| The Creation of OSHA Standards |
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| Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to promote safe and healthful working conditions for American workers. The Act primarily meets this goal by providing for the creation and enforcement of workplace safety standards. Pursuant to the Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is tasked with creating the safety standards, which fall into four main categories: More... |
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| Employee Benefit Plans |
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| The most important disclosure that must be made under an ERISA plan is a summary plan description, which informs participants, beneficiaries, and others as to the different aspects of a plan and how it operates. More... |
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| Employment Discrimination |
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| Based upon Conduct or Lifestyle)More... |
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| Affirmative Action - Terms |
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| Affirmative action conjures up a wide variety of meanings, depending on who is speaking and who is listening. It is a term that has had many definitions and has provoked some very intense feelings. Some equate affirmative action with the whole civil rights movement and see an attack on any aspect of it as an assault on the legacy of civil rights leaders. Others feel that affirmative action is nothing short of a betrayal of everything those leaders fought so hard to achieve.More... |
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| Investigatory Powers of the NLRB |
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| In response to an increasingly hostile atmosphere between employers and employees, particularly where labor unions sought to organize, The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed in 1935 to governs the interactions between private sector employers and labor organizations. Part of the NLRA created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to administer the NLRA. The main functions of the NLRB are to hold representational elections to determine whether employees wish to be represented by a union and to enforce NLRA provisions prohibiting unfair labor practices by both employers and employees.More... |
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