Crs Report for Congress : The Fair Labor Standards ACT: Minimum Wage in the 108th Congress: December 16, 2003 - Rl30993 downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI
Crs Report for Congress : The Fair Labor Standards ACT: Minimum Wage in the 108th Congress: December 16, 2003 - Rl30993 downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI

Crs Report for Congress : The Fair Labor Standards ACT: Minimum Wage in the 108th Congress: December 16, 2003 - Rl30993. William G Whittaker

Crs Report for Congress : The Fair Labor Standards ACT: Minimum Wage in the 108th Congress: December 16, 2003 - Rl30993
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Author: William G Whittaker
Page Count: 30 pages
Published Date: 06 Nov 2013
Publisher: Bibliogov
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781294255925
File size: 20 Mb
Download Link: Crs Report for Congress The Fair Labor Standards ACT Minimum Wage in the 108th Congress December 16, 2003 - Rl30993
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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the primary federal statute in the fields of minimum wages, overtime pay, and child labor. In the 108th Congress, legislation has been introduced that would modify the Act in each of these areas and that would extend the Act's minimum wage protections to workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Some of these proposals are broad and sweeping; others concern technical and narrowly focused issues. This report deals only with the minimum wage aspects of the Act. Other components of the FLSA are considered in separate CRS products. Following several decades of discussion and research in academic and policy circles, Congress adopted the FLSA in 1938. However, the Act is a living statute which Congress has variously modified through the years in response to altered public policy and workplace realities. It has undergone major amendment on eight separate occasions, in addition to periodic less extensive adjustments. Currently, the general minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. There are, however, a number of specialized minima: for example, a sub-minimum wage for youth, special calculation of the rate as it affects tipped employees, a reduced wage structure for persons with disabilities, etc. Early ...

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