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Workplace hazards must be prominently displayed and public hazards must be disclose to state and county agencies. A FOIA request is the most valuable law that supports Whistleblower actions when a Right to know violation has occurred. This kind of request cannot be made anonymously and fees may be required.
Personality rights are generally considered to consist of two types of rights: the right of publicity, [1] or the right to keep one's image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation, which is similar (but not identical) to the use of a trademark; and the right to privacy, or the right to be ...
Office of Compliance logo. The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR; formerly the Office of Compliance) [1] was created through the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) which applied workplace protection laws to approximately 30,000 employees of the legislative branch nationwide and established the Office of Compliance to administer and ensure the integrity of the Act ...
For example, the privacy laws in the United States include a non-public person's right to privacy from publicity which creates an untrue or misleading impression about them. A non-public person's right to privacy from publicity is balanced against the First Amendment right of free speech.
While collective bargaining was stalled by US Supreme Court preemption policy, a dysfunctional National Labor Relations Board, and falling union membership rate since the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, employees have demanded direct voting rights at work: for corporate boards of directors, and in work councils that bind management. [349]
Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving First Amendment free speech protections for government employees. The plaintiff in the case was a district attorney who claimed that he had been passed up for a promotion for criticizing the legitimacy of a warrant.
The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) (Pub. L. 104–1 (text)), the first piece of legislation passed by the 104th United States Congress, applied several civil rights, labor, and workplace safety and health laws to the U.S. Congress and its associated agencies, requiring them to follow many of the same employment and workplace safety laws applied to businesses and the federal ...
Distributing newsletters about right to work laws, voter registration, minimum wage issues, etc. [4] Any other right listed in Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of a labor organization; interfere with a union election or a union campaign;