ETS Business Major Field Test: Legal Environment

The FTC is a bipartisan federal agency with a unique dual mission to protect consumers and promote competition.

The Bureau of Competition seeks to prevent anticompetitive mergers and other anticompetitive business practices in the marketplace.

Bureau of Consumer Protection's mandate is to protect consumers against unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices.

The Bureau provides economic analysis and support to antitrust and consumer protection investigations and rulemakings. It also analyzes the impact of government regulation on competition and consumers and provides Congress, the Executive Branch and the public with economic analysis of market processes as they relate to antitrust, consumer protection, and regulation.

The mission of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.

ILAB’s mission is to use all available international channels to improve working conditions, raise living standards, protect workers’ ability to exercise their rights, and address the workplace exploitation of children and other vulnerable populations around the world.