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Legal Implications for Human Resource Management

MGT 516

Module 1 CASE

MGT 516 CASE 1- M.Joiner

In your opinion, do you think that both of these laws are as effective today as they were at the time they were passed? What recommendations would you make to update and improve both laws?

The Fair Labor Standards have changed tremendous since it

have been implemented. It has implemented changes and

benefits to help the working society. This new act has

proven to be a success to our working society with these

guidelines that have been set by the Fair Labor standards.

Fair Labor Standards is very effective today, although the

need for revision to meet the 21st century is a working

progress.

The FLSA dates back to 1938, and in many areas has had

little to no update since that time. It was originally

enacted in 1938 during the Depression and applied only to

private sector employees. It establishes a nationwide

minimum wage, and with limited exceptions requires that all

non-exempt employees be paid overtime at the rate of one

and a half times the employee's regular rate of pay for all

hours worked in excess of forty in a given seven day

work week. In recent years, it has been acknowledged that

many of the Act's provisions meet neither the current needs

or desires of employers or employees. However, the

political reality of making changes to this fundamental

wage-hour law has been difficult. The U.S. Department of

Labor had to publish a proposal to modernize its 50-year-

old regulations defining laws and regulation of the Fair

Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Those proposed changes include

revising laws and regulations to better correspond to 21st

century workplace realities.

At a conference on "Workplace of the Future," also held in

Washington, Victoria Lipnic, Assistant Secretary of

Employment Standards at the Department