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    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half"...
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  • United States v. Darby Lumber Co. (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court)
    a case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, holding that the U.S. Congress had the power under the Commerce...
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    of child workers is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), which came into force during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Child labor provisions...
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    The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 is a US Act of Congress that amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to gradually raise the federal minimum wage...
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    state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 but higher...
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    period, including the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered one of the most important Acts of Congress at the time...
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    waned following the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which implemented federal regulation of child labor with the Supreme Court's approval...
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    Wage and Hour Division (category United States Department of Labor agencies)
    the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The Wage and Hour mission is to promote and achieve compliance with labor standards to protect and...
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    Representatives by Carolyn Maloney (NY). The FABRIC Act is a proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Its aim is to position the United States...
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  • Skidmore v. Swift & Co. (category History of Fort Worth, Texas)
    packing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, brought an action under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to recover overtime, liquidated damages, and attorneys' fees...
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    seeking the maximum compensation for back wages due under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. In 2019, a memo directing lawyers to consult with agency heads...
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    The Minimum Wage Fairness Act (S. 1737) is a bill that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for...
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  • Auer v. Robbins (category United States Department of Labor)
    defer to the Secretary of Labor's interpretation of the regulations. Section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 exempted "bona fide executive...
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    Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended 29 U.S.C. 201, et seq: Sec. 213(c)(1)(c); Sec. 213(c)(3);" (PDF). "The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,...
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    The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see gender...
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  • work towards the establishment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set minimum wage and maximum hour standards nationwide. Beyer's bureau helped...
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  • from labor standards, including but not limited to the absence of minimum wage requirements. In the United States, an exemption in the Fair Labor Standards...
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    of federal minimum hourly wage for the United States (including inflation-adjusted) Average worker's wage Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 History of...
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    Claude Pepper (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Florida)
    prominent liberals in Congress, supporting legislation such as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. After World War II, Pepper's conciliatory views towards the...
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    issue of child labor, The United States enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to prohibit the employment of minors under the age of sixteen...
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    National Labor Relations Act, the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act of 1936 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. In 1944, the jurisdiction of the Public...
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  • Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt (category United States labor case law)
    (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case related to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Michael Hewitt was a toolpusher (a supervisor) on oil rigs...
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    James C. Ho (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
    Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, interpreting a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Ho was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in an opinion...
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    D. Roosevelt, but later found to be unconstitutional. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at 25¢ an hour ($5.41 in 2023). Its purchasing...
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    Fairness Act would amend the portion of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) known as the Equal Pay Act to revise remedies for, enforcement of...
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    New Deal (redirect from Lanham Act of 1940)
    and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set maximum hours and minimum wages for most categories of workers. The FSA was also one of the oversight...
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  • are child-protective labor laws. In the United States, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) restricts the employment of children. The FLSA defines...
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  • decision is based on part-time status as a primary factor. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment...
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  • English) Tables F-G "History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938 – 1996". Department of Labor. January 31, 2015. Archived...
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  • in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 the New Deal successfully ended most child labor outside agriculture. Newsboys sold the latest edition of daily...
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