The federal law that undergirds most of what you think you know about how employers have to pay employees, known as the "Fair Labor Standards Act" ("FLSA"), was enacted more than 80 years ago – in 1938. There were laws before the FLSA that addressed employees' wages and hours worked...
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When Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the FLSA in 1938, his intention was to have the minimum wage support fully-employed adult men and women, and he vehemently believed thatthe minimum wage should be a living wage. Today, the argument is much different. The standard of living in the United...