Selected government and professional entities
American Arbitration Association (http://www.adr.org) includes the National Rules for the Resolution of Employment Disputes (Including Mediation and Arbitration Rules) under "Rules/Procedures".
American Bar Association, Section on Labor and Employment (http://www.abanet.org/labor/home.html). has a CLE calendar of events, discussion groups, the full text of Labor Lawyer and committee newsletters and reports.
Department of Labor's (http://www.dol.gov/index.htm) some useful resources are:
DOJ ADA Home Page (http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm) provides the text of regulations and technical assistance materials (http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/publicat.htm), settlement and consent agreements (http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/settlemt.htm), and describes its enforcement policies (http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/enforce.htm).
See also: Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center -
http://www.jan.wvu.edu/links/adalinks.htm
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (http://www.eeoc.gov/) is geared toward the layperson or small business, but includes links to their most commonly applied statutes (http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/laws.html) and regulations (http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/regs/index.html). This site is especially helpful in finding regulations not yet codified. Unfortunately most of the EEOC Compliance Manual is not yet available electronically.
US Merit Systems Protection Board (http://www.mspb.gov/) includes decisions going back to 1994.
National Employment Lawyer's Association (http://www.nela.org/) is the country's only professional organization that is exclusively comprised of lawyers who represent individual employees in cases involving employment discrimination, wrongful termination, employee benefits and other employment-related matters.
National Labor Relations Boar (http://www.nlrb.gov/) includes decisions from 1990 to present (http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/legal/decisions), manuals ( http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/legal/manuals), official forms (http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/forms), and rules and regulations (http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/legal/manuals/rules/).
OSHA (http://www.osha.gov/) includes links to regulations, statutes, manuals (http://www.osha.gov/comp-links.html) and Review Commission Decisions (http://www.oshrc.gov/).
Social Security Administration(http://www.ssa.gov/)
Texas Commission on Human Rights (http://www.texasworkforce.org/customers/rpm/rpmsubcrd.html) governs fair employment and housing practices in Texas.
Texas Department of Insurance Workers Compensation Commission (http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/wc/indexwc.html) includes their regulatory news and reports (http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/commish/index.html)
Court Websites
U.S. supreme court (http://www.supremecourtus.gov)
Fifth circuit court of appeals (http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov)
Texas supreme court (http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/)
Will Yancey's Employment Law Sites (http://www.willyancey.com/emp_law.htm) has good links to a wide variety of employment law related sites.
WorkIndex.com (http://www.workindex.com) An "index of Internet sites relevant to the field of industrial and labor relations developed through a partnership between the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell Univ. and Human Resource Executive magazine." (from the web site).
Last updated: September 15, 2005