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Generally, an employer with at least $500,000 of business or gross sales in a year satisfies the commerce requirements of the FLSA, [6] and therefore that employer's workers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act's protections if no other exemption applies. Several exemptions exist that relieve an employer from having to meet the statutory ...
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.
Some fringe benefits (for example, accident and health plans, and group-term life insurance coverage (up to US$50,000) (and employer-provided meals and lodging in-kind, [22]) may be excluded from the employee's gross income and, therefore, are not subject to federal income tax in the United States. Some function as tax shelters (for example ...
The Trump administration ordered thousands of federal employees back to work without pay on Tuesday, raising questions over whether it’s legal in America to make people work for free.
In a later 2009 case, Mann Frankfort Stein & Lipp Advisors, Inc. v. Fielding, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a covenant not to compete in an at-will employment agreement is also enforceable if the employee expressly promises not to disclose confidential information, but the employer makes no express return promise to provide confidential ...
Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 328 U.S. 680 (1946), is a decision by the US Supreme Court that held that preliminary work activities, if controlled by the employer and performed entirely for the employer's benefit, are properly included as working time under Fair Labor Standards Act. [1] The decision is known as the "portal to portal case."
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which was upheld in United States v. Darby Lumber Co., [4] was later amended to remove state exemptions pertaining to employees of state institutions. The FLSA imposed on all public employers certain minimum wage standards and maximum work hours limitations.
The year 2020 was historically bizarre (to put it kindly), but 2021 wasn't exactly smooth sailing. Sure, the U.S economy partly rebounded from the initial blows of the pandemic; and, for a precious...