Benefits Of The FLSA

In 1936 by President Roosevelt who signed the Fair Labor Standard Act(FLSA) making a federal minimum wage of .25 cents an hour (equivalent to $4.18 today)(Grossman) in order to maintain a “minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being, without substantially curtailing employment”. This wage only affected about 20% of the entire labor force. The Fair labor Standards act was not always looked at being the best way to go, when it was enacted just like in today 's society it was fought against to raise the minimum wage. Many corporations were arguing against the creation of the

In 1938, The Fair Labor Standards Act was passed and it amongst many things set a Federal Minimum Wage of 25 cents, regulated the amount of time and employee could work as well as essentially eliminating child labor. Darby Lumber Co. which was in Georgia was charged under Section 15 with violating the Fair Labor Standards Act because he did not pay his employees the minimum wage as well as forced them to work longer hours without overtime pay.

In May 2016, President Obama and Secretary Perez announced The Fair Labor Standards Act, intended to require employers to compensate employees for overtime. The FLSA was designed to extend overtime protections to

For centuries, there has been a common relationship between employers and employees. Over the course of that time, the workplace and the jobs within it have evolved as new jobs were created, ways to execute tasks became more advanced and laws were enacted to put into place fair employment for those in the workforce. In 1938, congress would pass and President Roosevelt would sign the Wages and Hours Bill, more commonly known as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). This federal statute introduced a 44 hour, seven day work week, established the national minimum wage, guaranteed overtime pay in specific types of jobs at a rate of “time and a half”, and it defines oppressive child labor, which prohibits most employment of minors. The FLSA applies to those employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage.

The FLSA today still follows the same principles as it did in the 1930’s, it just has a few changes and additives. Today the FLSA has set the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour. The old FLSA overtime eligibility pay was a yearly salary less than $23,660 but newly, you are eligible for overtime pay if you make less than $47,476 a year. The original FLSA stated that to earn overtime commision, you had to work over thirty-five to forty hours in a week but now the law is strictly over forty hours a week.

The United States has a plethora of labor laws in place to help clarify the rights of workers, employers, and even labor unions. Federal laws, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act helped form the working standards that we still use in today’s society. In the scope of minimum wage policy, The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) helped pioneer the labor force in the US. The FLSA was the first federal statute (that was successfully passed) to introduce the forty-hour workweek, "time-and-a-half" for overtime work, the regulation of child labor, and set a national minimum wage for the first time. Like most federal statutes, adjustments needed to be made over its lifetime.

The Fair Labor Standards Act, also known as FLSA, was created because at the time industries were paying workers unfair wages for the hours they worked. After the FLSA was signed, it set a standard minimum wage at twenty five cents an hour. It also set the maximum amount of hours people can work at a job to forty-four hours a week, and finally it got rid of oppressive child labor, (Jonathan Grossman). Today we still have a minimum wage, but it varies across the states. The forty-four hour workweek was replaced with a forty hour workweek instead.

The federal minimum wage was established in 1938 as a part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA established a number of constraints regarding labor including minimum wage, maximum work week, lowest employee age of 14, and other regulations. The federal minimum wage was “first established during the Depression, and it has risen from 25 cents to $7.25 per hour since” (Wihbey 1). The FLSA was established to protect the citizens and ensure a safe and fair workplace. Minimum wage was specifically included in the FLSA to ensure that employees would not be unfairly working for incredibly low wages. When minimum wage was first introduced to the US, it was determined to be “unconstitutional” in a court case. Since then, the wage has been adjusted for inflation about every 10 years.

The Waterford FFA Chapter has benefited me in many different ways. Holding the office of reporter for two years and president this year, has helped me become a better leader and has improved my leadership skills. The summer before my sophomore year I got the chance to attend WLC (Washington Leadership Conference) in Washington D.C.. I roomed with three girls that lived in different states throughout the United States that i had never met before. This experience along with attending FFA camp every year has helped me open up to people and improve my people skills. Before FFA I would have never even thought about going to any camp or conference where I would of had to learn to talk to people and make friends on my own. I have also been in Parliamentary

There have been similar proposals of this type of legislation throughout history. The first type of similar legislation passed was the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) which was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Grossman, 1978). This act applied to about one-fifth of the labor force but set a minimum wage to twenty-five cents an hour (Grossman, 1978). The minimum wage has increased many times since the initial passing of the FLSA. In 1949, “the minimum wage was raised from 40 cents an hour to 75 cents an hour for all workers and minimum wage coverage was expanded to include workers in the air transport industry” (U.S. Department of Labor, 2015, “Wage and Hour Division”). The federal minimum wage has been increased 22

For potential employees in the United States, one of the first things people want to know is what how much they are going to be paid. Minimum wage has been and continues be a very important topic for workers. The Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted in 1938 to protect our workers during the Great Depression under Franklin Roosevelt. According to the book, Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues, “the Fair Labor Standards Act establishes a minimum wage and overtime pay requirements for workers (Cheeseman, 2016, p.454).”

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a law that states what the lowest amount a business can pay a contracted employee. Currently the law states that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 but there are many states that have their own minimum wage laws. There has been an ongoing protest over minimum wage for a long time and it has been changing consistently ever since 1938 with the latest change in 2009 when it went from $6.55 to $7.25. Many people think it should keep going up but many other people think it is going to hurt our economy if it goes up. There are many things that raising the minimum wage can affect in the economy and there are many steps that go into raising it. I think that the minimum wage should be raised to

On June 25, 1938 President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act is a law made to establish a federal minimum wage, overtime pay, and youth employment standards. Since 1938 the federal minimum wage has been raised 22 times. States are allowed to set their own individual minimum wage laws, and under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers are required to abide by state wage laws. According to The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws “Currently forty-five states and the District of Columbia have individually set their own minimum wage, of which eighteen are higher than $7.25 an hour. Only five

In 1938, the first national minimum wage laws in the United States were passed as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which served as “a floor below wages,” to reduce poverty and to ensure that economic growth is shared across the workforce. Today, many people who work for companies that pay at or near the minimum wage and remain near or below the poverty level rely on government health and food security and income programs to supplement their living expenses. Since 1938, there have been many additional policies to the Fair Labor Standards Act that have changed many things, such as increasing the national minimum wage numerous times to the currently salary level, which was set in 1997. The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, from the United States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, was a policy to change the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 in three additions, which began in July of 2009. (U.S., 2009).

The previous salary threshold that determined whether an employee was entitled to overtime pay was certainly outdated. Being that the majority of workers made over the $23,660 threshold, most American workers weren’t eligible for overtime pay even though their salary alone was barely a living wage. The new FLSA rule provides those who need additional money to support their lifestyle an opportunity to dedicate more of their time to their company in exchange for a fair rate for those additional hours. While this situation may not seem positive to employers, it certainly creates a better work environment for employees. This rule gives the employers the option of either hiring more workers to make sure every essential task is complete or pay those