When crafting an internship program, make sure it complies with the U.S. Labor Department's Fair Labor Standards Act, says Joseph H.
This is surely not an outcome sought by those who advocate revising the rules of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
In the U.S., President Franklin Roosevelt spearheaded the federal charge for the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that was passed in 1938.
One of the most promising ways to do the latter is to adopt another piece of bipartisan legislation: the Open Fuels Standards Act.
The plaintiff sued over violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, planning to lead a class of fellow employees who say they were denied adequate break time.
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The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938 to protect the rights of workers, has recently become a bonanza for private attorneys and a potential disaster for employers.
There's also a motion under Section 4A (2) of the Parliamentary Standards Act, which (if I read it aright) concerns the Commons power to punish MPs by withholding salaries.
The law, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, requires an employer to provide a reasonable break time for a woman to express breast milk for her nursing child.
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"Our lawyers concluded that in the absence of a statement to the contrary from Congress, the Fair Labor Standards Act would apply, " domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed told The Associated Press.
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Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), prevailing employees can recover double damages for up to three years of lost overtime or other pay, as well as their costs and legal fees.
In his book, When Affirmative Action Was White, Ira Katznelson details how supposedly color blind legislation and programs -such as the GI Bill and the Fair Labor Standards Act - were manipulated to exclude blacks.
Class actions involving credit reporting laws, debt collection and federal laws like the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act also can probably proceed, although the rules in this area get a little trickier.
Under heavy pressure from unions to rule as it did, the administration made its decision following a Labor Department assessment that public sector work, from cleaning streets to processing government forms, qualified as work under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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BBC, by contrast, can set programming standards and act as a training ground so long as it produces its own programmes.
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In order to provide accountability in state retirement systems, The Act applies standards similar to Sarbanes-Oxley to the principal executive and financial officers of the State.
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Some want to undermine the No Child Left Behind Act by weakening standards and accountability.
Importantly, if the employee is underperforming, document performance, follow appropriate standards within the organization and act without delay.
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They are expected to adhere to lofty standards of behaviour and should act as a role model for pupils.
He was jailed for four months last year for breaching the Enterprise Act but trading standards officers continued to investigate him.
Introducing free secondary education for all, the 1944 Education Act was by any standards a ground-breaking piece of legislation.
New reporting requirements that stock exchanges have ordered in response to high-profile scandals, together with tougher auditing standards under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, have pushed boards and managers to become far more diligent in reporting accurate financial information.
An inspectorate based on the Healthcare Commission (see article) would act to ensure that quality standards were met.
In light of these developments, Treasury has concluded that the standards identified in Section 3004 of the Act during the period covered in this Report have not been met with respect to China.
Mr Day, until recently the finance minister of Alberta which, this summer, passed a law allowing private for-profit clinics that could keep patients overnight for surgery has had difficulty explaining that the flexibility he urges to make the system more efficient will not produce a two-tier system nor weaken the Canada Health Act, which guarantees national standards.
In America, for instance, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) introduced security standards for personal health data.
But for the last decade banks have been required to meet similar internal-control standards under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act.
Mackey said the vast majority of the force's 50, 000 or so staff, including 32, 000 officers, "act with the professionalism and high standards we expect, " and that unacceptable behavior would be challenged.
Beijing Times says authorities must also act quickly to introduce acceptable quality standards for bottled drinking water to allay public fears about contamination from deteriorating air and water quality as well as polluting industries.
These standards were called for by the Clean Air Act Amendments more than 20 years ago and level the playing field for the many utilities that have already invested in modern mercury pollution control technologies.
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