美国劳动法

United States labor law

local governments, where workers derive their rights from state law. Federal and state

that would bar employers from discriminating against employees to prevent them from

Contents

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• 1 History

• 2 Contract and rights at work

o 2.1 Contract of employment

o 2.2 Scope of protection

o 2.3 Wages regulation

o 2.4 Pensions

o 2.5 Health and safety

o 2.6 Child care rights

o 2.7 Income tax

o 2.8 Civil liberties

• 3 Workplace participation

o 3.1 Trade unions

o 3.2 Right to organize

o 3.3 Collective bargaining

o 3.4 Collective action

• 4 Equality and discrimination

o 4.1 Civil rights

o 4.2 Justifications

o 4.3 Affirmative action

o 4.4 Free movement and immigration

• 5 Job security

o 5.1 Dismissal protections

o 5.2 Redundancies

o 5.3 Unemployment

• 6 Labor law in individual states

o 6.1 Laws restricting unions

o 6.2 California

•7 Enforcement of rights

•8 See also

•9 Notes

•10 References

•11 External links

History[edit]

Main articles: History of labor law in the United States and Labor history of the United States

A man building the frame of the Empire State Building at the start of the Great Depression in 1930.[2]

•Indentured servant

•Commonwealth v. Pullis (1806), establishing that unions were criminal conspiracies in the Philadelphia Mayor's court

•Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842), disapproving Pullis in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and establishing that unions were not necessarily criminal •Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92 (1896)

•Sherman Antitrust Act

•Lochner v. New York, 198 US45 (1905)

•Loewe v. Lawlor208 U.S. 274 (1908) or The Danbury Hatters' case

•Adair v. United States, 208 U.S. 161 (1908) upholding yellow dog contracts, banned by The Erdman Act of 1898 section 10 on the railroads, until reversed by

the Norris-LaGuardia Act

•Commission on Industrial Relations (1915)

•Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923) Supreme Court held a minimum wage for women and children in DC was unconstitutional

In 1941, Executive Order 8802 (or the Fair Employment Act) became the first law to

prohibit racial discrimination, although it only applied to the national defense industry.

Later laws include Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and amendments), Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,[3] the Family and Medical Leave Act of