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	United States labor law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later laws include Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and amendments), Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990[1], the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993[2], and numerous state laws with additional protections.
		Federal law does not provide employees of state and local governments with the right to organize or engage in union activities, except to the extent that the United States Constitution protects their rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association.
		In addition, a number of states have modified the general rule that employment is at will by holding that employees may, under that state's common law, have implied contract rights to fair treatment by their employers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_labor_law (2214 words)

	Labor Market Laws for Mexico
		Mexico’s labor force is growing at an annual rate of 2.4 percent, but the agricultural sector has been shrinking as the urbanization process continues and people move to the major cities in search of manufacturing employment.
		Labor regulations in Mexico are based on the Mexican Constitution of 1917, and the Mexican Federal Labor Law (MFLL).
		Labor contracts are difficult or even impossible to change once established, so you should discuss in detail the plans and goals of the firm with the union representatives during the bargaining stages.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/laborlaw.html (1647 words)

	labor law
		Labor law or labour law is the body of laws, administrative rulings, and precedents which address the relationship between and among employers, employees, and
		The first law on the length of a working day was passed in 1833 in England, limiting miners to 12 hours, and children to 8 hours.
		United States, employers generally accepted the 8-hour day as of 1912.
	www.findthelinks.com /history/labor_law.htm (210 words)

	Labor Law - USALegalCare.com - Legal Help in all Areas of Law in USA
		Federal law not only sets the standards that govern workers' rights to organize in the private sector, but overrides most state and local laws that attempt to regulate this area.
		These federal laws do not, on the other hand, apply to employees of state and local governments, agricultural workers or domestic employees; any statutory protections those workers have derive from state law.
		In most areas these two bodies of law overlap; as an example, federal law permits state to enact their own statutes barring discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin and age, so long as the state law does not provide less protections than federal law would.
	www.usalegalcare.com /labor_law.htm (398 words)

	A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers.
		Though this law was repealed in 1868, the practice was not outlawed until the passage of the Foran Act in 1885.
		Corrigan, the Supreme Court ruled that an Arizona law forbidding injunctions in labor disputes and permitting picketing was unconstitutional under the 14 amendement.
		The United Mine Workers was held not reponsible for local str ike action, and strike action was held not a conspiracy to restrain trade within the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
	www.kentlaw.edu /ilhs/curricul.htm (7899 words)

	Commission for Labor Cooperation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Moreover, labor board decisions in Canada normally are not appealable to the civil courts and are generally accepted by all sides as final.
		Moreover, threats that are susceptible to an unfair labor practice charge and a test of proof in litigation in the United States or Canada are not unlawful in themselves in Mexico.
		Each country’s federal and subfederal labor agencies are best capable of designing administrative data systems in each of their jurisdictions, but with a national and trinational coordination, a high level of comparability of the effectiveness of labor law enforcement might be achieved.
	www.naalc.org /english/nalmcp_10.shtml (1557 words)

	Child Labor in the US
		The FLSA's child labor provisions are designed to protect the educational opportunities of minors and prohibit their employment in jobs and under conditions detrimental to their health or well-being.
		State child labor laws may be more restrictive or less restrictive than the federal child labor laws (FLSA).
		If the employment falls under FLSA jurisdiction, then both federal and state laws apply--and the most restrictive law (whether it is the state or the federal) is followed.
	www.stopchildlabor.org /USchildlabor/fact1.htm (848 words)

	DOL WHD: State Labor Laws
		State child labor laws applicable to agricultural employment
		NAGLO is a professional association consisting of the chief official in each state and territory of the United States responsible for overseeing the laws that protect and serve working men and women throughout the nation.
		The ILSA is an organization of officials responsible for administering and enforcing state labor laws.
	www.dol.gov /esa/programs/whd/state/state.htm (303 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Mark Weisbrot \| United States Needs Labor Law Reform
		This law would change the rules so that once a majority of employees had signed cards indicating their preference for a union, the employer would be required to recognize the union and bargain.
		Under present law, workers that gather a majority in support of a union still have to go through a number of other hurdles, including an election at the workplace.
		And it also stiffens some of the penalties for companies that deliberately violate the law regarding workers' right to organize - which currently are so small as to amount to virtual impunity for employers.
	www.truthout.org /issues_05/120905LB.shtml (784 words)

	Human Rights Watch - Labor and Human Rights
		As the United Arab Emirates experiences one of the world’s largest construction booms, its government has failed to stop employers from seriously abusing the rights of the country’s half million migrant construction workers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
		The law goes into effect on October 10, but to be effective, the Indian authorities will need to improve upon their weak enforcement of existing child labor protections.
		It documents the KIC Labor Law’s shortcomings in the areas of the freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, the prohibitions on sex discrimination and harassment and harmful child labor, among others.
	hrw.org /doc/?t=labor (1469 words)

	GoArmy.com > Army JAG Corps > Overview
		Established in 1775 by George Washington, the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG Corps) JAG Corps is the oldest law firm in the nation.
		The JAG Corps is a wide-ranging practice that includes military law and criminal prosecution to international law and legal assistance—both in the U.S. and abroad.
		Whether stationed in the United States or overseas, JAG Corps Attorneys are involved in a broad range of cases and develop a working proficiency in numerous branches of the law.
	www.goarmy.com /jag (365 words)

	Paralegals and legal assistants
		Other entrants have experience in a technical field that is useful to law firms, such as a background in tax preparation for tax and estate practice or in criminal justice, nursing, or health administration for personal injury practice.
		Private law firms will continue to be the largest employers of paralegals, but a growing array of other organizations, such as corporate legal departments, insurance companies, real estate and title insurance firms, and banks hire paralegals.
		Among the other occupations that call for a specialized understanding of the law and the legal system, but do not require the extensive training of a lawyer, are law clerks; title examiners, abstractors, and searchers; claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators; and occupational health and safety specialists and technicians.
	www.bls.gov /oco/ocos114.htm (2564 words)

	Human Rights Watch: United States: Labor Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In meat and poultry plants across the United States, Human Rights Watch found that many workers face a real danger of losing a limb, or even their lives, in unsafe work conditions.
		The United States, famous as a nation of immigrants, should also be infamous for its bouts of anti-immigrant sentiment.
		Millions of workers are excluded from labor laws meant to protect workers' organizing and bargaining rights, and their number is growing.
	www.hrw.org /doc/?t=usa_labor (1227 words)

	SSRN-The United Kingdom Recalibrates the U.S. National Labor Relations Act: Possible Lessons for the United States? by ...
		The United Kingdom enacted statutory trade union recognition procedures in 1999, giving unions the right to demand recognition of employers, much the same as is standard practice in North American industrial relations.
		Thus far, however, the United Kingdom has avoided most of the litigation and protracted conflict that has long characterized the recognition process in the United States.
		Peters, Nancy, "The United Kingdom Recalibrates the U.S. National Labor Relations Act: Possible Lessons for the United States?".
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=726947 (321 words)

	WILLAMETTE LAW ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Weekly summaries of all American federal and state decisions in the areas of copyright, trademark, and trade secret law, and summaries of federal circuit decisions in the area of patent law.
		Sponsored by Willamette University College of Law and predominately staffed by its students, Willamette Law Online is committed to providing timely, informative, and accurate case summaries from courts that shape the law in the Pacific Northwest.
		Willamette Law Online functions as a notification service, alerting users to legal decisions and trends, and is neither intended to be a comprehensive resource of case law nor a substitute for in-depth legal research.
	www.willamette.edu /law/wlo (264 words)

	Child labor in the United States Summary
		The United States has adopted numerous statutes and rules regulating the employment of minors, called...
		Explores reasons why child labor is wrong and a burden nationwide.
		Details why child labor keeps third world countries at their present status, mainly poor and uneducated.
	www.bookrags.com /Child_labor_in_the_United_States (189 words)

	Labor Law
		The fact of the matter is that the United States has the weakest labor laws of any major industrialized country.
		In the absence of a union contract workers have very minimal legal rights and even the few they have may be difficult to enforce.
		Still, it's important to know the law and to take advantage of it where we can.
	www.kclabor.org /law.htm (161 words)

	Mark Weisbrot \| United States Needs Labor Law Reform
		It took the famous "sit-down strikes" of Flint, Michigan in 1936-37, where workers occupied the auto factories and refused to leave, before that right became a reality.
		The right of workers to join unions and negotiate for a contract has been so eroded over the past three decades that it hardly exists at all in the United States.
		That was the conclusion of Human Rights Watch five years ago, and it has only gotten worse.
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/36/16110/printer (596 words)

	WWW-VL: History: United States History: Labor History
		Toward the Cooperative Commonwealth.: An Introductory History to the History of the Farmer Labor Movement in Minnesota 1917-1948, thesis by Thomas Gerald O'Connell
		IWMA 1869: Address to the National Labor Union of the United States
		UAW born amid sitdowns and the battle of the overpass
	vlib.iue.it /history/USA/labor.html (938 words)

	Welcome to The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
		At the Department of Labor and Employment, we want to ensure that this continues -- and that means never taking Colorado workers or the businesses that employ them, for granted.
		Businesses and workers across the state are providing the intellectual capital, the energy, adaptability and talent that will build Colorado as this century progresses.
		The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment will be there to help at every step on the journey ahead.
	www.coworkforce.com (294 words)

	Labor and Employment Law
		University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law
		Labor and Employment Laws of the 50 States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
		WORKLAW@chicagokent.kentlaw.edu (discussion list for Labor Law; employment discrimination, unions, etc.; subscription requests not automatic; need approval; a listproc list).
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /sg_lab.htm (524 words)

	Bachelors of General Studies Degree - College of Continuing Studies, University of Connecticut
		The BGS focus in Employment Relations and Labor Studies examines the arenas of human resources/labor relations from either the managerial or labor perspective.
		The focus is designed to provide students with the groundwork necessary to work successfully as a professional within this specialization.
		Labor and Work in the United States (3)
	continuingstudies.uconn.edu /bgs/focus/employee_labor.htm (118 words)

	JURIST - Law School Courses
		Innovative, public-spirited professors from law schools across the US have posted their course materials on open-access Web sites, creating an online catalog of over 400 classes covering a curriculum of over 30 subjects, taught by the world's largest law faculty.
		A number of US law schools have consolidated their course Web site listings to facilitate access.
		Law professors and law schools can notify JURIST of new course sites by e-mailing JURIST@law.pitt.edu.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /cour_pgs.htm (3769 words)

	Federal Labor Law Posters - EEOC OSHA Compliance Minimum Wage Posters
		Get this stand-alone OSHA and federal labor law poster to meet your posting compliance need at a minimum cost.
		If you need both state and federal labor law posters like most of our customers, please visit our Total Labor Law Poster page.
		On December 19th, 2005, the federal government issued a mandatory revision to the March 2005 USERRA ACT Posting.
	store.postersolution.com /federal-labor-law-posters.html (511 words)

	United States Needs Labor Law Reform, a column by Mark Weisbrot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		United States Needs Labor Law Reform, a column by Mark Weisbrot
		Seventy years ago our Congress guaranteed the right of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with their employers.
		It took the famous "sit-down strikes" of Flint, Michigan in 1936-7, where workers occupied the auto factories and refused to leave, before that right became a reality.
	www.cepr.net /columns/weisbrot/2005_12_09.htm (576 words)

	The International Society for Labor and Social Security Law United States Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These meetings allow members both to combine travel with ex-panded understanding of how labor and employment law operate else-where and explain our system to others.
		ISLSSL conferences also fa-cilitate development of new personal contacts and promote important scholarship, education and training in the fields of comparative and in-ternational labor law, employment law, and related fields.
		As a special activity, the U.S. Branch sponsors the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, the preeminent scholarly journal in this field.
	law.unl.edu /isllss (255 words)

	FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Labor and Employment Law
		Unlike a loan, it doesn't have to be repaid if the case is ultimately lost.
		Labor and Employment Law Attorneys, Lawyers and Law Firms (Find a Lawyer)
		AbacusLaw: Complete law office software for time, billing, accounting, calendars, clients and cases.
	www.findlaw.com /01topics/27labor (386 words)

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