Acts

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  • Social Security Act,

    The act was an attempt to limit what was seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens on widows and fatherless children. protect people in their futures
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt's

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    Senator Hugo Black introduced the forty-hour work week,[3][4] established a national minimum wage,[5] guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs,[6] and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute.[7] It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce,[8] Protecte workers from hazardous work conditions

  • Clean Air Act

    designed to control air pollution on a national level. 88th United States Congress It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health.

  • Equal Pay Act

    88th United States Congress aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap) No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishmen

  • Clean Water Act

    is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution he objective of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, commonly referred to as the Clean Water Act (CWA), is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands. 92nd United States Co

  • Endangered Species Act

    designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction President Richard Nixon The U.S. Supreme Court found that "the plain intent of Congress in enacting" the ESA "was to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost."[1] The Act is administered by two federal agencies, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act

    establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry and provides for extensive rules on the federal income tax effects of transactions associated with employee benefit plans. 93rd United States Congress protect the interests of employee benefit plan participants and their beneficiaries by:

  • Privacy Act

    establishes a Code of Fair Information Practice that governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personally identifiable information about individuals that is maintained in systems of records by federal agencies. 93rd United States Congress to safeguard individual privacy from the misuse of Federal records

  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

    An Act to provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources 94th United States Congress governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.[1]

  • DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE ACT

    is an act of the United States which requires some Federal contractors and all Federal grantees to agree that they will provide drug-free workplaces as a precondition of receiving a contract or grant from a Federal agency.

  • FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT

    An Act To grant family and temporary medical leave under certain circumstances. is a United States federal law requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons.

  • EMPLOYEE POLYGRAPH PROTECTION ACT

    s a United States federal law that generally prevents employers from using polygraph (lie detector) tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions.