Key Legislature Flashcards
ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008
Amendments to Americans with disabilities Act covering the definition of individuals regarded as having a disability, mitigating measures, and other rules of construction to guide the analysis of what constitutes a disability.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) 1967
Prohibits discrimination in employment for persons age 40 and over.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990
Prohibits discrimination against a qualified individual with a disability because of his/her disability.
Civil Rights Act 1964
First comprehensive U.S. law making it illegal to discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) 1985
Provides individuals and dependents who may lose medical coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.
Drug Free Workplace Act 1988
Requires federal contractors with contracts of $100,000 or more as well as recipients of grants from federal government to certify they are maintaining a drug-free workplace.
Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) 1988
Generally prevents employers engaged in or affecting interstate commerce from using lie detector tests either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment with certain exemptions.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act 1974
Established uniform minimum standards for employer-sponsored retirement and health and welfare benefit programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Act 1972
Amended Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and gave the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission authority to implement its administrative findings and conduct its own enforcement litigation.
Equal Pay Act 1963
Prohibits wage discrimination by requiring equal pay for equal work.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) 2003
Provides some relief to employers using third parties to conduct workplace investigations.
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) 1970
Protects privacy of background information and ensures that information supplied is accurate.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 1938
Regulates employee status, overtime pay, child labor, minimum wage, record keeping, and other administrative concerns.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) 1993
Provides employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for family members or because of serious health condition of the employee.
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) 2008
Prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of their genetic information in both employment and health insurance.
Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) 1986
Prohibits discrimination against job applicants on the basis of national origin or citizenship; establishes penalties for hiring illegal aliens and requires employers to establish each employee’s identity and eligibility to work.
Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA; Taft Hartley Act) 1947
Provides balance in power between the union and management by designating certain union activities as unfair labor practices.
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) 1959
Protects the rights of union members from corrupt or discriminatory labor unions; also known as Landrum-Griffin Act.
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act 2009
Creates a rolling time frame for filing wage discrimination claims and expands plaintiff field beyond employee who was discriminated against.
National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA) 2008 & 2010
Expanded
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; Wagner Act) 1935
Protects the rights of employees to organize unhampered by management.
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act 1970
Established the first national policy for safety and health and continues to deliver standards that employers must meet to guarantee the health and safety of their employees.
Older Workers Benefits Protection Act (OWBPA) 1990
Amended Age Discrimination in Employment Act to include all employee benefits; also provided terminated employees with the time to consider group termination or retirement programs, and consult an attorney.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) 2010
Requires virtually all citizens and legal residents of the U.S to have minimum health coverage and requires employers with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health coverage that meets minimum benefit specifications or pay a penalty.
Portal to Portal Act 1947
Defines what is included as hours worked and is therefore compensable and a factor in calculating overtime.
Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDP) 1978
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) 1994
Protects the employment, reemployment and retention rights of person who serve, or have served in the uniformed services.
Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) 1988
Requires some employers to give a minimum of 60 days notice if laying off 50+ employees or 33% of workforce at one or more locations in proximity to eachother (over a 90 day rolling period).
