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  2. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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    Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.

  3. Why do we work 9 to 5? The history of the eight-hour workday

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    Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. - Bettmann/Bettmann/Bettmann Archive The ...

  4. Wage and Hour Division - Wikipedia

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    FLSA: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the federal law commonly known for minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, recordkeeping, and special minimum wage standards applicable to most private and public employees. FLSA provides the agency with civil and criminal remedies, and also includes provisions for individual employees to file ...

  5. List of US states by minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    $5.15 (Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the $7.25 federal minimum wage) ... Average worker's wage; Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938;

  6. Employee compensation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wages adjusted for inflation in the US from 1964 to 2004 Unemployment compared to wages. Wage data (e.g. median wages) for different occupations in the US can be found from the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, [5] broken down into subgroups (e.g. marketing managers, financial managers, etc.) [6] by state, [7] metropolitan areas, [8] and gender.

  7. The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment - AOL

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    Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. ... 15 worked for wages in industrial jobs ...

  8. 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.

  9. ARLENE M. ROBERTS, ESQ

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    A. The Obama administration should revise the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) enacted in 1974, so that the provisions extend coverage to domestic workers - a group that has long been excluded from basic minimum wage and overtime protections. B. The U.S. government should ratify The Convention Concerning Decent Work for