statutory protections

Examples of statutory protections in the following topics:

• Employment Policy

  • These federal laws do not apply to employees of state and local governments, agricultural workers and domestic employees; any statutory protections these workers have derived from state law.
  • Federal and state laws protect workers from employment discrimination.
  • Federal law permits states to enact their own statutes barring discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin and age, so long as the state law does not provide less protections than federal law would.
  • The FLSA does not preempt state and local governments from providing greater protections under their own laws.
  • Public employees in both federal and state government are also typically covered by civil service systems that protect them from unjust discharge.

• Digital Media and Intellectual Property Issues

  • Although copyright laws protecting intellectual property are considered territorial and restricted to the territory of their origin, most countries are parties to at least one or more international copyright agreement.
  • To protect their intellectual property both offline and online, businesses that rely heavily on copyright protection laws have advocated the extension and expansion of copyrights to the digital space.
  • In addition to protecting the financial incentives of intellectual property, the WIPO treaty and several related international agreements are based on the premise that protecting intellectual property rights is essential to maintaining economic growth.
  • Not only does the protection of intellectual property give statutory expression to individuals and organizations in their creations, it also gives public rights for access to those creations.
  • These protections are also meant to promote creativity, the dissemination and application of the creation, and encourage fair trading to promote economic and social development.

• Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)

  • Membership interests in LLCs and partnership interests are also afforded a significant level of protection through the charging order mechanism.
  • less risk to be stolen by fire-sale acquisitions (more protection against hungry investors).
  • State laws regarding stock corporations that are very well developed and provide for a variety of governance and protective provisions for the corporation and its shareholders.
  • However, most states do not dictate detailed governance and protective provisions for the members of a limited liability company.
  • Thus, in the absence of such statutory provisions, the members of an LLC must establish governance and protective provisions pursuant to an operating agreement or similar governing document.

• The First and Fourth Amendments and Issues of Terrorism and Security

  • The protection of private conversations has been held to apply only to conversations where the participants have manifested a reasonable expectation that no other party is listening in on their conversation.The Fourth Amendment does not apply in the absence of such a reasonable expectation, and surveillance without warrant does not violate it.
  • Verdugo-Urquidez, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that the Constitution does not extend protection to non-U.S. persons located outside of the United States.
  • The Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 is a statutory procedure for a "whistleblower" in the intelligence community to report concerns with the propriety of a secret program .

• Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Generally, employees of a company who does at least $500,000 of business or gross sales in a year will be subject to the FLSA's protections.
  • Several exemptions exist that relieve an employer from having to meet the statutory minimum wage, overtime, and record-keeping requirements.

• Independent Agencies

  • Unlike in executive departments, the leaders of agencies can only be removed from office for corruption charges under statutory provisions.
  • Other independent executive agencies include the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
  • The EPA was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.

• Government Regulation

  • the US Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy is an example of government regulation.
  • Professional conduct - the regulation of members of professional bodies, either acting under statutory or contractual powers.

• Tax Rate

  • A statutory tax rate is the legally imposed rate.
  • An income tax could have multiple statutory rates for different income levels, whereas a sales tax may have a flat statutory rate.

• Defending the Nation

  • Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President (statutory), the Secretary of State (statutory), the Secretary of Treasury (non-statutory), the Secretary of Defense (statutory), and the National Security Advisor (non-statutory).

• Devolution

  • Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from central government to government at a regional, local, or state level.
  • Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from central government to government at a regional, local, or state level.