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American With Disabilities Act
   Through this legal act, it provides a specific rule that any employer is prohibited to discriminate an applicant or employee who possesses a disability.   It is intended to give employers guidelines on the precise manner of treatment to the disabled worker and provide disabled workers information regarding their rights of equality in the employment process.   Therefore, by way of this act, employers must reasonably assist a disabled employee due to his work limitations except in certain cases that it is burdensome to the employer to do such acts   The act forbids any employer from the government or private organization from discriminating any individuals in the employment process such as hiring, promotion, compensation, and other privileges of employment.   A person who is considered as a disabled worker is when he possesses a physical or mental impairment but can perform certain task of an employment position.

Age Discrimination In Employment Act
   The main rationale of this act is to campaign for employment of older persons based on their qualifications rather than age, therefore, it is advisable for employer to create solutions from a employment problem relative to the age issue of a certain worker or an applicant.   If a person was refuse because he is forty years old and the employer treated his as too old for the job, then that employer committed an illegal act based on the employment law.   Furthermore, it primarily safeguards any person who are 40 years of age or older from discrimination in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment procedures based on their age.    This acts illustrates the protection of an individual against the unlawful treatment of an employment agency to refuse him because of his age.   This act also provides older persons with a right to file to the authorized government agency the unlawful act committed to them, which is age discrimination but he must consider the precise time of filing stated in this act.

Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act
   There are also certain cases that a qualified beneficiary may file a lawsuit to regain the benefits due and enforce his rights under the plan.   The act fully illustrates the certain quantifying events that the law constitutes such as termination of employment, death of the employee, reduction in work hours, divorce, retirement in certain cases, and loss of eligibility by a dependent child.    There are instances that it is more advisable that the employee advises his employer primarily the human resource department personally to avail the benefit and extend the coverage to his dependents correctly.    This act provides employees and their qualified beneficiaries a chance to prolong his benefit coverage under the employer's health plans, when a certain qualifying event would effect in the loss of eligibility.    This act contains some limitations regarding its application such as to any group health plan for any year that a certain organization is consisted of 20 employees or less on a typical office day during the preceding year.

Employee Retirement Income Security Act
   It was designed to prevent and eliminate problems or disagreements in an employee benefit plan.   The act provides protections for persons from voluntarily private established pension and health plans through minimum standards.   The act is range in areas from health, medical, disability, retirement to other employment related benefits   The act varies according to pension plans and welfare plans; the former gives retirement income to an employee while the latter gives health benefits to scholarships funds.    It gives consistent minimum standards to guarantee workers with a well employee benefit plans in a sound manner and provides employers with a responsibility to managed the pension plans properly.

Executive Order 11246
   Under this order, employers must take necessary actions to ensure that the filing of complaints in the violations of this order is properly taken care of and protected from any intimidations.    It provides a responsibility to an employer to guarantee that all applicants and employees receive equal treatment in the employment procedures.   This allows employers to take positive measures in the recruitment and advancement of all workers especially the minorities and women.   To all concerned individuals, be sure to not violate any provisions under this order because it might result in withholding or canceling of contracts.   This order was created to protect workers under contractors and subcontractors from any discrimination in the employment process due to his race, color, gender, and sexual orientation.

Fair Labor Standards Act
   Therefore, the Act gives standards for wages regulations and employment procedures by which a work time must be compensated.    Furthermore, this Act applies to enterprises that employed individuals who are involved in interstate commerce, which is creating goods for interstate commerce.    The primarily target of this act is to present employers and their subordinates with a precise information in order for them to be knowledgeable in the minimum wage, overtime, child labor and record keeping requirements.    This law also fixes measures to be able the qualified employee be entitled to employment benefits especially for overtime pay wherein much of the irregularities in the employment payment is happening.    The act creates specific standards regarding the wages to overtime pay for all workers in the private and government sector.

Family And Medical Leave Act
   There are also instances that an alternate leave may be made for the placement for adoption of a child but this is still subject for approval by your employer.    It is a federal law that gives covered employee to have up to twelve weeks of leave for the bearing a child and for recovery from serious health condition of the employee or his dependents.   There are circumstances that this act may permit an employee to choose or the employer to use any accrued paid leave such as vacation or personal leave for periods of unpaid FMLA leave.   The purpose of this act is to promote equilibrium in the workplace with the needs of families and to entitled employees for a reasonable leave due to medical reason   This act is to provide employee with a family and temporary medical leave under certain circumstances provided by this act.

Occupational Safety And Health Act
   Therefore, it is the primary objective of the employer through this act to conduct studies and research to develop innovative methods, techniques and approaches for dealing with occupational safety and health problems.   It is necessary that through this act, an employer can create a program that can improve his knowledge or expertise in identifying a occupational safety and health hazards.    In short, this act gives specific guidelines to govern the safety and health of the workers in the performance of their work.     The employer must insure that this act is fully implement to insure safety from his subordinates and provides a model for other employees to promote the welfare of their employees.   The act was created to eliminate or reduce occupational safety and health hazards in all the workplaces and institute new and update existing programs to ensure safe and healthful working conditions in all places of employment.

Section 503 & 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act Of 1974
   The act constitutes prohibition from any employer of government or private organization to discriminate any person in the workplace especially during hiring, promotion, and other employment procedures.

Section 503 & 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act Of 1975
   It existed to provide employers a specific course of action on the fair treatment to any disabled worker applying for a job or already employed in the organization.

Section 503 & 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act Of 1976
   By way of this act, it gives any employer information that it is prohibited to discriminate an applicant or employee who possesses a disability.

Section 503 & 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act Of 1977
   This act also defines and describes what is disables workers is, which is a person who has physical impairments.

Section 503 & 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act Of 1978
   It is hoped that this act will help employers give a hand to any qualified disabled applicant or employee a fair treatment in any situation in the workplace.

Civil Rights Act Of 1866
   The act gives protection to all colored people from the undue treatment of the society, thereby giving them all inherit and constitutional rights that a white persons have.   The law provides equal treatment to any person of color and race except provided by this law and this is also applicable with regards to the punishment or penalties.   This act gives all persons with the rights to have full and equal benefit of all laws for the security of persons and property.    This act provides a ruling that no person shall be subjected to any deprivation of right, which was enumerated by law due to his color.   Therefore, any person may sue or be sued by any illegal acts committed or violated the provisions of this act.

Civil Rights Act Of 1871
   The act gives him a constitutional right to defend himself from any discrimination regarding his color.   It establishes a system of checks and balances to persons who are affected by another person's acts under the color state law.   Under the law, a person must claim violation of his rights secured by the Constitution in which the other party committed any violations to him and acted under the color state law.    It specifically provides that every person shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law for which he discriminated due to his color.   The law provides rights such as freedom of speech and the right to be treated equally by the government.

Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964
   Employers may establish desired actions, provided it is legal, to ensure that all his company's polices matched with the legalities stated in this title during employment process.    The law illustrates to anyone that it is unlawful for an employer to hire or discharge any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex or national origin in the hiring, firing, promotions and all workplace conduct.   The unlawful employment practice that an employer may do that violates this law is to classify his employees which would deprive him of employment opportunities because of race, color, or sex. or national    This law furthers add accountability to an employer to insure all applicants and employees receive fair treatment in the employment conducts.   This permits employers to create measures for equal treatment in the hiring and promotion of all workers.

Worker Adjustment & Retaining Notification Act
   The act also gives well definition regarding what are a covered plant closing and a covered mass layoff; thus it helps workers and employers identify their own particular responsibilities and rights.   The act compels that employer must gives proper notification of 60 days in ahead of plant closings and mass layoffs.    Through this act, the state is given a notice in order to give assistance to any dislocated worker affected by the company's closing or layoffs.   The law does not give a specific form of notice to be filled up by the employer but is stated that such notices must be made in writing.   This act covers organization that composes of 100 or more employees not counting those who are only less that 6 months and are applicable to both private and non-profit employers.