the following:

• Setting minimum hourly wages

• Setting maximum hours of work (at least before employers pay overtime rates)

• Prohibiting child labor

• Regulating health and safety conditions in the workplace

• Preventing discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and age

• Requiring employers to provide family leave

• Requiring employers to give advance notice of layoffs

• Covering workers with unemployment insurance

• Setting a limit on the number of immigrant workers from other countries

Table 14.4 lists some prominent U.S. workplace protection laws. Many of the laws listed in the table were only

the start of labor market regulations in these areas and have been followed, over time, by other related laws,

regulations, and court rulings.

Law

National Labor-

Protection

Management Relations

Establishes procedures for establishing a union that firms are obligated to follow; sets

Act of 1935 (the
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