Articles, tagged with "federal minimum wage", page 2
17th June 2010
The Fair Labor Standards Act, which was passed in 1938, is a federal law that pertains to the United States Law. The law was passed in order to establish fair wages and to ensure that child labor was unfair and not necessary. Throughout the years, the law...
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Author:
Millon & Peskin
23rd April 2010
The labor laws keep getting updated and California labor law posters have to display the correct information to its employees and as a result the State and federal labor law posters have been changing quite often as a lot of legislations have been passes...
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Author:
Cecily
22nd April 2010
There are many ways to avoid wage garnishments from happening, but once a consumer is faced with a wage garnishment, it is very important that they become well versed in the federal wage garnishment laws that are designed to protect them. People can enter...
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Author:
taxattorney
15th April 2010
Various laws operating in state and federal companies demand the employers to go for labor law posters for providing better conditions to the employees. These labor law posters post the information regarding the rights and responsibilities of the employee...
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Author:
Cecily
15th April 2010
Processing employee paychecks can be a time consuming and tedious task. Computations can be a maze of paperwork, transfers of funds to different bank accounts, employee savings accounts, and different government agencies. All businesses are required by ...
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Author:
CPS
13th April 2010
Every employee in the United States is entitled a minimum wage of $7.25per hour that is established by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Aside from this, there are also prevailing minimum wages for every state which do not go below the federal rate.
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Author:
Mesriani Law Group
01st March 2010
There are many ways to avoid wage garnishments from happening, but once a consumer is faced with a wage garnishment, it is very important that they become well versed in the federal wage garnishment laws that are designed to protect them. People ca...
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Author:
Rickey Drake
14th January 2010
In January 2009, many states increased their minimum wage. But in 2010, only a few states change their minimum wage and most of the states are keeping steady.
The state of Kansas increased its minimum wage from $2.65 per hour to 7.25 per hour on Janua...
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Author:
Cecily
11th January 2010
Employees have rights when it comes to getting paid by the company they are working for. When it comes to wage and hour claims there are different protocols they should know.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires companies to pay overtime wages for ...
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Author:
Mesriani
05th January 2010
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulates overtime pay, minimum wage, labor standards for children, and record-keeping which affects most full-time and part-time workers employed by private sectors and federal, state, and local governments.
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Author:
Mesriani Law Group
10th December 2009
To protect the rights of US workers and give them economic advantages, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was amended in 2007 to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 per hour.
In some cases, the federal minimum wage is different from the state's...
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Author:
Mesriani Law Group
04th December 2009
The state minimum wage is always increased according to the economy inflation, while this situation will change. There comes out news that, for the first time, a state minimum wage will be reduced. That's the state of Colorado.
Colorado will reduce t...
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Author:
Cecily
16th September 2009
Employees walk by them almost everyday and seemingly pay no attention, but they should. They spell out their rights and obligations under national and state employment laws. What are they?
These ubiquitous but overlooked bulletin board and wall hanging...
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Author:
Robert Leland
19th August 2009
The federal minimum wage rose from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 in last month. An estimated 2.8 million employees got a minimum wage raise. Another 1.6 million whose hourly pay hovers around $7.25 also got a boost as employers adjust their pay scales to the ne...
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Author:
Cecily
13th August 2009
Recently, the federal minimum wager has risen. As the whole world is facing the economic crises, may companies fire their staff for whatever reasons, as a result the number of those who unfortunate to be out of work also increased.
Under federal minim...
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Author:
Cecily