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The
FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth
employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in
Federal, State, and local governments. Covered nonexempt workers are
entitled to a minimum wage of not less than $7.25 per hour effective
July 24, 2009. Overtime pay at a rate not less than one and one-half
times the regular rate of pay is required after 40 hours of work in a
workweek.
The Fair Labor
Standards Act constitutes a step in the direction of communism,
bolshevism, fascism, and Nazism.
The National
Association of Manufacturers. 1938.
The Fair Labor
Standards Act] will destroy small industry….these ideas are the
product of those whose thinking is rooted in an alien philosophy and
who are bent upon the destruction of our whole constitutional system
and the setting up of a red-labor communistic despotism upon the
ruins of our Christian civilization.
Representative
Edward Cox (D-GA). 1938.
The Fair Labor
Standards Act would create chaos in business never yet known to
us.... It sets an all-time high in crackpot legislation. Let me make
it very clear that I am not opposed to the social theory.... No
decent American citizen can take exception to this attitude. What I
do take exception to is any approach to a solution of this problem
which is utterly impractical and in operation would be much more
destructive than constructive to the very purposes which it is
designed to serve.
U.S. Representative
Arthur Phillip Lamneck (D-OH).
Forty
years later, a distinguished news commentator asked incredulously:
"My God! 25 cents an hour! Why all the fuss?" President
Roosevelt expressed a similar sentiment in a "fireside chat"
the night before the signing. He warned: "Do not let any
calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell
you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect
on all American industry."2
In
light of the social legislation of 1978, Americans today may be
astonished that a law with such moderate standards could have been
thought so revolutionary.
Paul
Hunter budhunter@frontier.com
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