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.

• 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 .

• 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.

• 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.

• Primary Sources of American Law

  • The primary sources of American Law are: constitutional law, statutory law, treaties, administrative regulations, and the common law.
  • These sources are constitutional law, statutory law, treaties, administrative regulations, and the common law.

• Judicial Activism and Restraint

  • The question of judicial activism is closely related to constitutional interpretation, statutory construction and separation of powers.

• Inherent Powers

  • In the United States, the President derives these powers from the loosely worded statements in the Constitution that "the executive Power shall be vested in a President" and that the President should "take care that the laws be faithfully executed"; defined through practice rather than through constitutional or statutory law.

• Roving Wiretaps

  • The NSA surveillance controversy involves legal issues that fall into two broad disciplines: statutory interpretation and Constitutional law.
  • Statutory interpretation is the process of interpreting and applying legislation to the facts of a given case.

• Common Law

  • State courts are able to do this in the absence of constitutional or statutory provisions replacing the common law.
  • All states have a legislative branch which enacts state statutes, an executive branch that promulgates state regulations pursuant to statutory authorization, and a judicial branch that applies, interprets, and occasionally overturns state statutes, regulations, and local ordinances.