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Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

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Trying To Give Private Sector Employees A Break: Congress's Efforts To Amend The Fair Labor Standards Act, Shawn D. Vance Jan 2002

Trying To Give Private Sector Employees A Break: Congress's Efforts To Amend The Fair Labor Standards Act, Shawn D. Vance

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Revitalizing The Flsa, Scott D. Miller Jan 2001

Revitalizing The Flsa, Scott D. Miller

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Conceptions Of Fairness And The Fair Labor Standards Act, Seth D. Harris Jan 2000

Conceptions Of Fairness And The Fair Labor Standards Act, Seth D. Harris

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

This article uses the history of the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage provisions to examine how statutes that benefit interests that are comparatively weak in the political market become law. The article tracks the history of the American debate over fairness in wages beginning with the demise of slavery through the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 in search of an answer. The search yields two answers. The first answer is that bargaining power is dynamic, not static. The article discusses the socio-economic crises and effective political advocacy by living wage proponents that changed the political …


A Call For Bright-Lines To Fix The Fair Labor Standards Act, Robert D. Lipman, Allison Plesur, Joel Katz Jan 1994

A Call For Bright-Lines To Fix The Fair Labor Standards Act, Robert D. Lipman, Allison Plesur, Joel Katz

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

No abstract provided.