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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.
According to the FLSA, unless exempt, employees are entitled to receive overtime pay of at least "time-and-a-half", or one and one-half times normal pay, for all time worked past forty hours a week. Some exemptions to this rule apply to public service agencies or to employees who meet certain requirements in accordance to their job duties along ...
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.
In the United States, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) restricts the employment of children. The FLSA defines the minimum age for employment to 14 years for non-agricultural jobs with restrictions on hours, restricts the hours for youth under the age of 16, and prohibits the employment of children under the age of 18 in occupations ...
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[13] The FLSA does, however, define the eight-hour day and thus sets the maximum workweek at 40 hours, [14] but provides that employees working beyond 40 hours a week receive additional overtime bonus salaries. [15] However, in practice, only 42% of employees work 40-hour weeks. The average workweek for full-time employees is 47 hours. [16]
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