The nominal amount in annualgross salesor other business that makes an employer subject to the full requirements of the FLSA. However, employees of firms that are not covered enterprises may still be subject to its minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and child labor provisions if they...
The U.S. federal minimum wage was first introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 at 25 cents per hour (about $5 per hour in 2024 dollars). This was part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which also addressed youth employment standards, overtime pay, and more. Prior ...
1961: Congress amends the FLSA to cover more workers, but also allows retail and service businesses to hire full time students at wages of 15 percent below the minimum, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’shistory of changes to the law. ...
ST. CLOUD -- A local museum is honoring one of their own with an annual award. The Stearns History Museum announced this week that the 2021 Zapp Historian Award will go to longtime employee John Decker. Decker began his 44-year career at the museum in 1977 after receiving his bachelor’s...
a place where, as Jermaine Dupri puts it in our oral history,“you can go on Monday night and stand beside a millionaire, the biggest thief in Atlanta, the biggest drug dealer in Atlanta, the police, and one of the biggest rappers or R&B artists in the world—all in the same room....