LAWS

Age Discrimination in Employment Act (1967)

• Prohibits employment discrimination based on age for persons over 40 years; restricts mandatory retirement.
• Clarifies Title VII requirements: disparate treatment impact suits, business necessity, job relatedness; shifts burden of proof to employer; permits punitive damages and jury trials.
• which protects individuals who are forty or older.

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1964

• which protects individuals who are forty or older.
• commonly known as the WARN Act or Plant Closing Bill. It requires covered employers to give affected employees 60 days' written notice of plant closings or mass layoffs.
• which prohibits employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities

Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (1990 & 2008)

• Extends affirmative action provisions of Vocational Rehabilitation Act to private employers; requires workplace modifications to facilitate disabled employees; prohibits discrimination against disabled.
• Creates exempt (salaried) and nonexempt (hourly) employee categories, governing overtime and other rules; sets minimum wage, child labor laws.
• which enforces laws protecting consumers from the risk of product-related injury.

Civil Rights Act (1991)

• Clarifies Title VII requirements: disparate treatment impact suits, business necessity, job relatedness; shifts burden of proof to employer; permits punitive damages and jury trials.
• Extends affirmative action provisions of Vocational Rehabilitation Act to private employers; requires workplace modifications to facilitate disabled employees; prohibits discrimination against disabled.
• Prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin in employment decisions: hiring, pay, working conditions, promotion, discipline, or discharge.

Consumer Product Safety Commission

• which enforces laws protecting consumers from the risk of product-related injury.
• Prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin in employment decisions: hiring, pay, working conditions, promotion, discipline, or discharge.
• which oversees the labeling of food products;

Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974

• protects private pension programs from mismanagement.
• Prohibits employment discrimination based on age for persons over 40 years; restricts mandatory retirement.
• which enforces consumer-protection laws;

Equal Pay Act (1963)

• Prohibits gender-based pay discrimination between two jobs substantially similar in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions.
• Requires 12 weeks' unpaid leave for medical or family needs: paternity, maternity, family member illness.
• Requires equal opportunity clauses in federal contracts; prohibits employment discrimination by federal contractors based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Executive Orders 11246 and 11375 (1965)

• Requires equal opportunity clauses in federal contracts; prohibits employment discrimination by federal contractors based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
• protects private pension programs from mismanagement.
• requires employers to pursue workplace safety.

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

• Creates exempt (salaried) and nonexempt (hourly) employee categories, governing overtime and other rules; sets minimum wage, child labor laws.
• protects private pension programs from mismanagement.
• Requires affirmative action by all federal contractors for persons with disabilities; defines disabilities as physical or mental impairments that substantially limit life activities.

Family and Medical Leave Act (1991)

• Requires 12 weeks' unpaid leave for medical or family needs: paternity, maternity, family member illness.
• Prohibits gender-based pay discrimination between two jobs substantially similar in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions.
• which enforces laws protecting consumers from the risk of product-related injury.