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  2. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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    The bill would have amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period. [78] The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House. [79 ...

  3. United States v. Darby Lumber Co. - Wikipedia

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    The Darby case came about due to violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), one of many initiatives enacted by President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression and, to date, the most comprehensive to dictate the running of corporations. Roosevelt wanted to unite labor practices in all of the states, as he considered that ...

  4. Minimum Wage Fairness Act - Wikipedia

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    The Minimum Wage Fairness Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to: (1) $8.20 an hour beginning on the first day of the sixth month after the enactment of this Act, (2) $9.15 an hour beginning one year after the date of such initial increase, (3) $10.10 an hour beginning ...

  5. List of Hindi films of 1949 - Wikipedia

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    Title Director Cast Genre Notes Aakhri Paigham a.k.a.The Last Message: Muzammil Khurshid: Muzamil, Shashikala, Prakash Gupta, Yakub Rizvi, Leela Chitnis, Sudha Malhotra, Niranjan Sharma

  6. Walsh–Healey Public Contracts Act of 1936 - Wikipedia

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    Federal Labor Laws, a list from Congressional Digest. The Department in the New Deal and World War II at the US Department of Labor. Text of the Act, 41 USC 35 et seq., at the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute. Compliance Assistance - Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division.

  7. United States labor law - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Paycheck Fairness Act - Wikipedia

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    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. Announced in: the 118th United States Congress: Sponsored by: Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Number of co-sponsors: 216: Legislative history

  9. Company scrip - Wikipedia

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    The coal town was established by out-of-state corporations and fueled by cheap labor provided by European immigrants who came to Appalachia in search of work in the growing coal industry. [ 11 ] The use of coal scrip dates to the late 1800s as coal companies looked for a way to increase their profits (although the stated reason for using scrip ...