Protection From Unlawful
Discrimination Prohibits harassment and discrimination in personnel actions based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, or disability.
Family and Medical Leave
Provides rights and protections for employees taking or requesting leave for specified family and medical reasons.
Fair Labor Standards
Requires the payment of minimum wage and overtime compensation to nonexempt employees, restricts child labor, and prohibits sex-based wage differentials.
Polygraph Testing Prohibition
Generally prohibits requiring or requesting that an employee take a lie detector test; using, accepting, or inquiring about the results of a lie detector test; or firing or discriminating against an employee based on the results of a lie detector test or for refusing to take a test.
Notification of Office Closings and Mass Layoffs
Under certain circumstances, requires that employees be notified of an office closing or of a mass layoff at least 60 days in advance of the event.
Uniformed Services Rights and Protections
Protects the job rights of individuals who leave employment positions to undertake military service and prohibits discrimination on the basis of present or past membership in the uniformed services.
Protection for Exercising Workplace Rights
Prohibits employing offices from intimidating or retaliating against employees who exercise their rights under the CAA.
Accessibility
Protects members of the public with qualified disabilities from being denied access to public services, programs, activities, or places of public accommodation in the legislative branch.
Hazard-free Workspaces
Requires employing offices to comply with occupational safety and health standards and to provide workplaces free of recognized hazards.
Collective Bargaining and Unionization
Protects the rights of certain legislative branch employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization or to refrain from such activity.
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination and Privacy
Prohibits the use of genetic information as a basis for personnel actions.
Veterans’ Employment Opportunities
Gives eligible veterans enhanced access to certain job opportunities and establishes a redress system in the event that their veterans’ preference rights are violated.
