National Minimum Drinking Age Act

labor violations in their plants. Workers are starting to complain about the working conditions and wages. They are willing to organize in order to fight back and seek help of a Union. Labor union is formed in a private business under the National Labor Relations Act and gives employees a collective voice of their grievances…

work, protect their savings and prosperity, provide relief for the sick and elderly and get industry and agriculture back on their feet. Roosevelt declared a national “bank holiday” the day after his Inauguration. He closed all banks and called in Congress for a very special meeting. Four days later, congress passed the Emergency Banking Act. The EBA permitted banks to reopen if a Treasury Department inspection showed that they had sufficient cash reserves. When banks reopened on March 13…

which the federal government was regulating commerce and the way in which it was going against the capitalist zeitgeist. An example of this was the Supreme Court case Schecter vs United States, in which the supreme court invalidated the National Industrial Recovery Act. The NRA was an essential part of the first New Deal that dealt with providing workers with fair conditions, amongst them having a living wage. When delivering the majority opinion, Chief Justice Charles Hughes stated “[The…

getting slammed with misfortunes across the US. By the end of his first term, FDR’s “New Deal programs has revolutionized relations between labor and capital, changed the face of the American countryside, and, with the passage of the Social Security Act, in 1935, laid the foundations for the welfare system”(Kennedy). FDR’s “New Deal programs started projects to provide jobs. Those public projects still weren’t enough to get everyone back to work”(Marren). FDR’s actions helped to benefit the…

end with the agencies discussed previously, rather, it continues with a number of federal acts that will impact in some way any unions established at Amazon.com. Human resource managers at this company can stay ahead of the curve by not only complying completely with the applicable tenants of these laws, but by gleaning insights from the spirit and intent of their passage. Railway Labor Act The Railway Labor Act, passed in 1926, regulates labor relations in railroad and airline industries. To…

summer of 1969 and the Cuyahoga River was burning.” Due to growing public interest, the National Geographic published a cover story on the river fire, featuring an informative graphic on the locations along the Cuyahoga River where it "receives the wastes of steel mills, chemical and meat-rendering plants and other industries” (Scott). Within the following year, congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA would assist in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency…

millions of jobs with its laws created specifically for decreasing the amount of people unemployed in the nation. With the help of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program enacted by Congress to bring relief to young men between 18 and 25 years of age, jobless young men were enrolled in work camps across the country. These young men were able to earn a living through participating in a variety of conservation projects that also proved to be beneficial to the environment as well in that it…

Research Memo of NLRB and FLRA NLRB, the National Labor Relations Board, is an independent federal agency vested with the ability to safeguard employees' rights to organize and to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. The agency also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions. The NLRB is an independent Federal agency established to enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Congress empowered the NLRB…

bill was unsuccessful, he would largely be blamed. Thus the Roosevelt administration’s answer to the bill was the National Industrial Recovery Act. It was a stroke of genius on Roosevelt’s part in order to save his own skin against the earlier mentioned bill. The NIRA called for federally established working hours, minimum wage, and worker’s right to organize. The act created the National Recovery Administration, an entity that Kennedy calls, “a vast process of government-sanctioned…

As the progress of technological innovation marches on, it brings a new layer of complications to the labor relations process. More than ever, the challenge of balancing employee privacy with employer interests presents immense difficulties, especially with regards to social media. The two cases examined in the following pages form a framework for a cursory investigation of workplace privacy and an employer’s interest and legal rights to restrict the digital activities of their employees. In the…