The Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) affects everyone, not just in Human Resources. This FLSA was established to help define jobs, pay a minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, and equal pay for equal work. As workforce progressed so does the FLSA, with the updates for minimum wage, new job coverages and any issues that happen in the workforce. The FLSA is in place to protect the employee against employers that have a motive to cheat or unknowing not pay his employees. The workforce had to make sure that everyone was protected and to make sure that everyone had a fair wage. Even by covering all of these categories, the FLSA is still very vague. Fair Labor Standard Act passed in 1938 which established minimum wage to be paid, regulated child labor and overtime pay with the intent was actually to discourage overtime and promote full employment during the Depression Recovery Era. Based on NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act) to help with working conditions, and combined with the Walsh-Healy Act, which set a standard wage for a government contractor and a record that …show more content…
It also has given us the ability to be flexible with hours, maternity leave, and comp-time. Though it has it flaws, I’m glad that the FLSA is in place but it needs to be updated. I think that it has to look at the job market more to make it the distinction more uniformed. There are a lot more jobs out in the market that are not covered and I think it would be worthwhile revisiting. I would think you should see more of a ladder formation, like for this job you get paid this because you have a little more experience or education. It almost seems like regardless of how much education you have, you can still be non-exempt. Minimum wage lacking behind the growth of standard of living. I think minimum wage should take a family out of poverty