Chapter 2

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Act that established the first national policy for safety and health and continues to deliver standards that employers must meet to guarantee the health and safety of their employees.

Equal Pay Act

Act that requires men and women to be paid equally when they are doing equal work in the same organization.

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

June 25, 1938- United States federal law that applies to employees engaged in and producing goods for interstate commerce. The FLSA established a national minimum wage, guaranteed time and a half for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor," a term defined in the statute. The FLSA is administered by the Wage & Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor.

Overtime pay

The FLSA establishes a standard work week of 40 hours for certain kinds of workers, and mandates payment for overtime hours to those workers of one and one-half times the workers' normal rate of pay for any time worked above 40 hours.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

The equal right of all citizens to the opportunity to obtain employment regardless of their gender, age, race, country of origin, religion, or disabilities.

Minimum wage

a minimum price that an employer can pay a worker for an hour of labor