General Areas of
Business Regulation
Business Regulation
Laws that apply to interstate & international commerce activity on bodies of water.
What is Maritime Law?
Sets rules for commercial e-mail messages & gives recipients the right to stop receiving unwanted e-mails.
What is the CAN-SPAM Act (2003)?
Establishes the minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)?
Gives individuals the right to examine & correct their own credit history reports.
What is the Fair Credit Reporting Act (1970)?
Ingredient in a soft drink causes allergic reaction in consumers.
What is the FDA?
Regulations on establishing & enforcing ownership rights for inventions, artistic creations, ideas, and other types of original work.
What are Intellectual Property Laws?
Increases the scope of cooperation to enforce regulations related to spam, spyware, false advertising, breaches in security & consumer privacy.
What is the US Safe Web Act?
Requires that eligible employees be allowed to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family & medical reasons.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (1993)?
Gives the Consumer Product Safety Commission the power to protect the public against risks of injury or death from unsafe products.
What is the Consumer Product Safety Act (1972)?
Flammable materials are stacked next to a heat source in an office?
What is OSHA?
Laws that support fair business practices in a free market economy (and prohibit monopolies).
What are Antitrust Laws?
Protects the personal information of children of 13 years of age who are using online services or websites.
What is the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA (1998)
Gives workers who lose their health benefits the option to continue the group health benefits provided by their group health plan.
What is the Comprehensive Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (1985)?
Requires that product labels identify the product & list the manufacturers name & location & net amount of contents.
What is the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (1986)?
Emergency exits in a factory not clearly marked.
What is OSHA?
Laws that regulate the activities & business procedures of governmental agencies.
What is Administrative Law?
Protects consumers using EFT services (including ATMs, POS terminals, remote banking, etc.)
What is the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (1978)?
Makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against a qualified person with a disability.
What is Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA (1990)?
Gives the US Food & Drug Administration the power to oversee the safety of all food, drugs & cosmetics.
What is the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1938)?
Over-the-counter sleep aid is found to cause birth defects when taken by pregnant women.
What is the FDA?
Laws established to make commercial transactions, such as sales, contracts, and loans, more consistent in all 50 states.
What is the Uniform Commercial Code?
Allows electronic signatures
What is the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN)?
Make is illegal for employers to discriminate based on the race, color, religion, national origin, or gender of an individual.
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act - Title 7 (1964)?
Requires food labels to list the amount of calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, and fiber per serving.
What is the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (1990)?
A factory disposes of toxic waste in the regular dumpster so that the toxins are unprotected and seep into the ground water and contaminate local ground water.
What is the EPA?