Record Numbers of Workers File FLSA Lawsuits
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For Auld Lang Syne: The History of Minimum Wage by Matilde Keith, PHR on January 29, 2013 Although some states and companies imposed minimum wage rates in the early 1900’s, it didn’t become federal law...
View ArticleExempt or Non-Exempt, That is the Question
Exempt or Non-Exempt, That is the Question by Edward Grayson, SPHR on April 8, 2014 Working conditions were different in 1938 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt led efforts to pass the Fair Labor...
View ArticlePay Now or Pay Later: Hawaii’s Fat Law’s Farm and the US Department of Labor
Pay Now or Pay Later: Hawaii’s Fat Law’s Farm and the US Department of Labor The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is geared up for another busy year of investigating wage and hour...
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