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Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985), is a landmark United States Supreme Court [1] decision in which the Court held that the Congress has the power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to extend the Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires that employers provide minimum wage and overtime pay to their employees, to state and local governments. [2]
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.
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) holds significant discretion over how the companionship exemption is interpreted and applied in the workplace. Under the DOL's current interpretation, the companionship exemption applies to most home care workers (also known as personal care assistants), allowing their employers—unless they are in a state with regulations superseding those at the ...
An employer in the United States may provide transportation benefits to their employees that are tax free up to a certain limit. Under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 132(a), the qualified transportation benefits are one of the eight types of statutory employee benefits (also known as fringe benefits) that are excluded from gross income in calculating federal income tax.
It provides migrant and seasonal workers with social protections for transportation, housing, with pay, and work-related protections to safeguard them against occupational hazards and ensure better working conditions. Certain farm operators who are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act are also exempt from the MSPA. Farm labor contractors ...
Blocks 34 through 39 list employee data fields pertaining to the position as of the effective date of the SF 50. These blocks list the type of position occupied (34), whether the position is or is not exempt from FLSA (35), the appropriation code (36), bargaining unit status (37), and the code and location of the employee's duty station (38 and ...
The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and amended in 1934 and 1936, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration, and mediation for strikes to resolve labor disputes.
To authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain aliens, and for other purposes. H.R. 7: January 28, 2021: Paycheck Fairness Act: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. H.R. 8 ...