文档介绍：Employment Law Guide
. Department of Labor
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy
Revised April 2003
Foreword
We at the Department of Labor believe that workers are best protected when employers,
employees and the government work together to protect wages, benefits, pensions,
safety and health.
To this end, we have developed a Department-wide initiative pliance
Assistance, which envisions a cooperative approach toward all stakeholders, especially
small businesses. Compliance plements our aggressive enforcement
of the nation’s worker protection laws.
We have developed a number pliance materials in plain language, including
on-line resources, which help answer questions and make our regulations easier to
understand. The Employment Law Guide, which is available in both English and
Spanish, is one of pliance Assistance tools.
We hope that, through use of this Guide, you will be better equipped ply with
our worker protection rules and regulations. Through this publication, as in all of our
compliance assistance efforts, our goal is to better protect workers by helping both
employers and employees understand our legal standards and meet them.
Elaine L. Chao
Secretary of Labor
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Preface to the Printed Edition
The Employment Law Guide began as a Web-based document. In that
version, the Table of Contents includes certain chapters under more than one
topic heading so that the information in those chapters can be accessed in
more than one way. We have retained this structure for this Guide so that
the two versions will be as similar as possible.
If you have access to the Web, you can go to access the
home page of anization within the Department of Labor that has jurisdiction
over the matter under discussion, and obtain the address and telephone number
from that page.
If you do not have Web access, or if you simply prefer to obtain this information
by telephone, please call the Department’s toll-free information service a