For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Labor and Public Employees Committee’s work, index headings include:
Arbitration
Collective Bargaining
Discrimination in Employment
Drugs-Testing
Education-Vocational/Technical
Employment
Employment Testing
Ex-Convicts-Employment
Family and Medical Leave
Fire Departments and Firefighters
Food Service Employees
Heart Disease and Hypertension Benefits
Hours of Work
Job Development
Juveniles-Employment
Labor
Labor-Fringe Benefits
Labor-Law and Legislation
Labor Relations
Labor Supply
Migrant Labor
Minimum Wage
Municipal Officials and Employees
Occupational Safety
Occupational Training
Public Employees – (Political Activity, State, State-Compensation, State-Retirement, State-SEBAC)
Retirement and Pension Systems
School Employees
Social Security
Strikes
Teachers – (Certification and Evaluation, Compensation, Labor Negotiations, Retirement)
Tenure
Trade Unions
Unemployment
Unemployment Compensation
Vocational Rehabilitation
Wages
Welfare
Workers’ Compensation
Workplace Violence
The library assigns topical index headings to all OLR Reports and keeps hard copies of the reports organized by these index headings. Reports from 1994 to the present are in the library’s file cabinets (aka the “vertical files”) in the red-tabbed folders, as well as online in full text. Older reports are in two sets of bound volumes (one set for the 1970s, and one for 1980-1993) on the library’s shelves.
The same index headings the library uses for OLR Reports have been used to organize over 600 subject files of materials such as newspaper clippings, court decisions, press releases, pamphlets, and other resources that would be more difficult to locate if they were dispersed throughout the library’s general collection. The subject files are in the blue-tabbed folders in the file cabinets. (Many of the items in these folders have also been digitized by the library, and their electronic versions can be found in the library’s intranet catalog.)