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The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 2003 (ADA)

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In the United States, there are many federal labor or employment laws that are set in place to protect not only employees but employers as well. Some of the most important federal labor and employment laws are, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAA), The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). All of these laws do achieve its intended purposes.
First off, we have The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAA) which makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment against a qualified individual with a disability. Next, The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibited most …show more content…

The name of the law basically sums up what the law is for. The law is for when an employee have a medical or family emergency where he or she will need to leave work of a lengthy amount of time. According to Wikipedia, “The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. ... The FMLA was intended "to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families"(Wikipedia). This is a very important law, especially today because more and more women are giving birth and people need medical procedures all the time, which brings me to why this law was created in the first

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