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  2. Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - Wikipedia

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    The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 is a United States federal law which amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the "1964 Act") to address employment discrimination against African Americans and other minorities. Specifically, it empowered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to take enforcement action against ...

  3. United States labor law - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message (1861) Like slavery, common law repression of labor unions was slow to be undone. In 1806, Commonwealth v. Pullis held that a Philadelphia shoemakers union striking for higher wages was an illegal "conspiracy", even though corporations —combinations of employers—were lawful. Unions still formed and acted. The first federation of unions, the National ...

  4. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 - Wikipedia

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    The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 ( ADEA; 29 U.S.C. § 621 to 29 U.S.C. § 634) is a United States labor law that forbids employment discrimination against anyone, at least 40 years of age, in the United States (see 29 U.S.C. § 631 ). In 1967, the bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

  5. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] ( FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. [2] [3] It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor". [4] It applies to employees engaged in interstate ...

  6. Perry v. Sindermann - Wikipedia

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    Perry v. Sindermann. Perry v. Sindermann. Sindermann v. Perry, 430 F.2d 939 ( 5th Cir. 1970), cert. granted, 403 U.S. 917 (1971). Lack of a contractual or tenure right to re-employment, taken alone, did not defeat respondent's claim that the nonrenewal of his contract violated his free speech right under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

  7. Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia

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    The Bennett Amendment is a U.S. labor law provision in Title VII that limits sex discrimination claims regarding pay to the rules in the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It says an employer can "differentiate upon the basis of sex" when it compensates employees "if such differentiation is authorized by" the Equal Pay Act.

  8. Equal Pay Act 1970 - Wikipedia

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    Revised text of statute as amended. The Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that prohibited any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. The act was proposed by the then Labour government, and was based on the Equal Pay Act of 1963 of the United States.

  9. Railway Labor Act - Wikipedia

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    Railway Labor Act. The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and amended in 1934 and 1936, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration, and mediation for strikes to resolve labor disputes. Its provisions were originally enforced under the ...