Consumer Services Guide (CSG)

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Records Found: 15

Workplace Issues



• California Human Development Corporation (CHDC)

  CHDC is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and provide human services in northern California. Their purpose is to help low-income people secure the education, training, job opportunities and improved social conditions they need to live with independence and greater human dignity.
  
  
• California State Department of Fair Employment and Housing
  The mission of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is to protect Californians from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence. The DFEH's statutory mandate is to protect the people of California from employment, housing and public accommodations discrimination and hate violence pursuant to the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Unruh Civil Rights Act, Disabled Persons Act, and Ralph Civil…
  
  
• Department of Labor (DOL)
  The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the Department…
  
  
• Employees Benefits Security Administration - Dept. of Labor
  The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is committed to educating and assisting the 150 million Americans covered by the 730,000 private retirement plans and six million private health and welfare plans and the plan sponsors and members of the employee benefits community. EBSA promotes voluntary compliance and facilitates self-regulation, working diligently to provide quality assistance to plan participants and beneficiaries.
  
  
• Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR)
  ESGR was established in 1972 to promote cooperation and understanding between Reserve component members and their civilian employers and to assist in the resolution of conflicts arising from an employee’s military commitment. It is the lead DoD (Department of Defense) organization for this mission under DoD Directive 1250.1.
  
  
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
  EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Equal Pay Act; prohibitions against discrimination affecting individuals with disabilities in the federal sector; sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination…
  
  
• Instituto Laboral de la Raza
  For over 27 years, the Instituto Laboral de la Raza has served low income families of California as a nonprofit advocacy and workers’ resource center. Headquartered in the Mission District of San Francisco, with a field office in San Jose, the Instituto provides legal services, peer counseling, financial education and access to a network of services to the unorganized working poor. Most of their clients…
  
  
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - Dept. of Labor
  A division of the U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA regulates health and safety in the workplace. This site offers information, tips and fact sheets about workplace safety, including information on ergonomics.
  
  
• Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) - DOL
  In the FY2001 Department of Labor appropriation, Congress approved an Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) to be headed by an Assistant Secretary. ODEP's mission is to provide leadership to increase employment opportunities for adults and youth with disabilities. ODEP is a federal agency in the Department of Labor. Its customers include: * Individuals with disabilities and their families * Private employers and their employees…
  
  
• Office of Personnel Management
  The Office of Personnel Management is committed to promoting the ideals of public service, championing the Federal workforce, achieving excellence in what we do, advocating for innovative human resources practices, attracting and developing the best people for Federal service.
  
  
• Office of Public Affairs - Department Of Labor
  The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.
  
  
• Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
  The RRB is an independent agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government. The Board’s primary function is to administer comprehensive retirement-survivor and unemployment-sickness benefit programs for the nation’s railroad workers and their families, under the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts.
  
  
• Sonoma WORKS
  The SonomaWORKS Program is designed to help you find a job to support you and your family. The program will help you become an advocate for your own self-sufficiency.
  
  
• Veteran's Employment and Training Service - DOL
  VETS provides Veterans with the resources and services to succeed in the 21st century work force by maximizing their employment opportunities, protecting their employment rights and meeting labor-market demands with qualified Veterans.
  
  
• Women's Bureau - DOL
  The Women's Bureau covers work issues such as sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and family and medical leave, and dependent care (child and/or elder care) policies.