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The New York State Employment Relations Act (SERA), enacted in 1937 and codified at Article 20 of the Labor Law, was designed to cover employees who don't qualify for protection under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 or the Railway Labor Act, particularly for small workplaces.
Under Ontario's Employment Standards Act it is illegal for an employer to "intimidate, dismiss or otherwise penalize an employee or threaten to do so" because the worker has disclosed their own wages or because the worker has inquired about the wages of another worker for the purposes of determining the employer's compliance with the law's Equal Pay for Equal Work provisions.
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.
Employment Standards Act [10] Manitoba: 13: Can work with a permit from Employment Standards. No working from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Can not work more than 20 hours in a school week. 16: Can work in most fields, but may not perform dangerous work. No working from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. 18: Unrestricted; The Employment Standards Code
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, minimum wage and overtime; West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) upholding the legality of the minimum wage, reversing Adkins; United States v. Darby Lumber Co., 312 U.S. 100 (1941) held that all labor standards could be regulated consistently with the Commerce Clause, reversing Hammer
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 ...
Employment standards are social norms (in some cases also technical standards) for the minimum socially acceptable conditions under which employees or contractors are allowed to work. Government agencies (such as the former US Employment Standards Administration) enforce labour law (legislature, regulatory, or judicial).
Living wage protest and march in New York City (2015) The proposed law will inform tax-payers of where their investment dollars go and will hold developers to more stringent employment standards. The proposed act will require developers who receive substantial tax-payer funded subsidies to pay employees a minimum living wage.