Number: RL34510
Title: The Fair Labor Standards Act: Continuing Issues in the Debate
Authors: William G. Whittaker, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: Under the FLSA, an increase in the minimum wage has been the element around which other aspects of the act have clustered. It was often the vehicle for consideration of overtime pay, child labor, industrial homework, and similar issues that are a part of the FLSA. The federal minimum wage, now having been raised, may, perhaps, be dormant for a time. This could provide an opportunity, absent a more sustained pressure for a new rate increase, to examine the basic concept of the Fair Labor Standards Act and its various component parts. This report discusses a few of the topics that, collectively, make up the FLSA.
Pages: 30
Date: May 28, 2008