Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [1]
Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426 (1917), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a ten-hour work day, which was accepted for both men and women, [1] but the state minimum-wage laws were not changed until 20 years later.
Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426 (1917) in a change of policy, the US Supreme Court held the 10-hour working day was constitutional; Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919) after Eugene Debs protested World War I publicly he was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Supreme Court held this was lawful. Debs won a large number of ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The bill has drawn the opposition of organized labor groups and others, including an employment law attorney. Federal law does not require employers to offer lunch or rest breaks, and Pratt said ...
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985), is a landmark United States Supreme Court [1] decision in which the Court held that the Congress has the power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to extend the Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires that employers provide minimum wage and overtime pay to their employees, to state and local governments. [2]
The bill would repeal Kentucky’s requirement that employers provide at least a 10 minute “rest break” to employees for each four hours of work.
The Supreme Court declared an Alabama law, which fined and imprisoned a picketer, to be unconstitutional. [342] The Supreme Court held unions could write newspaper publications to advocate for pro-labor political candidates. [343] It also held a union could distribute political leaflets in non-work areas of the employer's property. [344]