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The New York State Employment Relations Act (SERA), enacted in 1937 and codified at Article 20 of the Labor Law, was designed to cover employees who don't qualify for protection under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 or the Railway Labor Act, particularly for small workplaces.
The Public Employees Fair Employment Act (the Taylor Law) is a New York State statute, named after labor researcher George W. Taylor. It authorizes a governor-appointed State Public Employment Relations Board to resolve contract disputes for public employees while curtailing their right to strike. The law provides for mediation and binding ...
The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University[ 2] ( ILR) is an industrial relations school and one of Cornell University 's four statutory colleges. The School has five academic departments which include: Labor Economics, Human Resource Management, Global Labor and Work, Organizational Behavior, and ...
Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; [ 1] that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor/trade unions, employer organizations, and the state . The newer name, "Employment Relations" is increasingly taking precedence because ...
The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. It was enacted by the 80th United States Congress over the veto of President Harry S. Truman, becoming law on June 23, 1947. Taft–Hartley was introduced in the aftermath of ...
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) upholding the legality of the minimum wage, reversing Adkins. United States v. Darby Lumber Co., 312 U.S. 100 (1941) held that all labor standards could be regulated consistently with the Commerce Clause, reversing Hammer. Fair Employment Practices Commission (1941) Employment Act of 1946.
National Labor Relations Act of 1935 § 7 Under section 8 (29 U.S.C. § 158) the law defines a set of prohibited actions by employers, employees, and unions, known as an unfair labor practice. The first five unfair labor practices aimed at employers are in section 8(a). These are, (a)(1) "to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7 ...
Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message (1861) Like slavery, common law repression of labor unions was slow to be undone. In 1806, Commonwealth v. Pullis held that a Philadelphia shoemakers union striking for higher wages was an illegal "conspiracy", even though corporations —combinations of employers—were lawful. Unions still formed and acted. The first federation of unions, the National ...