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Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.
Along with the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which decreased the rights of employees and labor unions in the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Portal to Portal Act of 1947 was passed by a Republican Congress to limit rights in enforcing the minimum wage in the United States.
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, not even close to the buying power it once brought workers — which peaked all the way back in the 1960s. ... 1947. Minimum wage: $0. ...
Minimum wage; Right-to-work law; Employment. Unemployment ... In 1947, the U.S. Congress passed the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, ...
The 1938 minimum wage law only applied to "employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce," but in amendments in 1961 and 1966, the federal minimum wage was extended (with slightly different rates) to employees in large retail and service enterprises, local transportation and construction, state ...
There is no official state minimum wage in Louisiana, so the federal minimum wage of $7.25 is the default standard. Tipped workers make the federal tipped minimum wage, $2.13.
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, not even close to the buying power it once brought workers — which peaked all the way back in the 1960s.
Finally, under the Portal to Portal Act of 1947, where Congress limited the minimum wage laws in a range of ways, §254 puts a two-year time limit on enforcing claims, or three years if an employing entity is guilty of a willful violation.