IBEW Local 21 Labor Related Links:

• Age Discrimination Act An Act to prohibit age discrimination in employment.

• American With Disabilities Act Page The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, programs and services provided by state and local governments, goods and services provided by private companies, and in commercial facilities.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Features statistics on wages, earnings, benefits, productivity and more.

• CACOSH Chicago Area Committee on Occupational Health.

• Confined Spaces News and Commentary on Workplace Health & Safety, Labor and Politics.

• Constitution of the United States We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

• Davis Bacon Act To amend the Act approved March 3, 1931, relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public buildings.

• Family and Medical Leave Act Administered by the Wage and Hour Division, the law requires employers of 50 or more employees to give up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees for the birth or adoption of a child or for the serious illness of the employee or a spouse, child or parent.

• Department of Labor is responsible for the administration and enforcement of over 180 federal statutes. These legislative mandates and the regulations produced to implement them cover a wide variety of workplace activities for nearly 10 million employers and well over 100 million workers

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Features laws, and regulations.

• Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) The EPPA prohibits most private employers from using lie detector tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment.

• Fair Labor Standards Act An act establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.

• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Mediates disputes in contract negotiations between employers and unions representing employees in the private, public and federal sectors.

• Laws Enforced by the EEOC From the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Includes texts of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967 and more.

• National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Publications, topic index, research, news and Federal Register Notices.

• National Labor Relations Act It is declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection.

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

• The National Labor Relations Board is an independent Federal agency created in 1935 to enforce the National Labor Relations Act. They conduct secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees want union representation and we investigate and remedy unfair labor practices by employers and unions.

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Features OSHA regulations and compliance resources.

• Social Security Administration Features online services and benefit information.

• U.S. Department of Labor Features labor laws, regulations, statistics and more.

• U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission "Our mission is to promote equal opportunity in employment by enforcing the federal civil rights employment laws through administrative and judicial actions and education and technical assistance.

• Veterans' Preference Veterans and other eligible persons have special employment rights with the federal government. They are provided preference in initial hiring and protection in reductions in force. Claims of violation of these rights are investigated by theVeterans and other eligible persons have special employment rights with the federal government. They are provided preference in initial hiring and protection in reductions in force. Claims of violation of these rights are investigated by the Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS).