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The Wage and Hour Division was created with the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The Division is responsible for the administration and enforcement of a wide range of laws which collectively cover virtually all private and State and local government employment.
The Employment Standards Administration (ESA) was the largest agency within the U.S. Department of Labor.Its four subagencies enforced and administered laws governing legally mandated wages and working conditions, including child labor, minimum wages, overtime pay, and family and medical leave; equal employment opportunity in businesses with federal contracts and subcontracts; workers ...
1949: Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 81-393; 1953: Small Business Act PL 83-163; 1954: Internal Revenue Code PL 83-591; 1955: Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 84-381; 1958: Small Business Administration extension PL 85-536; 1961: Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 87-30; 1961: Area Redevelopment Act PL 87-27; 1962: Manpower Development and ...
OFCCP administers and enforces three equal employment opportunity laws: Executive Order 11246, as amended; Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. § 4212 (VEVRAA). Collectively, these laws make it illegal for contractors and ...
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 but higher in 29 states and D.C., and discourages working weeks over 40 hours through time-and-a-half overtime pay. There are no federal laws, and few state laws, requiring paid holidays or paid family leave.
The New York Unemployment Insurance Law, enacted in 1935 and codified at Article 18 of the Labor Law, implements US unemployment insurance within New York.. As with most states, the maximum period for receiving benefits is 26 full weeks during a one-year period (benefit year). [4]
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Then, in 1941, the 18th Legislature amended the Oklahoma Unemployment Compensation Law extensively, changing the name to the Oklahoma Security Act, and renamed administration of the Act from the Commissioner of Labor to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. By FY 1940-41, the Department of Labor had been reduced to 16 employees operating ...