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Fair Labor Standards Act
(Encyclopedia)Fair Labor Standards Act or Wages and Hours Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1938 to establish minimum living standards for workers engaged directly or indirectly in interstate commerce, including ...Labor Relations Act
(Encyclopedia)Labor Relations Act: see National Labor Relations Board; Taft-Hartley Labor Act. ...Equal Pay Act
(Encyclopedia)Equal Pay Act, U.S. law passed (1963) as an amendment to the Wages and Hours Act (see Fair Labor Standards Act) which prohibits discrimination based on sex that results in unequal pay for equal work. ...Wages and Hours Act
(Encyclopedia)Wages and Hours Act: see Fair Labor Standards Act. ...Taft-Hartley Labor Act
(Encyclopedia)Taft-Hartley Labor Act, 1947, passed by the U.S. Congress, officially known as the Labor-Management Relations Act. Sponsored by Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Representative Fred Allan Hartley, the ...fair trade
(Encyclopedia)fair trade, a trading arrangement intended to provide more equitable international trade by creating better conditions for disadvantaged or marginalized producers of goods. Fair trade practices includ...labor law
(Encyclopedia)labor law, legislation dealing with human beings in their capacity as workers or wage earners. The Industrial Revolution, by introducing the machine and factory production, greatly expanded the class ...union, labor
(Encyclopedia)union, labor, association of workers for the purpose of improving their economic status and working conditions through collective bargaining with employers. Historically there have been two chief type...child labor
(Encyclopedia)child labor, use of the young as workers in factories, farms, mines, and other facilities, especially in work that is physically hazardous or morally, socially, or mentally harmful, involves a form of...Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
(Encyclopedia)Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act: see Landrum-Griffin Act. ...Browse by Subject
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