U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition: Social Security Administration

[Excerpt] The Social Security Administration manages the Nation’s social insurance program—consisting of retirement, survivors, and disability insurance programs—commonly known as Social Security. It also administers the Supplemental Security Income program for the aged, blind, and disabled. The Administration is responsible for studying the problems of poverty and economic insecurity among Americans and making recommendations on effective methods for solving these problems through social insurance. The Administration also assigns Social Security numbers to U.S. citizens and maintains earnings records for workers under their Social Security numbers

U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition: Office of Personnel Management

[Excerpt] The Office of Personnel Management administers a merit system to ensure compliance with personnel laws and regulations and assists agencies in recruiting, examining, and promoting people on the basis of their knowledge and skills, regardless of their race, religion, sex, political influence, or other nonmerit factors. Its role is to provide guidance to agencies in operating human resources programs which effectively support their missions and to provide an array of personnel services to applicants and employees. The Office supports Government program managers in their human resources management responsibilities and provides benefits to employees, retirees, employed annuitants, and their survivors

U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition: National Labor Relations Board

[Excerpt] The National Labor Relations Board is vested with the power to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions and to safeguard employees’ rights to organize and determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative

Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations; Request for Comments

Notice_Federal_Register_063093.pdf: 123 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

[Excerpt] The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforces laws which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age in hiring, promoting, firing, setting wages, testing, training, apprenticeship, and all other terms and conditions of employment. The Commission conducts investigations of alleged discrimination; makes determinations based on gathered evidence; attempts conciliation when discrimination has taken place; files lawsuits; and conducts voluntary assistance programs for employers, unions, and community organizations. The Commission also has adjudicatory and oversight responsibility for all compliance and enforcement activities relating to equal employment opportunity among Federal employees and applicants, including discrimination against individuals with disabilities

Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations; Notice of Closing the Public Record

Notice_Federal_Register_041894.pdf: 96 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition (Appendix B): Terminated and Transferred Agencies

233AA354d01.pdf: 85 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations; Notice of Public Hearing

Notice_Federal_Register_092193.pdf: 1587 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition: Federal Labor Relations Authority

[Excerpt] The Federal Labor Relations Authority oversees the Federal service labor-management relations program. It administers the law that protects the right of employees of the Federal Government to organize, bargain collectively, and participate through labor organizations of their own choosing in decisions affecting them. The Authority also ensures compliance with the statutory rights and obligations of Federal employees and the labor organizations that represent them in their dealings with Federal agencies

U.S. Government Manual 2008-2009 Edition: Department of Labor

[Excerpt] The purpose of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws guaranteeing workers’ rights to safe and healthful working conditions, a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay, freedom from employment discrimination, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation. The Department also protects workers’ retirement and health care benefits; provides for job training programs; helps workers find jobs; works to strengthen free collective bargaining; and keeps track of changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. As the Department seeks to assist all Americans who need and want to work, special efforts are made to meet the unique job market problems of older workers, youths, minority group members, women, individuals with disabilities, and other groups