What is The Fair Labor Standards Act?
What is The Fair Labor Standards Act?
Jacqueline Daniels
ACCT 1130 Payroll Accounting
Tomeika Williams
February 5, 2014
Abstract
“The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 is one of the most important pieces of legislation ever enacted, giving a voice to the millions of Americans in our workforce.” (Resource FLSA Law , 2006)
Keywords: workforce What is The Fair Labor Standards Act?
In 1983, President Roosevelt retained the Fair Labor Standards Act, which legitimately established many of the workplace privileges we appreciate today. “The Fair Labor Act launches minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor principles affecting full-time and part-time workers in the remote division and in Federal, State, and local governments.” The bill also assumed that any hours operated over 40 in one workweek would necessitate pay rate of time and a half. It was this union-endorsed notice that gave Americans the weekend. The contents of the paper will answer the following questions:
1. How the acted was started?
2. Who is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act?
3. How has the act advanced since its depiction date? How the Acted was Started
On Saturday, June 25, 1938, to evade abridged vetoes 9 days after Congress had recessed, President Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted 121 bills. Amongst these bills was a milestone law in the Nation’s social and economic development-Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). Against a history of judicial resistance, the depression-born FLSA had subsisted, not undamaged, more than a year of Congressional exchange. In its concluding form, the act applied to industries whose combined service characterized only about one-fifth of the labor force. In the commerce, it banned unfair child labor and set the least possible hourly wage at 25 cents, and the maximum workweek at 44 hours.
Who is Covered by the Fair Standards Act
The Supreme has made it clear that the FLSA was not
Jacqueline Daniels
ACCT 1130 Payroll Accounting
Tomeika Williams
February 5, 2014
Abstract
“The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 is one of the most important pieces of legislation ever enacted, giving a voice to the millions of Americans in our workforce.” (Resource FLSA Law , 2006)
Keywords: workforce What is The Fair Labor Standards Act?
In 1983, President Roosevelt retained the Fair Labor Standards Act, which legitimately established many of the workplace privileges we appreciate today. “The Fair Labor Act launches minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor principles affecting full-time and part-time workers in the remote division and in Federal, State, and local governments.” The bill also assumed that any hours operated over 40 in one workweek would necessitate pay rate of time and a half. It was this union-endorsed notice that gave Americans the weekend. The contents of the paper will answer the following questions:
1. How the acted was started?
2. Who is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act?
3. How has the act advanced since its depiction date? How the Acted was Started
On Saturday, June 25, 1938, to evade abridged vetoes 9 days after Congress had recessed, President Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted 121 bills. Amongst these bills was a milestone law in the Nation’s social and economic development-Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). Against a history of judicial resistance, the depression-born FLSA had subsisted, not undamaged, more than a year of Congressional exchange. In its concluding form, the act applied to industries whose combined service characterized only about one-fifth of the labor force. In the commerce, it banned unfair child labor and set the least possible hourly wage at 25 cents, and the maximum workweek at 44 hours.
Who is Covered by the Fair Standards Act
The Supreme has made it clear that the FLSA was not
References: Resource FLSA Law . (2006, 09 28). Retrieved 2 05, 2014, from Recent Changes to Fair Labor Standards Act: http://www.resource4flsalaw.com Repa, B. (2014). Employee Rights. Retrieved 2 5, 2014, from Nolo Law for All: http://www.nolo.com