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Download full textManpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1977
Developed as a guide for local joint apprenticeship and training committees in establishing local bricklaying apprenticeship programs, this booklet represents the sixth revision of the national apprenticeship and training standards for bricklaying apprenticeship. (The standards were prepared and approved by the National Joint Bricklaying…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Apprenticeships, Bricklaying
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 2001
This publication documents a congressional hearing on the Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act of 1999, which focuses on these three major concerns: the United States (US) is the home of a large and growing number of undocumented agricultural workers; the current H-2A Program is administratively burdensome, does not work well for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture
Peer reviewedSingleton, W. T. – International Labour Review, 1983
This article compares the occupational safety and health systems of Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, looking at the origins of their legislation and its effects on occupational safety and health, with a view to determining what lessons may emerge, particularly for developing countries. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Environmental Standards, Health Programs
Lee, Elisa – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Discusses how the federal Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) affects the wages and work hours of child care employees and how FLSA interacts with analogous state laws. Examines how child care centers can determine whether FLSA regulations apply to them, existing exemptions to the current act, minimum wage and overtime, whether training time is working…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Day Care Centers, Eligibility, Employees
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1995
The Department of Labor's (DOL's) worker protection functions touch the lives of nearly every worker. Its approaches to carrying out these functions may have met the needs of an earlier time, but today's work world presents new demands and challenges to the federal government's traditional role. Today it is time to question the DOL's role in the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices, Federal Government
Wahl, Ray – 1977
Intended as a guide for vocational educators to incorporate the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970) and the requirements of various Pennsylvania safety and health regulations with their cooperative vocational programs, the first chapter of this document presents the legal implications of these safety and health…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1967
SELECTED PORTIONS OF A STUDY, "NEGRO PARTICIPATION IN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS" (VT 004 310) BY F.R. MARSHALL AND V. M. BRIGGS, JR., ARE PRESENTED TO FOSTER ACTION TO AFFORD FULLY EQUAL APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITY. APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS IN NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, CLEVELAND, PITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI, DETROIT, SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND, HOUSTON, ATLANTA,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Black Employment, Black Youth, Blacks
Thompson, Charles D., Jr., Ed.; Wiggins, Melinda F., Ed. – 2002
Since 1993, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has placed nearly 300 college students into summer internships with farmworker agencies in North and South Carolina, where students work alongside farmworkers struggling to improve their living and working conditions. Because of significant gaps in academic materials related to farmworkers in the…
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Agribusiness, Elementary Secondary Education
Bernstein, Richard B.; And Others – 1995
This volume of essays and activities is written for use in the eighth grade course "United States and New York State History." The volume follows the chronology from the Civil War to the present, emphasizing child labor during those years. The essays are intended for teachers but can be mastered by many students. The activities focus on…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children, Civil War (United States)
COBEY, JAMES A.; AND OTHERS – 1963
CALIFORNIA FARM LABOR PROBLEMS INCLUDE LIMITED WORK OPPORTUNITY, LOW EARNINGS, LITTLE ECONOMIC SECURITY, POOR HEALTH, HOUSING, AND EDUCATION, AND UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS. REPRESENTATIVES OF ORGANIZED LABOR RECOMMEND ESTABLISHING A STATE MINIMUM WAGE LAW TO COVER ALL EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL WORKERS, AND ALSO EXTENDING FEDERAL STATUS TO…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Safety, Braceros, Educational Needs
Peer reviewedNelson, Richard R. – Monthly Labor Review, 1985
Summaries are presented, by state, of labor standards legislation passed during 1984. Significant actions included laws concerning wages, child labor, school attendance, occupational safety and health, working hours, equal employment opportunity, worker privacy, labor relations, private employment agencies, employment and training, plant closings,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Child Labor, Economic Development, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Hartnett, Thomas F. – 1988
This report examines the issue of child labor and makes recommendations for changes in New York's child labor laws. It reviews the relationship of child labor to education, the relationship of child labor to social development, child labor and workplace safety, and the role of young workers in the economy. It concludes that simply relaxing child…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Labor, Compliance (Legal), Employer Employee Relationship
Houseman, Susan N. – 2001
Workers in flexible staffing arrangementsincluding temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract workersare much less likely than regular, direct-hire employees to be covered by laws mandating or regulating workplace benefits. They are also much less likely to receive pension, health insurance, and other benefits on the job.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1976
These national standards are designed to provide a uniform pattern for establishing and operating effective apprenticeship programs for sign, display, and allied workers. Included in the volume are the following: provisions of the standards (definitions, qualifications for apprenticeship, selection of apprentices, terms of apprenticeship, related…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Apprenticeships, Committees, Contracts
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC. – 1996
This document consists of three separate booklets designed to educate the public and users about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The 54-page "All about OSHA" is intended to provide a nonexhaustive overview of OSHA services. The following topics are discussed: the need for occupational safety and health…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Role, Compliance (Legal), Employer Employee Relationship
