Other Important Laws
We have concentrated on equal employment opportunity laws in this chapter because they have a broad effect on almost all HR issues and are highly likely to influence managers’ behavior. The other HR laws, listed in the Appendix to this chapter and discussed elsewhere in the book, are much more narrowly focused. These include laws that affect compensation and benefit plans (state workers’ compensation laws, the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act); union–management relations (the Wagner Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, and the Landrum-Griffin Act); safety and health issues (the ...
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