Case Study: Harris Vs. Lily Transportation

The FLSA today still follows the same principles as it did in the 1930’s, it just has a few changes and additives. Today the FLSA has set the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour. The old FLSA overtime eligibility pay was a yearly salary less than $23,660 but newly, you are eligible for overtime pay if you make less than $47,476 a year. The original FLSA stated that to earn overtime commision, you had to work over thirty-five to forty hours in a week but now the law is strictly over forty hours a week.

On Saturday, June 25, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed 121 bills. Among these bills was a landmark law in the United States’ social and economic development—Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) or otherwise known as the Wages and Hours Bill. This new law created a maximum forty-four hour workweek, guaranteed “time-and-a-half” for overtime hours in certain jobs, banned oppressive child labor, and established the nation’s first minimum wage. By definition, a minimum wage is the lowest wage permitted by law or by a special agreement (such as one with a labor union). Throughout the years, the minimum wage has been a central debate topic for the socioeconomic world and now in 2014, the debate has broken through the surface once

Both examples proved that transportation was an important factor for the decision, but in some counties and states that wasn't the case. Many had transportation development, but due to a lacking of large numbers and percentages within the other factors, they decided to not support the secession. As states as a whole, all of the states that supported the secession had some means of transportation. Due to the fact that states and counties want to be connected to the larger world economy, effective transportation,was very important. If the state decided to secede without that factor, it would have failed to produce enough economical

The ruling of the California Court of Appeals invalidated the portion of California’s Industrial Welfare Commission or IWC Wage Order No. 5. This particular portion allows non-exempt health care employees to waive their second meal break in shifts that are over 12 hours. It was seen as a landmark decision

With the WAGE Act, instead of or in addition to filing a complaint with the NLRB, employees or unions would be allowed to file a private right of action in courts and be entitled to any remedies available under the NLRA and if successful also receive reasonable attorneys’ fees. One of the criticisms with a failed predecessor of the WAGE Act, the Labor Law Reform Act in 1978, was that it would create increased filings of complaints, therefore allowing employees to harass employers costing time, money, and energy. With employees and unions being able to file suit for violations of the NLRA this same argument could be leveled here, that employees and unions will be extremely litigious and the number of cases filed against employers will increase thereby increasing costs, time spent on litigation, and flood the court systems with endless litigation that could make the courts run less efficiently. Therefore, it is likely that this argument against the WAGE Act will surface once debate on the bill picks up and knowledge of the act becomes more

In May 2016, President Obama and Secretary Perez announced The Fair Labor Standards Act, intended to require employers to compensate employees for overtime. The FLSA was designed to extend overtime protections to

The appellants' understanding about the statute is that they (as employees) were protected by the carve-out pre-existence jurisdictions that excluded workers' involvement in handling any forms of either animal and/or vegetable life that is aquatic, further confusing the guidelines for Maine's exemptions of overtime law. Their understanding was that this carve-out could have been justifiably applicable to workers that have been "employ[ed] in loading, unloading or packing…for shipment or in propagating, processing (other than canning), marketing, freezing, curing, storing or distributing various forms of aquatic forms of animal and/or vegetable life.” On the other hand, Oakhurst asserts that the legislative history should protect against any deliberate effects that can cause distortion under the overtime law. It argues that it's of essence that employer must implement rightful decisions towards ensuring that perishable food doesn't spoil. Therefore, the subject of exemplification from Maine's overtime law shouldn't be an

--Federal law requires that employers pay a minimum wage and pay overtime, although some believe that the concept of a living wage is the more ethical standard.  Explain and defend your position on whether you agree or disagree.

Appellant, Mr. Bubbenmayer was working at BOCA BARGOONS OF MELBOURNE as a “manager” until the time his employment with appellee ended. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act he should have been paid at one-and-a-half-times his regular hourly rate for all hours in excess of forty (40) per week but appellee, Boca Bargoons of Melbourne wrongfully misclassified Appelant, Chris Bubbenmayer as overtime exempt

The Fair Labor Standards Act is a United States law that is intended to protect workers against certain unfair pay practices or work regulations. The Fair Labor Standards Act sets out various labor regulations regarding interstate commerce employments, which includes minimum wages, limitations on child labor, and minimum wages. The FLSA also applies to employees who are employed by an employer and those who are engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. In addition, the FLSA also elaborates more on the rules concerning whether employees are non exempt or exempt from FLSA overtime regulations. According to Smith (2017), “the FLSA requires overtime to be paid at 1.5 times the regular hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours during seven day work week”.

This case has been the most interesting one so far for me because I can one day be placed in a situation like Usher Transport. Paul Black was terminated from the company as a truck driver. He later applied for another position with Landstar where he permitted his new potential employer, Landstar, to contact previous employers concerning his employment history. Usher Transport returns the form and unfortunately, Landstar declines to hire Paul Black (Black v. Usher Transport, 2011)

In 1892 Federal Government adopt an 8 hour workday and other wages standard for employee. In 1903 Congress create the U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor. In 1933 Congress passes the National Industrial Recovery Act covering private sector wage hour (Congressional Digest). “On Saturday, June 25, 1938, to avoid pocket vetoes 9 days after Congress had adjourned, President

Total annual purchases were approximately $250, and about $60 million to be sourced through Materials Department

Harmony in the workplace between the employees and management is crucial to the productivity of a company. Most of the time employees and management are able to work cohesively to accomplish common goals; however, this relationship can become contentious as conflicts arise between the employees' desire for better benefits and the company's desire to adhere to their budget. Due to this delicate nature of the employee-management relationship, labor unions have been put in place to negotiate benefits and work conditions on behalf of the employees. In the case of the sample company negotiating pay rates, the union has proposed a change in the overtime payment system that would require the employer to pay time-and-a-half for a minimum of two hours of overtime even if the employee did not work two hours of overtime. This is a divergence from the previous overtime policy that required the employer to pay time-and-a-half only for the amount of time the employees actually worked overtime.

The use of the transportation system has made life in the world simpler, since we depend on transportation to transport us to and from our daily operations. Today, in this world we can go anywhere we choose to, due to how transportation has evolved over the years starting from the wheel. Transportation has made the world a very comfortable to live in, but sometimes as humans we sometimes forget to appreciate the small things in life like transportation. Our time in life is very valuable, and transportation helps supports our valuable time by transporting us to different places at a faster speed. If transportation decided to abruptly come to an end, the world would end up in chaos, because without transportation this world would be a difficult place to live in. If people have no means of transporting them themselves in this world, how would they keep their job and find a job, in order to put food on the table for themselves and their families. If people in this world today, just all of sudden get sick, how would they be able to transport themselves to the hospital. If there is no transportation how people go into stores in buy food, clothes, medicine, and other necessary items that help them sustain health. Transportation is one of the reason, why so many of us have food on our refrigerator and tables at night and clothes on our back. In this world today, there are many sick children in this world that need our support, and transportation is one of the