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Employment Milestone

On this day in 1940 provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. s 201 et seq) went into effect requiring employers to pay time-and-and-half for work in excess of 40 hours per week.

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This was written by David Randall. Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006, at 7:06 am. Filed under Employment. Tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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  1. ppham wrote:

    This is an important milestone for poor college kids during the summer holiday, single parents, and hard working folks trying to survive in this world. Hurray for the 1940 provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

    Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 2:00 am | Permalink

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