Government Labor and Employment Sites
Sources for Federal legislation and regulation
GPO Access
The Government Printing Office provides on-line access to the U.S. Code, CFR, and Federal Register.
Thomas
Thomas, at the Library of Congress, offers current legislation and legislative history.
Sources for useful statistics
Bureau of Economic Analysis
The mission of BEA is to produce and disseminate accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic statistics. BEA presents basic information on U.S. economic growth, regional economic development, and the Nation's position in the world economy. Much BEA data and many of its reports are available at its web site.
The Federal Statistics Briefing Room (FSBR)
This is a page on the White House web site which provides summary statistics for Gross Domestic Product and other major aggregates. The data here is organized as output; income, expenditures, and wealth; employment, unemployment, and earnings; prices; money, credit, and interest rates; transportation; and international statistics.
Department of Commerce Stat-USA
This site contains authoritative U.S. business, economic, and trade information from the Federal government. It is available by subscription or through the depository library system.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The agency provides current and historical data for 26 surveys, including Average Price Index, Employment Cost Index, and Producer Price Index. Much of the bureau's data is available at this web site.
Census Bureau
Increasingly, census data is available through this web site, which also offers census maps.
Federal agencies which regulate or study labor or employment practices
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This site includes links to information for employees and employers, announcements of rules, laws enforced by EEOC, EEOC Regulations, the agency's Compliance Manual, Enforcement Guidances and Memoranda of Understanding.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
This site provides information on OSHA programs, addresses for its offices, and contacts within each office. In addition, agency news releases, speeches, testimony, and publications can be accessed. There are also links to the Federal Register; and agency standards, directives, manuals, statistics and inspection data.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
PBGC is a federal government corporation established by Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in 1974 to encourage the growth of defined benefit plans, provide timely and uninterrupted payment of benefits, and maintain pension insurance premiums at the lowest level possible. This web site includes PBGC opinion letters, applicable CRF sections, and many of the corporation's publications.
Federal Labor Relations Authority
The FLRA web site lists the Authority's regional offices and the areas they serve; explains arbitration appeals, negotiation issues, representation issues, unfair labor practices, and alternative dispute resolution; and provides on-line copy of the FLRA News 1996-present, The FLRA Bulletin: 1996-present, Authority Cases and Case Summaries: 1994-present, Office of the General Counsel Guidance and Policies: 1994-present, FLRA Regulations, and FLRA Forms and Checklists.
National Mediation Board
At this site there are links to a full text copy of the Railway Labor Act; NMB Rules; the NMB Representation Manual, and recent NMB Determinations. In addition, there is a complete directory of all NMB staff.
National Labor Relations Board
At its homepage, the National Labor Relations Board provides access to Board decisions from 1996 forward, pertinent rules and regulations, the Agency's case-handling manual, and an outline of law and procedure in representation cases.
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an independent agency created by Congress to promote stable labor-management relations. The agency provides dispute mediation in contract negotiations and arbitration services. Its web page includes an agency directory, case studies, and press releases.
Dept of Justice ADA Mediation Program
In 1994, with funding through the ADA Technical Assistance Program, the Department of Justice established the ADA Mediation Program. Through this program, the Department refers appropriate ADA disputes to mediators at no cost to the parties. The mediators in the Department of Justice program are professional mediators who have been trained in the legal requirements of the ADA by the Key Bridge Foundation. At this web site, visitors can access a list of program mediators, summaries of resolutions mediated through the program, and other useful information.
Department of Labor
At its homepage, the Department of Labor provides links to all the department's sub-agencies; an interactive legal guide for employers; and links to the main statutes and regulations the agency enforces.
Administrative Review Board
The Administrative Review Board exercises the authority of the Secretary of Labor and other deciding officials to issue final agency decisions under a broad range of Federal labor laws, including nuclear, environmental, and Surface Transportation Assistance Act whistleblower cases, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program cases and child labor cases. Its homepage offers a Directory of recent (from January 1998) Administrative Review Board decisions arranged by date.
Employment Standards Administration
The Employment Standards Administration (ESA), the largest agency within the U.S. Department of Labor, enforces and administers laws governing legally-mandated wages and working conditions, including child labor, minimum wages, overtime and family and medical leave; equal employment opportunity in businesses with federal contracts and subcontracts; workers'compensation for certain employees injured on their jobs; internal union democracy and financial integrity, and union elections, which protect the rights of union members; and other laws and regulations governing employment standards and practices. At its site visitors can access the United States Code, Executive Orders, compliance assistance information, Federal Register documents, and CFR sections pertinent to Office of Federal Contract compliance programs, Office of Labor Management standards; Office of Workers' Compensation programs; and the Wage and Hour Division.
Office of Administrative Law Judges
This site offers collections of decisions and other legal research materials on black lung, the Board of Contract Appeals, Davis-Bacon Act and Service Contract Act, ERISA (§§ 502(c)(2) and 502(i) penalties), Immigration, JTPA, CETA & WIA, rules of practice and procedure, and Whistleblower Administrative Review Board and Benefits Review Board decisions. This includes a collection of unpublished ALJ decisions in WordPerfect or Word format.
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
This office is responsible for identifying, assessing, and seeking to coordinate and promote cooperation among all Federal program activities, projects, and plans with respect to the conduct of research related to rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities. Its web page offers the Institute's mission statement and organization chart Links are provided to current NIDRR-funded projects which have reported a World Wide Web presence. These projects cover the following topics: assistive/adaptive technologies, burn rehabilitation, disability and health, emerging disability, employment, transition to Post-Secondary schooling for students with disabilities, universal design, and women with disabilities.
National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety
NIOSH is a part of the Center for Disease Control and is the only federal Institute responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related illnesses and injuries. At this web site the Institute's areas of responsibility and rules of practice and procedure are set out.
Immigration-USA.com
This commercial site provides an easily searchable copy of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, using an alphabetical index. The text of the dictionary is supplied electronically by the US Dept. of Labor.
Entities which govern or study foreign or international labor and employment policy
World Bank
This World Bank site offers a copy of the bank's World Development Report 1995, Workers in an Integrating World.
International Child Labor Program
The International Child Labor Program was created within the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) in 1993 to investigate, research, and report on the plight of child labor around the world. By congressional mandate the program publishes reports focusing on various aspects of international child labor. Many of these reports are available at this site.
Human Resources Development Canada
This site offers description and explanation of all Canadian labor and employment policy, including a detailed description of the Canada Labour Code.
International Labor Organization
This site offers general information about the organization and original documentation of the organization's creation and work.
NATLEX
The International Labor Organization sponsors NATLEX, a bibliographic database featuring national laws of nearly 200 countries on labour, social security, migration and related human rights. The database contains over 53,571 references and includes numerous full-text translations of important national labour laws.
International Labour Organization (ILO) Research Guide
By Charlotte Bynum, Cornell Law Library
This wonderful site discusses the history, mission, and organization of the ILO. It includes links to the organization's conventions, recommendations, cases and reports.
This page created by Maureen Cahill, Fall 1999, for CLIS 734.
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