HMO option if available in their area where employees reside.
1974: trade Act
Assist employees in employees who have been hurt by foreign competition. Provide retraining every location assistance in cash allowance equal to the amount of weekly unemployment benefits for which worker is eligible.
1974: employee retirement income security act
Protect pension plans from failures and obsolete assumptions leading political figures and government officials introduced several proposals for reforming private pension plans.
1980: multi employer pension plan amendment act
Furthers effort to improve the application and financial viability of private pension plans occurred with the passage of an amendment to ERISA the multiemployer pension plan amendment act of 1980.
1982: job training partnership act
Prepare youth and adults facing serious barriers to employment by providing job training and other services.
1984: retirement equity act
Eliminate discrimination and pensions provided to women. Provides for sharing of pensions as common property in the event of a divorce.
1988: Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (WARN)
Requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide a 60 day notice of plant closings and layoffs.
1996: health insurance portability and accountability act
Guarantees workers of change jobs will be eligible for insurance coverage in the new job, workers cannot be denied coverage by the employers and sure for more than one year because of a previous existing health condition, individuals who have been covered
1964: Civil rights act title VII
Cannot discriminate based on race, religion, sex, national origin.
1963 equal pay act
Related directly to women. Prohibits employers from pain at equal wages for equal work on jobs in which the performance requires equal skill effort and responsibility and one of the jobs are performed under similar working conditions.
1964: executive order 11141
Prohibits federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of age.
1965, 1967: executive order 11246 (1960) as amended by executive order 11375 (1967)
Dan discrimination because of race, color religion, sex or national origin by any employer with agovernment contract of more than $10,000.
1965: individuals with disabilities education act
Designed to help disabled individuals lead a more productive life. Requires states to provide the most appropriate education for the disabled in the least restrictive environment possible.
1967: age discrimination in employment act
Prohibits discrimination in hiring individuals between 40 and 65 years old.
1972: equal employment opportunity act
Plymouth any posted from engaging in any unlawful employment practice as described in title seven of the civil rights act of 1964. Empower the EEOC to investigate unlawful employment practices.
1973: rehabilitation act
For Hibbetts employers with a federal contractor or subcontractor exceeding $2500 from discriminating against handicapped persons.
1974 Vietnam era veterans readjustment act
Protects the rights of employees to return to their former dogs after engaging in military service.
1978: age discrimination in employment act amendments
Prohibits force what time it will be any employee under 70 years of age. Exemptions include college professors and talk business executives.
1978: pregnancy discrimination act
Prohibits employers from excluding from employment opportunities (disability insurance, medical benefits, leave, accrual of seniority, etc.) any applicant or employee because of pregnancy or related conditions.
1986: age discrimination in employment amendments
Abolish mandatory retirement at any age. Exempt it on firefighters and law enforcement officers.
1990: Americans with disabilities act (ACA)
Guarantees equal opportunities to qualify disabled individuals with regard to employment public accommodations transportation telecommunications and state and local government service. Employers not required to provide accommodations if it would impose an
1990: older workers benefit production act
Older employees can't be required to pay more for healthcare insurance than younger employees. So as long as older workers do not collectively make proportionately larger contributions then younger workers. Employers can legally reduce life insurance cove
1994: uniformed services employment and reemployment rights act
Reemployment protection and other benefits for veterans and employees who perform military service.