Workplace Regulation: Information on Selected Employer and Union Experiences.Volume 1

摘要

With the Secretaries of Labor's and Commerce's Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations examining these and other issues, the Chairmen and Ranking Minority Members of the House Education and Labor Committee and its Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations requested that GAO study issues related to the framework of federal workplace regulation. Specifically, they asked GAO to (1) identify and analyze the characteristics ofhte major statutes comprising the framework and (2) describe the actual experiences of a wide range of employer and employee representatives with workplace regulation. To address these issues, GAO surveyed the literature and consulted with experts to identify and analyze the major statutes and executive orders on workplace regulation, and interviewed a broad range of 26 employers and union and employee committee representatives of organizations of varying sizes and industries and in different states to determine their actual experiences operating under these statutes. The requesters realized that those interviewed will not be representative of all employers and unions, but nevertheless believe that the results will be useful.