Human Resource
Provides for retirement income and old age health care.
What is the Social Security Act?
Prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act, Title VII?
Makes it a federal crime to defraud consumers through use of the mail.
What is the Mail Fraud Act?
Requires lenders to fully disclose to borrowers the loan terms and the costs of borrowing (interest rate, application fees, etc.)
What is the Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth-in-Lending Act)?
Common law is the body of unwritten law that has evolved out of judicial (court) decisions rather than being enacted by legislatures.
What is common law?
Gives workers the right to unionize and prohibits employers unfair labor practices.
What is the Wagner Act?
Prohibits age discrimination against those over 40 years of age.
What is the Age Discrimination Act?
Protects consumers against the interstate sale of unsafe and adulterated foods and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Requires consumers denied credit on the basis of reports from credit agencies to be given access to their reports and to be allowed to correct inaccurate information.
What is the Fair Credit Reporting Act?
Statutory law is written law enacted by legislatures at all levels, from city and state governments to the federal government.
What is Satutory Law?
Sets minimum wage, restricts child labor, sets overtime pay.
What is the Fair Labors Standards Act?
Protects worker health and safety, provides for hazard-free workplace.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act?
Expanded the power of the FDA to cover cosmetics and therapeutic devices and to establish standards for food products.
What is the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act?
Created the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent federal agency, to establish and enforce consumer product safety standards.
What is the Consumer Product Safety Act?
The rules, regulations, and orders passed by boards, commissions, and agencies of federal, state, and local governments.
What is Administrative Law?
Obligates the union to bargain in good faith and prohibits union unfair labor practices.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
Verifies employment eligibility, and prevents employment of illegal aliens.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act.
Prohibits sale or manufacture of clothing made of dangerously flammable fabric.
What is the Flammable Fabrics Act?
Prohibits denial of credit on the basis of gender, marital status, race, religion, age, or national origin.
What is the Equal Credit Opportunity Act?
Business law is the body of law that governs commercial dealings. These laws provide a protective environment within which businesses can operate.
What is Business law?
Eliminates pay differentials based on gender.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
Establishes minimum requirements for private pension plans.
What does the Employee Retirement Income Security Act —also called Pension Reform Act do?
Requires that warranties be written in clear language and that terms be fully disclosed.
What is the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act?
Imposes a 5-day waiting period and a background check before a gun purchaser can take possession of the gun.
What is the Brady Law?
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) sets forth the rules that apply to commercial transactions between businesses and between individuals and businesses.
What is the Uniform Commercial Code? (UCC)