These days, the Department of Labor enforces roughly 180 worker protection laws, ranging from pay requirements to parental leave benefits. Other protections are supervised by agencies such as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Below are some of the key federal protections offered to employees.
About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. Water also exists in the air as water vapor, in rivers and lakes, in icecaps and glaciers, in the ground as soil moisture and in aquifers, and even in you and your dog.
But how much of Earth is water â i.e. how much water contributes to the actual mass of the planet? This includes not just the surface of the Earth, but inside as well. In terms of volume, all of the water on Earth works out to about 1.386 billion cubic kilometers (kmÂ³) or 332.5 million cubic miles (miÂ³) of space. But in terms of mas, scientists calculate that the oceans on Earth weight about 1.35 x 10 18 metric tonnes (1.488 x 10 18 US tons), which is the equivalent of 1.35 billion trillion kg, or 2976 trillion trillion pounds.