New Zealand passed the world’s first national minimum wage laws way back in 1894.This minimum wage law covered all businesses and all industries across the entire country. Australia (specifically, Victoria), was the second jurisdiction in the world to pass minimum wage laws. At first, Victoria...
Minimum Wage: Federal Minimum Wage requirements by state Author: Meryl Gutterman, Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C. Summary The Fair Labor Standards Act requires an employer to pay all nonexempt employees at least the federal minimum wage (currently $7.25 an hour) for all hours worked. See Minimu...
What is the effect of minimum wage regulation on youth crime? Masanori Hashimoto, of Ohio State University, argues that in the USA the evidence suggests that the minimum wage causes both unemployment and teenage crime.MasanoriMasanoriHashimoto
The purpose of this ACC guide (InfoPAK) is to provide employers and their counsel with an overview and practical tools regarding common wage and hour issues under US law, including the 2016 changes to the overtime regulations that will dramatically expand the group of employees who subject to ...
President Obama first proposed these changes two years ago, but business and health care lobbying groups have staunchly opposed including workers who provide direct care to the elderly and disabled in the Fair labor Standards Act. When the law, first passed in 1938, was updated in 1974, it inc...
Even though many forms of gambling are legal under [federal law], each state has different laws that relate to gambling. That might sound strange to those located outside the US, but most residents will be used to these differences; real estate law and taxation are two other entities that ...
Minimum Wage requirements for other states Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section. Author: Scott E. Schaffer, Schaffer Law, LLC Summary Connecticut's minimum wage is $15.69 per hour. Connecticut regulations also establish minimum requirements for emp...
Today, the minimum wage law (the FLSA) applies to employees of enterprises that do at least $500,000 in business a year. It also applies to employees of smaller firms if the employees are engaged in interstatecommerceor in the production of goods for commerce, such as employees who work i...
In June 2014, Seattle made history when its city council signed into law a mandate to raise the minimum wage for all workers in the city to $15 per hour. The city became the first in the U.S. to have a $15 minimum wage. At that time, no other city had a minimum wage that was...
The minimum wage has been a political issue since its inception. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in 1933, five years before the first minimum wage became law, that “...by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level—I mean the wages of a decent living.” The first ...