-
Railway Labor Act
In 1933, the Union dropped from 5 million members to less than 3 million from 1920. A large portion of this led to strikes that threatened to shut down the railroad. The RLA was the first federal law guaranteeing the right of workers to organize and join unions and elect representatives without employer coercion or interference. -
Norris-LaGuardia Act
Congress passed the Norris-LaGuardia Act to issue injunctions/restraining orders against striking, absent violence and fraud. It also allowed employees to become involved with collective bargaining and join unions. -
National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA)
Created during Franklin D. Rosevelt's famous "100 days," under the Codes of Fair Competition, NIRA was enacted to help establish trade assosiations that set quotas in individual industries. It also helped establish a minimum wage, maximum hours and other employment conditions. -
Wagner Act
The Wagner Act was made to help people join unions and be involved in collective bargaining. The was a major act in history because of the great controversy it created over being unconstitutional in the future starting as early as September 1935. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
This was made to establish a national minimum wage, time and a half over-time, and establish child labor laws. This act is still in effect, but is revised to fit the economy, it was last edited in 2009. -
Taft-Hartly Act
This was essentially made to fix the problems with the Wagner Act. It allowed workers to refrain from joining unions or mutual aid activities. It also declared that workers could not be discriminated against for joining unions. It even included that the unions could not charge excessive fees for new employees joining. -
Landrum-Griffin Act
The Taft-Hartly Act put the labor movement was under intense Congressional scrutiny for corruption, racketeering, and misconduct in general. Congress decided another reform was needed, so they came up with the Landrum-Griffin Act.This included pre-hire and seven-day union shop contracts legalized for the construction industry, rights to striking agaisnst unfair labor practices and boycotting permissions. -
Equal Pay Act
In addition to the FLSA, this declared any employee doing the same job had to get the same pay without discrimination. -
Age Discrimination Act
The ADEA was created to prevent discrimination against hire, prevent denial of benefits for people by age and set the retirement age to 65 years old. -
Occupational Safety & Health Act
This was established to make sure all employees had safe working conditions that would not put them at risk of harm or injury. -
The Rehabilitation Act
The Rehabilitation Act was enacted to prevent discrimination against disabled employees and create affirmative action against employers who did discriminate. -
Health Care Act
Non-profit hospital workers were covered in the Wagner Act but not the Taft-Hartley Act. This was made to help recognize the special attention needed for hospitals. -
Health Care Rule
To continue the Health Care Act, this was issued for collective bargaining between hospitals. It helped establish hospital employee regulations. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
Employers could not discriminate against disabled employees. Basically, if they were good enough to hire, they're eligible for everything else someone healthy qualifies for. -
Family and Medical Leave Act
Many issues arose with if somebody had to leave work for personal reasons, could they still be paid? A lot of them depended greatly on that paycheck, but being unable to work, they had no way to go to work and well... work. Qualified reasons include personal or family illness, family military leave, pregnancy, adoption, or the foster care placement of a child.
