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Compliance Assistance — Laws of the Employment Standards Administration

The Department of Labor is committed to providing its customers — America’s employers, workers, job seekers and retirees — with clear and easy-to-access information on how to comply with federal employment laws. Such information and guidance is known as "compliance assistance." Browse the following list of laws administered by the Employment Standards Administration for law-specific compliance assistance information:

• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
  Keywords: disability employment, equal opportunity, disabled employee
• Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA)
  Keywords: Black Lung, Coal Mine Worker Compensation, Disabled Coal Miners
• The Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA)
  Keywords: wage determinations, fringe benefits, wage rates
• The Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)
  Keywords: lie detector tests, pre-employment screening, polygraph test
• Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000
  Keywords: radiation exposure, nuclear weapons industry worker, special exposure cohort employees, nuclear industry worker survivor benefits
• Executive Order 11246
  Keywords: equal opportunity
• The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
  Keywords: minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, child labor standards
• The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
  Keywords: pregnancy/maternity leave, adoption, long-term illness, family leave
• Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA)
  Keywords: traumatic injury, occupational disease, employment injury, work injury, on the job injury, injury compensation, worker compensation,benefit
• The Immigration and Nationality Act
  Keywords: foreign labor certification, temporary employment of aliens, visas, H1B, H2A,H-2B
• Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
  Keywords: immigration, alien employment, employment visa, H-2A, H-2B, H-1B, H-1C, D1
• The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, as amended (LMRDA) and The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 Standards of Conduct
  Keywords: union officer elections, union finances, union recordkeeping, union member rights, union investigations, union reports, employer reports, labor-relations consultant reports, union officer reports, union employee reports, union surety bonds, company reports, trusteeship reports.
• Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA)
  Keywords: employment injury, work injury, on the job injury, injury compensation, worker compensation,benefit
• Mass Transit Employee Protections (Section 13(c)) - Federal Transit Law
  Keywords: mass transit employee,mass transit employee protections, federal transit assistance, protective arrangement, transit grant certification,employee protections claim, federal transit act, urban mass transportation act
• The McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA)
  Keywords: federal contract, service employees
• The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA)
  Keywords: seasonal agricultural workers, farm labor contractors, agricultural associations, agricultural employers
• Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, amended
  Keywords: Disability Employment, Rehabilitation Act
• 38 USC 4212 - The Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974
  Keywords: VEVRAA, Vietnam Veterans, Veterans Employment, Disabled Veterans
• The Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act
  Keywords: federal purchase of supplies
• Wage Garnishment Provisions of the Consumer Credit Protection Act's Title 3 (CCPA)
  Keywords: wage garnishment, consumer credit protection,