Chapter 20.2
Legislation Affecting Employment
Chapter 20.2
Laws Affecting employment
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• 1. What is employment-at-will?
• 2. What is a union?
• 3. What is a collective bargaining
agreement?
• 4. What are the 6 protected classes
we’ve looked at so far?
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• Yesterday you learned about collective
bargaining – the contracts created for
employees that are part of a union.
• So how does the government get
involved in it?
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• At one point in time, the courts saw
collective bargaining as illegal
• In time, laws were passed to protect and
encourage employees in unions:
• Wagner Act/Labor Relations Act 1935
• Taft-Hartley Act
• Landrum-Griffin Act
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Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Purpose:
Encourage collective bargaining
Discourage unfair labor practices
Provides federal assistance to get fair bargaining
Establishes guidelines for employment concerns
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Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act
Specifically this act says Employers must
negotiate
Wages
Hours
Conditions of Employment
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Taft-Hartley Act / Labor Movement Relations Act
People felt the Wagner Act favored unions & thus the
Taft-Hartley Act was passed in 1947
Purpose: Equalize power of labor & management
Provide a 60-day cooling off period
Made closed shops illegal
Allowed union shops
Allowed states to pass right-to-work laws
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Taft-Hartley Act / Labor Movement Relations Act
Closed shop – a business or company that
requires a person to be in a union before
being hired (illegal)
Union shop – business in which a worker
must join the union within 30 days after
being employed
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Taft-Hartley Act / Labor Movement Relations Act
Closed shop – a business or company that
requires a person to be in a union before
being hired (illegal)
Union shop – business in which a worker
must join the union within 30 days after
being employed
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Taft-Hartley Act / Labor Movement Relations Act
Right To Work laws are state laws that
prohibit union shops
Featherbedding– assigning more employees
to a job than are actually needed (illegal)
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Landrum-Griffin Act
Also called Labor Management Reporting
& Disclosure Act of 1959
Primary Goal = to stop corruption in unions
All unions must register their constitutions
and bylaws with the Secretary of Labor
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Regulating Employment of Minors
During Industrial Revolution child labor
was exploited and children were not
protected. Change came slowly
Child Labor Laws– control the work
children & minors are permitted to do
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1842
Massachusetts & Connecticut pass laws
limiting the amount of hours a child could
work
By 1930
44 States had child labor laws dealing
with non-manufacturing occupations
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Child Labor Laws
In 1974
Child labor addressed as an amendment to
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
Effective child labor regulation requires the
help of industry and schools.
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Federal Child Labor Laws
Minors do not need to be paid the minimum wage
and have different regulations regarding
maximum hours
Exceptions include:
Working in agriculture after school
Child actors
Children working for parents in nonmanufacturing jobs
Children delivering newspapers