Fair Labor Standards Act

in these factories. The use of child labor in the U.S. stayed legal until nineteen thirty eight when the Fair labor standards act was passed. This law required business to pay children a minimum wage determined by each state. This law also regulated the amount of hours a child can work a week. The fight against the use of Child labor was led by many political officials and parents across the united states. One of these activists was Grace Abbott. “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound…

work for. The unique developing labor force is also growing at a rapid pace. According to a report by Emergent Research and MBO Partners, there are approximately 30 million full-time and part-time independent workers in the “gig economy” (Gillespie, 2016). The gig economy is an environment where temporary positions are common and companies contract directly with independent workers for a short time (whatis.techtarget.com). To simplify, the gig economy is hiring labor on demand. Examples of…

hard to pass a bill through the congress, 200 organizations promised to support raising the minimum wage and help in passing the bill. This article is quiet organized with dates and simple in understanding its information, and described the congress act toward the minimum…

America is rooted on its ability to grow businesses and prosper. Basically, money is the blood in the body known as the United States of America. Ironically, it takes money to make money. Meaning that to uphold any business, money has to be used to create the foundation, and once the foundation is set, money is needed to keep the business circulating healthily. The main way to do that is to adamantly supply and cover the workers of the business, because they are truly the backbone of the entire…

deals with is the high amount of money that the company loans each year. Political and legal factors that Quicken Loans has faced was becoming the defendant in a class action lawsuit in 2004. Employees accused Quicken Loans for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act and failing to compensate them for overtime work. In 2011, a federal judge ruled in favor of Quicken Loans. The demographic aspect of Quicken Loans includes where the organization takes place and who has access to it. Quicken Loans…

At this viewpoint, organizations employ, take, use and throw away their employees whenever they do not need their services any longer. The image shows how transnational corporations exploit labor from their host communities and how they achieve their objectives through the global economy. When I found a job, one employee left under unclear circumstances while the company laid off the other. In others words, the image suggests that organizations…

workers’ cleaning supplies. What they own is a marketplace with two sides – [the people who need a job done and those willing to do the job]” (Kessler). It could be that the gig economy is a fad – a going concern, if you will. Yet, with the changing labor laws and the ever-increasing technology, it is more likely that the gig economy is only the beginning of a…

The changes in the types of benefits provided by employers over the past decade have been excessive. Benefits have always been used as a non-wage bargaining tool when recruiting workers for the company. They types of perks offered can make or break the company when competing for the workforce. From how benefits started out, to what they are now, and how they are improving the improvement can be see and help employees recognize if they are being appreciated. The use of employee benefits was…

explains in her research that, “The waiters...created their own system of allocating customers to particular waiters...a kind of hierarchy that assigns customers to the waiters who had worked at the restaurant the longest.” Of course, that seems like a fair system those who have worked there longer should receive seniority. However, female waiters argued that the system was also dependent upon the race of the male waiters (Crous). Crous continues by stating, “Many of the female waiters suggested…

the time, the U.C.C. holds traders to a higher standard. Under the U.C.C., a trader is one who…