Matching Pairs Business Law Game #2Online version matching game with different laws that apply to businesses by Stephanie Ganser 1 Employment and Labor Law 2 Federal Trade Commission 3 U.S. Department of Labor 4 Securities Law 5 Intellectual property law 6 Tax laws 7 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 8 Bankruptcy laws 9 Indiana Department of Revenue (IDR) 10 Antitrust laws 11 Finance law 12 Advertising and marketing laws 13 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) oversees and regulates advertising and marketing law as well as privacy laws Covers trademarks, patents and copyrights This agency oversees trading on stock exchanges and other modes of security transfers. It makes sure the businesses trading comply with certain financial and reporting requirements to protect traders. legislation that regulates trade and commerce, to make sure that businesses compete fairly. They prevent, for example, price fixing and monopolies. These laws promote competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive business practices. Covers antitrust, bankruptcy, and securities laws to protect the financial interests of small businesses and individual investors. These are the laws that cover the rules pertaining to taxes, including income tax, property tax and sales tax. If a business sells publicly traded securities like stocks or bonds on a securities exchange then the business needs to comply with certain financial and reporting obligations. These rules are designed to make trading securities fair and to ensure illegal activities, such as insider trading, do not occur. These laws cover everything from preventing discrimination and harassment in the workplace, workplace poster requirements, wage and hour laws and workers’ compensation regulations. This agency oversees federal employment and labor law; however, individual states also have their own specific laws. These laws impact many areas of business, including how products are labeled, how email and telemarketing campaigns can be conducted, the type of health and environmental claims that can be made about a product or service, as well as how a business can advertise to children. These laws allow a debtor who cannot pay his debts resolve his financial dilemma. The laws guide the disposition of available assets to creditors and then relieve the debtor of the remaining liabilities. This agency handles Indiana taxes. This agency handles taxes on the federal level.