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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.
The Oklahoma State Federation of Labor was founded in 1906 by members of the Twin-Territories Federation of Labor in preparation for statehood. The organization worked to influence the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. Their member, Pete Hanraty served as the vice-president of the convention.
He served as the 12th governor of Oklahoma from 1943 to 1947 and was elected three times to the United States Senate. Kerr worked natural resources, and his legacy includes water projects that link the Arkansas River via the Gulf of Mexico. He was the first Oklahoma governor born in the territory of the state.
These rights are found in "Section 7" (29 U.S.C. §157) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA, or the Act), and are often referred to as Section 7 protections. [2] Generally speaking, there is protected concerted activity when two or more employees act together to improve the terms and conditions of their employment.
The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma dedicated to promotion and preservation of Oklahoma's history and its people by collecting, interpreting, and disseminating knowledge and artifacts of Oklahoma. The mission of the OHS is to collect, preserve, and share the history and culture of the state of ...
3rd Oklahoma Legislature: November 28, 1910 4th Oklahoma Legislature: January 7, 1913 5th Oklahoma Legislature: January 5, 1915 6th Oklahoma Legislature: January 2, 1917 7th Oklahoma Legislature: January 7, 1919 8th Oklahoma Legislature: January 4, 1921 9th Oklahoma Legislature: January 2, 1923 10th Oklahoma Legislature: January 6, 1925 11th ...
An Organic Act is a generic name for a statute used by the United States Congress to describe a territory, in anticipation of being admitted to the Union as a state. . Because of Oklahoma's unique history (much of the state was a place where aboriginal natives have always lived and after forced removal many other tribes were relocated here) an explanation of the Oklahoma Organic Act needs a ...
Map of the Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory from the period preceding statehood in 1907. The "Oklahoma lands" — the entire future state of Oklahoma with the exception of the narrow western panhandle — were first set aside as a site to which Native American populations were to be deported from their ancestral homelands in the 1830s. [1]