The Right to Receive an Honest Day’s Work
The Fair Labor Standards Act and Other Wage-and-Hour Issues
I was once asked the following question: “If you could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law, which would it be?” My answer, without a moment’s hestitation, was the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)—the federal law that governs how many hours employees work and how employers pay them for those hours.
We need to vaporize the FLSA because compliance is impossible. Congress enacted the FLSA during the Great Depression to combat the sweatshops that had taken over our manufacturing sector. In the 70 plus years that have ...
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