Employment Law Research Links
When a person comes under attack at work and decides they want to know more information about employment law and their overall rights, they often don’t know where to turn. From personal experience, I know what it’s like to go on a mad Internet search to find out what applicable laws and statutes are relevant to a race-based complaint at work.
If you are making complaints about race-based workplace abuses, in many cases you aren’t going to necessarily trust your company’s HR department to be extremely truthful. After all, the company HR department isn’t automatically going to behave as a neutral party and may be assisting in efforts to silence your complaint about illegal mistreatment.
I came across an interesting resource. The NOLO web site (a legal resource) has a great research tool that will allow you to look for specific employment law statutes and cases. The site allows you to input key search terms or the title number and section number of a specific U.S. Code—if you already know what you are looking for. The more specific your search terms are, the better your returned results will be.
For instance, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The Civil Rights Act is contained in U.S. Code 42 starting at section 2000e. There is also equal rights information at U.S. Code 42—section 1981. To research these examples on the NOLO site, you would input 42 as the title and 2000e or 1981 as the section.
You can research Federal laws, state laws, U.S. codes (laws made by Congress), the U.S. constitution (you can search the constitution or browse the Bill or Rights), and the Code of Federal Regulations (rules made by federal agencies and executive departments). There are also other links on the site, such as a link to find bills that have not yet become laws and recent laws (called "Public Laws") that have been approved by Congress and signed by the President, but are not yet included in the U.S. Code.
The link to the site is: http://www.nolo.com/statute/federal.cfm
If you are making complaints about race-based workplace abuses, in many cases you aren’t going to necessarily trust your company’s HR department to be extremely truthful. After all, the company HR department isn’t automatically going to behave as a neutral party and may be assisting in efforts to silence your complaint about illegal mistreatment.
I came across an interesting resource. The NOLO web site (a legal resource) has a great research tool that will allow you to look for specific employment law statutes and cases. The site allows you to input key search terms or the title number and section number of a specific U.S. Code—if you already know what you are looking for. The more specific your search terms are, the better your returned results will be.
For instance, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The Civil Rights Act is contained in U.S. Code 42 starting at section 2000e. There is also equal rights information at U.S. Code 42—section 1981. To research these examples on the NOLO site, you would input 42 as the title and 2000e or 1981 as the section.
You can research Federal laws, state laws, U.S. codes (laws made by Congress), the U.S. constitution (you can search the constitution or browse the Bill or Rights), and the Code of Federal Regulations (rules made by federal agencies and executive departments). There are also other links on the site, such as a link to find bills that have not yet become laws and recent laws (called "Public Laws") that have been approved by Congress and signed by the President, but are not yet included in the U.S. Code.
The link to the site is: http://www.nolo.com/statute/federal.cfm
Labels: Federal law, filing complaints, legal decisions, liability/damages
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