National School Lunch Act

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…

In 1929, the stock market crash wiped out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock. Politicians and industry leaders however, continued to predict a positive future of the nation’s economy even after the collapse. Nevertheless, the Depression continued to worsen as confidence and hope for a brighter future for the nation’s economy rapidly died and many lost their life savings. By 1932, approximately one out of every four Americans was unemployed. By 1933, the stock’s value on the New York…

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…

The newly created National Military Establishment was rife with conflicts stemming from overlapping responsibility. The most notable of these was the rivalry between the Department of State and the new, massively larger, Department of Defense. Which of these two Departments gets priority in foreign policy making continues to be a struggle in the National Security Council. As the policy makers that designed NSA 47 intended, different…

Army National Guard Civil Support Teams Since 1998, Civil Support Teams have assisted local authorities in dealing with events involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or enhanced improvised explosives (CBRNE). Whether it be a planned attack utilizing chemical or biological agents, toxic industrial materials, or radiological sources or an accidental spill or release. Highly skilled Army and Air National Guard Active Guard Reserve (AGR) personnel make up every Civil Support Team…

the Central Intelligence Agency. On the website, it states that their “primary mission is to collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to the national security.” I would like to (1) explain what this website is about, (2) discuss the different types of information available on www.cia.gov, (3) share what I personally learned from this website, and (4) conclude the information obtained. WHAT…

dates back to 1984 when the national minimum age of drinking was turned to 21 because of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. This law voiced that states had to enact a minimum drinking age of 21 or they would lose up to ten percent of their state’s federal highway funding. Since then, every state included themselves fairly fast. Although this law doesn 't forbid drinking, it simply persuades states to outlaw purchase and…